Mama June regrets spending $1M on cocaine: ‘Stupidest factor I’ve finished’
“Mama June” Shannon regrets her large boo-boo.
The fact TV celeb is getting actual about her drug habit, claiming the “stupidest factor” she’s ever finished was spend greater than $1 million on medication.
“I don’t keep in mind, like, loads of that timeframe. Simply bits and items and stuff,” the now three years sober “Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star stated of her years battling habit in an interview with the Daily Mail. “However the largest, stupidest factor I’ve finished is spend that a lot cash on medication.”
She has admitted to changing into an addict throughout her relationship with then-boyfriend Geno Doak, and the couple was arrested in March 2019 for felony drug possession in Alabama.
They pleaded not responsible to possessing crack cocaine that October, and the pair later attended rehab earlier than finally breaking up in September 2021.
Shannon advised the Every day Mail that the habit principally consisted of snorting cocaine till it broken her imaginative and prescient and she or he switched to smoking crack.
The 43-year-old stated she remembered saying to herself on the peak of her substance abuse: “Woman, what the hell are you doing spending all that rattling cash?
“I say that lots to my husband [Justin ‘Smallz’ Stroud],” she continued. “I’d be like, ‘Man, why within the hell did I blow all that cash?’ I’m at all times excited about that.”
Shannon claimed to have spent as much as $3,000 a day on medication throughout her habit.
“I take into consideration loads of issues I might do with that cash,” Shannon admitted. “My husband tells me on a regular basis that I can’t dwell on it.”
Shannon stated she sometimes nonetheless feels unhealthy about herself for the issues she did in her darkest days.
“Now I’ve gone again to being like penny-pinching, and Justin tells me I’m a cash hoarder,” she added.
Throughout her habit, Shannon signed over full custody of her youngest daughter, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, now 17, to her different daughter, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird, 23, and Lauryn’s husband, Joshua Efird.
Earlier this week, Shannon solely told Page Six in regards to the surprisingly low price ticket of her “extravagant” Florida wedding ceremony to Stroud.
“And I’ll inform you like this, we paid $13,000. No lie,” she stated whereas selling her WE television collection “Mama June: Household Disaster.”
“We had solely 38 individuals at our wedding ceremony, and it was his household and my household solely,” Shannon shared. “And we had a tremendous wedding ceremony designer and she or he put collectively an extravagant wedding ceremony that regarded like I paid $50,000.”