E! News had the first exclusive interview with Mama June since the story broke that she’s dating the man who molested her daughter. It was actually conducted by paparazzi outside her home, so that sort-of explains why she was smiling and laughing, but I still found it incredibly inappropriate and offensive. It was a glaring example of poor crisis management. (Excuse the quality of these photos, they’re just pictures I took from my TV.)
I don’t want to recap this at all, but I should give some background. Earlier this year, the man whom Mama June used to date got out of prison for a ten year sentence for molesting her daughter, Anna, now 20. (Some reports claim that the perp, Mark McDaniel, was jailed for molesting Anna. Other outlets state that he was convicted of molesting another little girl. Court documents state that he molested Anna, who has given her permission to be named as the victim. It’s possible there were more victims.)
Around the time that McDaniel was released, June split with her husband, Sugar Bear. June’s daughter, Anna, told the press earlier this week that her mother promised her that she was not dating McDaniel, but that she was hearing from other sources that was the case. Anna stated that McDaniel sexually abused her when she was a child of just 8 and that when she told her mother about the abuse, June refused to believe her and asked her “why would you do this to me?’” Anna said “Mama, he did that to me and I can’t do anything about it. You were never there to see it you were always at work.” Anna has repeatedly said that she feels betrayed and hurt by her mother continuing to see McDaniel. That just makes my heart break for her.
We know that June bought a car for McDaniel, and has been photographed with him several times in the past few months. June has young daughters that are around this convicted pedophile, including Alana (Honey Boo Boo), 9, and Lauryn (Pumpkin), 14. In fact Pumpkin may have witnessed the abuse of her older sister, according to the disturbing documents in McDaniel’s case. So what did June say when she finally decided to comment? She laughed, joked around and repeatedly said “that will all come out.”
Do you have like, an agent
[laughs] I am the agent. Whatever.How is Honey Boo Boo
As a family, we’re handling what happened privatelyHave you talked to Anna lately
I talk to all my kidsDo you want to say anything to the people who say ‘you’re crazy and how can you let your child around that man’
No, but that will all come out.Are you sad that the show is cancelled
I mean, you’ve been around for a while. I will miss smiles of people. [To the paparazzi] I will miss you. Can’t say anything bad about the show, can’t say anything bad about TLC.Has she talked to Mark lately
No. That will all come out. I don’t want to say anything about anything.A lot of people who love you say you would never be so foolish as to let that man around your children
Well let me say, that is all going to come out.We are handling this as a family matter. I love my family. The [unintelligible]… my kids are my number one priority.
[From E! News, aired 10-29-14]
E! also revealed that June is being guarded by a bodyguard hired by TLC, but that the bodyguard will only be there for a week. TLC is also offering the children tutoring and therapy, but it’s unclear if June will take them up on their offer. Throughout this all Alana’s dad, Sugar Bear, has remained quiet. It’s unknown whether he will fight for custody of Alana, his daughter with June. TMZ reports that it’s unlikely that Sugar Bear will try for custody as he doesn’t have his own place and is not “equipped to take custody of the 9-year-old.” A source tells E! that Sugar Bear “hasn’t decided yet if he is going to try for full custody of Alana, but he is weighing his options.” E! read a statement from a source close to Sugar Bear stating that he is “torn apart by this. He is very concerned for Alana and the girls and he has no idea what the hell June is thinking right now.”
A source also tells E! News that “Mama June’s daughter Pumpkin looks to Mark as a father because he raised her from a few months old to five. Alana only likes Mark because Pumpkin likes him, but her older sister Chubs is not a fan.”
Given how many times June said “it will all come out,” it’s possible she’s planning a tell all interview soon. I doubt she’ll come clean about dating that excuse for a human being who so horribly violated her child. I also doubt she’ll lose custody of Alana, sadly. As we’ve heard, McDaniel is allowed to be around kids now. It’s up to family and friends to protect children against predators, and we’ve seen what a piss poor job June has done. I just hope Sugar Bear steps up. He was seen out with June and Alana yesterday so it’s likely he’s trying to keep an eye on her.
photo credit: E! WENN.com and FameFlynet
This woman is not very bright.
I’ve tried not to read too much about this because it’s all so sad and twisted, but I wanted to see if she had anything profound to say. Obviously not.
I actually made the comment sincerely. I think she lacks critical thinking skills and is not very bright. This adds another dimension to the exploitation I see surrounding this entire ugly situation. She was being exploited by TLC and probably the sex offender. I think she doesn’t ‘get it’ to any real degree. Whether it is ignorance or lack of intelligence, I can’t say.
And why is a child sex offender permitted to be around children? What kind of f*cked up laws are at work here?
Maybe willful ignorance. Laughing while her daughter is crying in another interview. It’s all just disturbing. Every aspect of it.
I don’t mean to be indelicate here, or maybe I do. Bluntly, is there a possibility that she is just plain stupid?
@kiddo, I wondered about the same thing also – he being allowed around children. I know a guy (and I in no way condone what he did) who slept with a 17 yr old, had gone to prison for it and is not allowed to be around children. The laws on Georgia must be screwed up. It is sad that she would put her children in a situation where they may be molested.
Thanks swack. I think that there is a cultural undertone to this woman’s ignorance.
Laws are a reflection of society, or at least to some extent.
@kiddo
Of course she could be just plain old stupid. If she is, then I agree with you that TLC is just as much to blame. They sat and let Kate Gosselin mess her kids up. Kate’s kids even call her ass out on tv.
@Kiddo: Yes.
The major issue now for me is, what in hell is going on in that state, and why aren’t the laws being changed, like YESTERDAY, so that any convicted child sex predator is not allowed to be around children in any capacity. It sounds like this bass ackwards gross state they live in, has ONLY decreed he stay away from the child victim that sent him to prison, AS IF, any other vulnerable children would be safe in his presence. I mean just what does that effed up law imply? That he only had ‘feelings,’ for the ONE 8 year old, and that he won’t molest/rape other children??!! It’s completely obscene and batshit. Also, I think Mama June’s double digit IQ must be akin to a mentally handicapped person’s – how is it she isn’t completely remorseful? I have a feeling she’s negotiating with Dr.Phil. Tips for TLC: give Anna her own show, or better yet just a hefty check, a great job and a new apt far far away from these grostesque pieces of ish, then give Alana(HoneyBB) and the other children trusts that only THEY have access to once they are 18. Then wash their hands of the whole dang mess.
No, I refuse to see her as just plain stupid. Selfish, narcissistic, lack of priorities, yes. But I’ve been around alot of ignorant and uneducated people who still have parental instincts and would never let this happen, let alone laugh as one of their children cry in an interview about it. She is missing something, for sure. But like I’ve said before regarding mothers who hook up with molesters, stay with them, or get back with them, she isn’t incapable of learning. There’s nothing wrong with her neurons. She’s just a horrible person who cares about her own wants and needs before her children’s. Don’t let her off the hook by giving the benefit of a doubt that she’s just dumb. It’s way more than that. And, you offend the truly dumb who still wouldn’t allow a perv around their kids.
She can be all of the above stupid, selfish, narcissistic, suffering from her own childhood abuse. I think it is all these things happening together.
Some women put men above their children. He gets the big piece, while the child starves. He gets to spank the child (most often not his biologically). Some women need a man in their lives, regardless how he treats her or her children. I’ve seen it way too often, sadly.
I think she was abused too. She’s too caviler about this. Something tells me that she thinks this is normal behavior.
The laws surrounding this situation give credence to this mindset, if what other people have written is true. What type of mentality does it take, culturally, for legislature to allow a convicted child sex offender to legally be in the presence of children? Most especially children who have made claims to abuse by this offender specifically?
Right on point FingerBinger.
I almost want to say that I read somewhere a long time ago that Mama June was once molested as a kid. But maybe I making this up in my mind. Sometimes if people don’t get therapy or get help dealing with what happened to them, they are almost attracted to perps. Crazy but sometimes it happens. Wouldn’t be surprised if that is the situation here.
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. It’s almost like ‘normal’ for her and we are all just overreacting.
She’s a fool. Come on, the woman has issues. Likely abused herself and too stupid to break the cycle.
This woman is not stupid. She has been able to milk a lot of $$ out of her children/situation (granted the public who bought into this “honey boo boo” BS is at fault) and the fact that she is clever enough to do this makes the entire situation all the worse. There are some really bad people out there and she seems to fall into that category (probably not abused just indifferent).
What happened with McDaniel, apparently, is that when he was caught, the laws in Georgia regarding child sexual assault were much more lax than they are now. In fact, soon after he was sentenced, Georgia made their laws much more strict. However, since he was convicted under the more lenient laws, they had to stick to those guidelines.
Not saying it’s right, and I’m actually appalled that only 10 years ago, Georgia had such lenient laws for such crimes, but that’s the judicial system for you.
Thanks.
My god. I am praying for a lightning bolt and June’s head to become acquainted.
Nicer prayer then I have running through my skull…
This isn’t ‘county thinking’, this isn’t ‘redneck obliviousness’ this isn’t ‘trailerpark mindset’ – this (if true) is pure unadulterated evil. To date a man who molested a child is insane and wrong. To date the man who molested HER DAUGHTER? Is ‘go the f^#$ to hell, do not pass go, do not collect your soul – too late anyway, she checked that with her brain and her conscience – do not get another turn. Just go.
I’m sorry, I’ve tried to not read these articles, but I slipped at last and now I just wanna go either hit something repeatedly (and here in the move my husband hasn’t hug the weight bag yet!) or start screaming bloody murder. To be molested as a child, to go to your parents, to go to adults and NOT be believed is just… hell. A hell in your head you never fully drop. Been there, the tshirt is tight but sadly still fits. And good gosh do I need to get get a drink and fall into a YouTube hole for a bit…
I am so with you!!! I’ve seen what child abuse does to the adult women devastated by its horror. I’ve seen what happens to an adult woman who blocked it out only to have it rush over her like a flood decades later. If I were “Mama June,” that mother flocker would have to sleep armed with a guard outside his freaking door…..seriously. I am not sure I would care if I spent the rest of my life behind bars if it meant that the monster who took my baby’s childhood away was D.E.A.D. I’m not Christian enough, man, not Christian enough
Nice to see ya, Jenna! You are perfectly eloquent in your post. This is a truly nauseating, rage inducing situation. I am praying that someone in the family is decent, and steps up and asks for custody. I feel that these kids (like so many others) are in immediate danger. And if one person posts here that child molesters can be “fixed”, well…only in one way. They NEVER stop. Never.
Thank you! I know plenty of trash and they aren’t going to let some child molestor around their kids.
I tend to think people who live in metropolitan areas believe this is cultural or lack of education issue. It is not. This can happen anywhere. Women defend abusers all over the world.
This Ain’t Country
Hey Kri, yeah.. been a bit in the wind lately both here online and frankly in real life. We’re in the process of moving, and even more stressful – moving with mother in law crazy pants. Found a gorgeous place with an inlaw suite… only way it really works though is the massive studio space I now have in the backyard. But between condensing my hubs & I’s life down to move it all AND move a woman who has 42 years of crap to mash down into one very cute (But tiny, to be honest – but as 99% of the time she doesn’t even leave her bed, it’s perfect for her) means for a very scattered Jenna! Thanks for the kind words and the hello (right back at ya m’dear!) – and you are so right. I’m sorry. This is a sickness of the soul (no matter the faith or even total absence of need for faith – ‘ello to my atheist friends. ~waves and smiles with no irony~) that in 95% of the situation can’t be cured. Sorry, I just don’t believe it can. You touch a child, out of the gene pool, no questions, no arguments, no therapy. You are done. And for that 5%? Even then – they get NO CONTACT with the child they nearly destroyed. None. No getting to claim ‘just for closure’ (unless the child, as an adult, wants it. Otherwise? Nope, don’t care what the abuser’s therapist says, the needs of a sexual predator have NO value. None. I’d rather let a rabid dog play fetch with my kid then have them deal with that kind of terror.), no ‘I just want to apologize’, nothing. That 5% walks away and never allows their shadow to bother the child or the family again.
It’s a truly rough day when I find myself thinking “You know, the fact my abusive was found with the body of more then one young girl on his land really DOES make me a pretty lucky girl in a horribly messed up way”…. while still having days when I have to fight back the monsters in my closet that try to whisper that in some ways, the ones that died and are at peace had a cleaner peace…. and to wonder if their parents were able to grieve cleaner then I can because they have all the answers and can let their child go while I still carry that little girl I was around in my head.
Wow is this now a bad night to have to have me at the new house and my husband at the old and only my cat to stay the monsters of the past outta my head. I have a bad feeling I’ll be up the night checking locks, twitching curtains and even making sure the 9mm is loaded and in it’s safe in case something got into the house with me. (And before anyone reads this and panics – I was trained, I work security, it stays locked up safely and I am not writing this as a horrible prelude to something spectacularly stupid. My life now is amazing and a blessing, I’m just aware that tonight the ichor that still holds part of my past will have me nervously twitching at noises and having to keep the lights on, the music loud and a whole lot of silly nonsense blaring at me to keep me from a panic attack… which I know is stupid as it’s been almost 2 decades. I just have to wonder why I can manage better being raped in college and move through THAT… but the molestation of my childhood seems a harder ghost to lay to rest.)
Hahaha; figuratively or literally???
I, myself, hope for the latter.
I went on a rant a few days ago, so all I’ll say is, this woman is a wack job.
Here’s a piece of advice June, quit trying to find a man to keep you company and help raising YOUR OWN kids. Because you open your door to slimballs. I also hope that she has been sterilized, because clearly she can’t take care of her kids.
Last night ET ran a preview of their interview with Anna, and it was terrible. She was breaking down and hugging the reporter and generally in a huge amount of pain. I actually teared up watching it, it was so bad. I actually pray for the poor child that she can know some peace and get whatever she needs to overcome this. How can her mother laugh and joke and seem okay when it is very clear that her daughter – her flesh and blood – is suffering so greatly because of this, and her mother is the cause of it? I wish the media would ignore June and her family and spend all their energy towards helping Anna and letting her speak out. She should be the priority, and giving June a platform now is disgusting. I don’t particularly believe in Hell, and right now is one of the times I wish I did.
The effects of abuse can linger on for generations. It changes who you are, how you see things and how you interact with others. The pain is always there and for your own mother to be so dismissive, is continuing the cycle of abuse. Her mother is assaulting her all over again.
That’s what makes it so sad. Anna is being victimized all over again by this. Her mother is laughing it up with photographers while she suffers and cries on another network. The abuse victims I know who’ve recovered best are always the ones who benefitted from a strong support network of family and friends and communities that told them from the beginning that it was not their fault and that they would always be believed and supported. That is generally recognized as the key to a successful recovery from this stuff. Anna does not have that. She is largely alone. At least by going public, she can share this pain and people can rally around her and hopefully, that helps. But she still has to go without the support of the people who should be there most, and that pain probably cannot be allieviated.
I think her mom wants to crush Anna for crossing her & the easiest way to cut deep is to be nonchalant & dismissive of her daughter’s anguish. Hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is.
@Falkor,
I think you are right. The mother’s behavior screams vindictiveness since the reporting of abuse more than a decade ago. And to assign the nickname, ‘Chubs’?
That’s so mean on top of the atrociousness & horror of it all.
worse yet, is the probability that June is guilting Anna. June will not, I repeat, will not accept responsibility on any level or she never would have hooked up with this creep again. Instead she will blame Anna for the judgement of and outcry targeted at June. That’s what these mothers do. I use the term mother loosely.
I want to say, too, that these reality shows that exploit dysfunctional families need to stop and and the stopping starts with us – by no longer watching, showing interest, or supporting the shows in any way. I’m sure TLC is having a hay-day and raking in the money from all of this and that is a sick thing. It might be entertaining to watch train wrecks – fascinating on some level even – but look what happens. These kinds of people are given money like they’ve never seen before, put on a pedestal and don’t realize they’re neuvo riche because we enjoy their trashiness and mock them. Real World, Road Rules were different because it was all new and there was very little script. It was for all intense purposes reality. These newer shows, though, are strictly exploitation for amusement. There’s nothing interesting. They’re just dysfunctional to the point of amazement, but they shouldn’t have fan bases and be supported.
Please stop calling her “Mama June.” The time for affectionate nicknames is over. Puleease.
She’s not even a mother to her own kids much less some kind of “America’s mom” figure.
Exactly my first reaction–she is no kind of “Mama”.
You can call her Monster June please! She is no mother!
this story like this woman is just VILE
Ever since Joel McHale referred to her as the “Human Thumb” I can’t get that out of my head.
I used to think that “Human Thumb” was funny, but a little mean. That was when I was still sipping the “disgusting, but happy and loving family” Kool Aid a little bit. Now, there is no insult too vile. She is stupid, very sick, and very, very dangerous!
I’m eating lunch right now and I had to stop eating, even her picture disgusts me.
This sh*t is getting real. Their white trash ways were funny when it was all fun and games, but, June was pregnant and gave birth at 14. I suspect she is pretty mixed up emotionally and psychologically. She was 24 when this dude went to jail. 24 with, what? 3 kids? Im sure he was easily able to manipulate her, and continues to. She was just biding her time with Sugar Bear until he was out of jail. Her treatment of him on the show makes total sense now.
She needs help, desperately, before more of her kids suffer.
And before she has more kids because if she is still able and meets someone new, it’s pretty much a given she will have his baby because that’s what women like this think will solidify a relationship.
I’m probably going to be verbally attacked for saying this, but women like her don’t have many options. For some reason some women, like June, want a man they think is better looking than she is for a woman. We think, why not hook up with a fellow hefty man who’s kind and will love her for who she is? But news flash! She’s not a good person, she doesn’t want that kind of man, and even if she did, what decent man (no matter what he looked like) would have her. She wants a dude she thinks is sexy, even if it means sacrificing her childrens’ safety. I work in legal aid and domestic violence. I see it all the time.
You’ll get no attacks from me! It’s so sad what she is putting her kids through because of her own insecurity. Sugar Bear (I dont know his real name, ha!) treated her like a queen, and loved all her kids like his own. She was lucky to have him.
This isn’t surprising to me. A lot of women and families will permit or absorb former jail-birds, drug abusers and child abusers into their families for all sorts of reasons.
Then again, if the network is still involved there is probably some new series or episode twist in the works.
The network canceled the new season, even though it had already been filmed but not aired. They are offering counseling to the girls, too. I think that TLC is doing what they can to help the children. If they only cared about money, they’d be airing the current season.
But you could be correct. If they do a big special of some sort, we’ll know that they were more about the money at that point.
Yes, and I say kudos to TLC for doing that immediately. I’m not supporting or defending them or their programming, just acknowledging that at least in this case they took the appropriate action immediately.
I think in her mind now that he has finished jail he is a changed man.
I think what she thinks will ‘come out’ is that her daughter is lying and that the other victim is lying. She doesn’t believe that he’s guilty and that anything happened. That’s what will ‘come out’ eventually.
I agree, that is exactly what she is thinking. She is completely disregarding her daughter’s pain because she thinks she is lying. I am appalled at how little remorse she has for her child. At least feel sorry that you’re making her upset.. regardless of what you believe about what she is saying.
I can’t with this. I just can not.
I can’t even stand to look at her. Sadly, if they do a Whatever Happened To on Honey Boo Boo in twenty years, I suspect she’ll look and talk a whole lot like Mama J. Keep this trash off of television. TLC has offered the children counseling, to ease their conscience I guess…let’s hope they take it.
I think June was living vicariously through Alana during the pageant years and beyond. If there is not intervention, I think Alana will be an extension of June because that is how June has raised her thus far.
Yeah you’re probably right on that. Pageant mothers tend to get involved in an ad nauseam kind of way. I wasn’t trying to be insensitive to this kid, but in all likelihood, she will be like her mother. All this attention she is getting will soon be gone, then it’s her and the family all together….alone, no cameras, no audience. Millions of walking wounded out there, only a few have the “honor” of being dissected on reality television.
The cameras likely provided more structure in her life than her parents and that is some majorly sad shit.
I wish she would grow up to be the A.G. of Georgia
Of course her interview is inappropriate – this is the idiot who thinks it’s OK for her children to be around a predator. She wouldn’t know appropriate if it kicked her upside the head.
Ugh, this woman is such trash. I can’t understand how she could do this to her children. What kind of example is she setting for Alana??? Poor Anna. I can’t even imagine what she’s going through. I just hope that the media stops reporting on these people. This probably happens to families every day due to cycles of abuse, yet June is just fine and makes a conscious CHOICE to be with this man?!?!?!? ugh.
As a mom I have trouble comprehending June’s behavior …radar also has an article how pumpkin’s dad was a sex offender too…I just hope this woman does not resort to “Oh I was molested as a child, this stems from that” bs….I was abused as a child and I have done every damn thing I can to make sure no one lays a finger on my girls, infact I consider it my proudest achievement as a mom that no one has ever touched my girls inappropriately.
This creature in no way, shape or form is qualified to be a mother and seeing her laugh and smile makes me sick as hell…she just needs to go find a hole to crawl into and stay there, the rest of her life.
Right? This woman is giving her child to man to use in the sickest ways possible because she doesn’t want to be alone.
And here I am, reading articles on how to educate your children on their bodies, to empower them on ownership so they know to their depths that it belongs to them and only them. So careful who I let my family be around even though my little one has never been alone with anyone besides his dad or myself. (He is super little still) I don’t post his pics on Fb. I am so damn careful, because you have to be. On guard and aware at all times. Not in a psycho paranoid way. But in an educated way.
And then there is this repulsive poor excuse for a human being. Heartless, soulless monster.
Ugh. If she did anything more friendly than cross the street to spit on the man that molested her child it would be too much. What she is doing is disgusting. And now she’s going to, what? Keep lying about not being with that POS when TMZ shows them freaking house hunting together? So disgusting. So disturbing. And why didn’t that Sugar Bear dude get any money from doing the show?? How can he have no place to live or no TLC money to live off of for awhile?
I was wondering that, too. Why didn’t he have his own contract with TLC so that he’d get his own money?
My heart breaks for her daughter. I was sexually abused by my Mother’s second husband and when I told her she didn’t believe me, told me he was the love of her life and continued to be with him. Not having the person who should be your greatest protector (my father was already out of the picture) not believe you, or rather choose not to believe you, is incredibly painful. Worse is when mothers act like they are the victim “How could you do this to me?” It’s the ultimate betrayal to your child and believe me, that sexual abuse will impact her daughter’s life for a very long time (especially when her own daughter hits the same age she was when the abuse happened and she sees as an adult and mother, how incredibly young and innocent that age is!). I have no respect for this mother at all and I’m shocked the he is allowed to be around her younger kids. I read that because he served his time he can be, but I thought that once you’ve abused a child in that way you could not be trusted around them again. Regardless, the fact that she is putting her younger kids at risk just to be with this guy? And buying him expensive gifts? She should have given her oldest daughter that money for therapy.
Damn, I’m so, so sorry you went through that Suzy. I wish we could truly understand what force it is that makes a woman’s reasoning and care and loyalty of her children dissipate at the introduction of a man into the picture. Then maybe we could better fix the problem for future generations.
I can’t really imagine the extent of the pain and suffering you have dealt/are still dealing with today because of it and please know that my thoughts are with you.
Thanks Irishserra (and thanks for the hugs Lucky Charms). 🙂 I think there are some women who will always put themselves and their own happiness over their children and will tell themselves whatever they need to in order to justify it in their minds.
I also can’t imagine putting any of my kids at risk. But I lucked out with a wonderful husband and great kids and having gone through what I did with my own mother was a very good blueprint of who I did not want to be when I had my own children. So in that sense, it was positive. It seems like either victims either repeat the abuse on others or choose to be very vigilant about not letting anyone hurt their own children. I hope for her daughter’s sake, the Anna chooses to do the latter.
That’s horrible! Lots of hugs to you.
Very early in my marriage, my ex-husband and I got into an argument, and he pushed me against the wall. I told him that if he EVER laid a hand on me again, or even thought of touching one of the kids, I would take them and leave and he would never see us again. Protecting my children was my number one priority as their mom. I just cannot fathom the mindset or what a parent is thinking that they can choose an abuser over their own child/ren.
This woman is disgusting inside and out. Not that my image of her was very high with the pageant thing and Honey Boo Boo’s “Go Go Juice”.
I couldn’t agree with you more, Ana. I never could understand why this freak show and her family were revered so much. She’s unhealthy in every facet of her life from the physical to the emotional and perpetuating the tragedy in her own children.
“Pumpkin looks to Mark as a father because he raised her from a few months old to five.” Isn’t this also the daughter she’s never identified who the father is? My gut is telling me Mark McDaniel IS Pumpkin’s father. I have literally no evidence to support that theory, but I see enough clues to make me think it’s entirely possible. I just feel so sorry for those girls!
I think you may be right.
I agree. Given her feelings for him, the timeline and no other man stepping forward–it all adds up and fits her pattern.
I think it’s pretty clear that June is the one who grooms the kids for Chester. She is uneducated and uninterested, but she is also manipulative and devious. She’s not blind to the fact that her otp is a pedophile, she well knows it & she is complicit in these crimes against her own children. Calling her mama at this point is insulting.
100% agree. At this point, she is as guilty as he is. Worse to my mind actually. Because she is supposed to be their mother. Protect them above all else.
She made a pet of a monster and she (clearly quite happily) feeds it her children to make it stay, I can see how that might be worse in someone’s mind. Personally I think they’re on each other’s level, hard to say which is worse when they’re both doling out catastrophic damage.
Lo, and behold- I fully and completely agree with you once again.
June is a damn vicious snake
Just curious…why do these stories keep leaving out June’s other underaged daughter Jessica aka chubs??
No idea, but she’s calling Anna a liar, so I’m not fond of what she has to say. It’s probably because Alana is slightly older than Anna was when that monster molested her, and Jessica is much older, so probably isn’t in the correct age range for the pedophile.
Is Jessica also calling Anna a liar? I know June and Pumpkin are. I don’t think I read anything about Jessica.
Anyway, I can’t believe I ever stuck up for these people and thought they were decent people. Sick bastards! Infinite hugs and love for Anna.
instead of a tutor, TLC should help sugar bear or whatever his whacked out name is get an apartment. it’s not NYC, it cant cost much. then at least HBB would have a safe place (i assume) to go.
Does Sugar Bear work? Does Mama June work? I don’t watch this show so I have no idea if these people have actual jobs or not.
Sugar Bear did work, but I don’t know if he does now. Right before they broke up, he was reported to have gone into the hospital a few times due to unspecified brain ailments or something like that. I am not sure if he is still able to work. If he can’t, he would probably qualify for some form of disability. TLC reportedly paid for the trailer he currently lives in, but I’m not sure if they are assisting him in any other capacity.
Seriously, if TLC wants to help (and they should), they could easily do that. Hell, they could even do it and get some positive PR for a change.
I kind of have to wonder about Sugar Bear now, too. I read that McDaniels isn’t the first sex offender she’s dated, and she seems to have a thing for criminals. Ugh.
Sugar Bear did time, but not for anything involving sex. Years before he met June, he did time for robbing some campsites and starting a fire at one of them. So SB ain’t exactly a model parent or man, but at least he was never accused of anything improper with a child.
And God, isn’t it said that a person who was merely convicted of arson and robbery now looks so outstanding?
He didn’t start a fire at a campsite; he set a person on fire at a campsite. But no, he’s never been convicted of doing anything with children.
I just want to say that Anna is an incredibly brave and strong young woman to share her story with the world. And this June character is not a Mama in any way, shape or form. I feel like these ridiculous nicknames are taking away from the seriousness of the situation
Is anyone really surprised that these trashy people have some kind of awful, sordid back story? Why, again, was there a tv show featuring these people? Ick. I just don’t understand how they could have even been considered entertainment?
Richer people have all the same things going on. I may be even harder for the children to be believed when the molesters look like high class men.
Excellent point.
Done. Done with June. What could possibly come out that excuses this behavior. She’s delusional and endangering her children for her own selfish wants.
I cannot believe I am saying this, but I would have no problem with him kidnapping Alana away from June and the pedo. Since law enforcement won’t help (or can’t) and since the mother does not care, I think Sugar Bear needs to just take his daughter and run.
Not only does my heart break for those poor girls, I feel terrible for Sugar Bear. It must be so incredibly difficult for him to stand by helplessly as his girls are exposed to someone he knows could hurt them. Mama June has torn this family limb from limb and seems completely unapologetic about it.
Wow, Alanna is REALLY looking like her dad Sugar Bear in that last picture.
Yeah, she sure resembles Sugar and his brother Uncle Poodle. No questioning her who her father is.
I really tried not to judge these people on this show when it first debuted. Looks, lack of education and manners were all I saw. Everyone said, No, they really are a nice family, they care about each other, etc. Well, I am judging so hard right now and they are what I originally thought: ignorant rednecks. The children have been horrifically abused and traumatized from what appears to be just the continuation of a sad cycle of abuse. The whole thing just makes me ill.
Does anyone know the ages of this Mark guy, June, & the daughter that could be his? What I’m wondering is if the age difference is big enough that June won’t admit he’s the father because she was too young to be having a relationship with him?
I’m thinking Mark might turn out to be Lauren/Pumpkin’s dad. Maybe that’s what will “all come out”. After all Anna and Jessica’s dad’s are also sex offenders so it wouldn’t shock me one bit.
Okay.. So June was born in 79 and Mark in 61. He is 18 years older than she is and she was around 18 when Lauryn was born in 97. Both June & Lauryns birth months are in August, 4 days apart. She was barely 18 when she gave birth. Seems sketchy to me …
I think this horrible woman is jealous of Anna and blames Anna for being molested. It was reported that she said, “why are you doing this to me” or something like it when Anna came to her about the abuse at the time. I think in her twisted brain, June is punishing Anna for stealing her man. That is the vibe I get from this woman. But the good thing here is that the entire planet is on Anna’s side. There is literally no one, anywhere, who has left a comment supporting June. June is victimizing her daughter all over again, but in the end, I think Anna will end up with much more than June. I would not be surprised if TLC gave her a show or some monetary help.
Anna seems like a lovely person. She is certainly the only attractive person in that family. I hope TLC helps her out.
That’s standard for narcissists, who will tend to victimize whenever confronted with something that might deny them what they want. My mother did it with all of us by staying with a man she knew was physically and emotionally abusive. To this day her only concern is the abuse SHE suffered at his hands. She is utterly indifferent to her children and incapable of loving them or anyone else. I hope this is not true for Alana’s mom, but she displays many of the traits of NPD and it is notoriously difficult to treat even were she to seek treatment, which would be exceptionally rare.
“We are handling this as a family matter.”
This statement is what pedophiles and those who perpetrate incest count on and why their crimes often go unpunished. Invoking the family card seems to build a protective wall around the perpetrator, which further isolates the young victim. My stepfather raped me repeatedly when I was in junior high. I told my mother after the first time. Not only did she tell me she didn’t believe me in front of him, she also began leaving me alone with him to prove her loyalty to that monster! No other family members would help because it was a family matter between me and my mom.
My mother’s education level and socio-economic status were far superior to June’s before her TLC money rolled in–a woman’s motivation for sacrificing her children to monsters to maintain her own illusions of being loved/found attractive/having financial security are complex. I find mothers like this equally complicit in the abuse of their children.
I completely agree with you. There is nothing about this that’s a private or family matter. We know what happened. All June wants to do is invoke the “family matter” card because she thinks she can protect her pedophile boyfriend. Obviously the victim, who is ALSO June’s family (of course June likes to forget) clearly does not want this to be private, and June is choosing to support the wishes of the unrelated sex offender over the victim who is her own flesh and blood.
@Shannon, great point about the victim also being June’s family (the abuser isn’t even family in this case!). From my experience, the child victim is coerced into staying silent because “nothing is more important than family” and the lie that telling would be a betrayal.
Unfortunately, because almost everybody is a member of a family, people will refuse to intervene in domestic violence of all forms because “it’s their business” or “a private matter.” My fury about family violence and child exploitation prevents me from having any amount of sympathy for June. My own experience prevents me from empathizing even if she was abused.
Is there any way we can get supportive messages to Anna?
This whole family including the perv are hillbillies. They were lucky enough to get a “reality” show based on their grossness and should have socked away some good money. Seems like Mama June kicked poor Sugar Bear to the curb as soon as perv got out of prison. Most likely, she believes whatever story he told her vs. what her own daughter told her. Sure he told June he was being framed and it didn’t happen like that at all. Stupid, worthless Mom June believes him. TLC should offer Anna her own show and base it on her recovery from these village idiots perv and Mama. With a Mom like her who needs enemies? I always liked ole Sugar Bear. Now I feel sorry for him.
What do you really expect from a mother who puts her kid in beauty pageants? I’m not saying all Pageant Moms get with child molesters. But they aren’t exactly arbiters of good parenting.
Truly. And I wish the media would stop calling her “Mama.”
If true, this is simply indefensible.