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Pumpkin’s jaw drops as Mama June suggests giving up daughter Honey Boo Boo, 16, for ADOPTION in explosive finale fight
LAURYN 'Pumpkin' Efird's jaw dropped after Mame June Shannon suggested giving up her daughter Alana 'Honey Boo Boo' Thompson for adoption in an explosive season finale fight.
The Sun obtained an exclusive clip from the upcoming season finale of Mama June: Road to Redemption, airing Friday on WeTV, which showed a nasty fight between Pumpkin and her mother.
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In the video, the 42-year-old reality star mother, Mama June, insisted she thought their meeting with Pumpkin and Pumpkin's attorney was about giving her youngest daughter Alana, 16, up for adoption.
The conversation, which was initially centered around June paying Pumpkin child support for Alana, quickly took a dark turn.
The TV star matriarch suggested that she could pay her daughter Pumpkin, 22, "a few hundred dollars a month" in child support for the care she provides for her sister Alana.
Pumpkin, who gave birth to twins in May, doubling the number of children in her home- not including Alana- looked completely in shock and said to her mother: "Alana is about to graduate school."
Pumpkin's attorney jumped in and said "When you do a custody case, obviously child support is an issue in the custody case."
June then said: "But if you're signing away your rights..." to which Pumpkin clarified this was about custody, not adoption.
The matriarch then added she thought the meeting was about her signing away her rights to Alana.
"If you signed over your rights that would mean that Pumpkin would be adopting her," the lawyer explained to June.
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"Right, That's what I thought this was," June responded.
Pumpkin lashed out: "No b***. Now you're playing stupid."
The mom-of-four looked absolutely stunned as June responded: "No, I did honestly, I'm not playing stupid. Like I'm being honest.
Pumpkin asks her mother: "That's what I'm asking, would you rather sign your rights over for Alana?," and June responded: "That's what I thought we were doing."
In a confessional, an appalled and upset Pumpkin said: "I can't even believe the words come out of Mama's mouth, but the fact that she would rather me adopt Alana and her be physically mine and never yours again - you never have no responsibility over her - than give me some type of money.
"Make it make sense! Because you literally blow money 24/7 on this new man, some 24-year-old guy, Geno, Sugar Bear.
"You blow all this money on these men and you refuse to give me money for your child that I've been taking care of for four years now. Can you say piece of s***?"
While the conversation seemed to be a prelude to an actual in-court determination, Pumpkin was rewarded full custody of Alana.
FULL CUSTODY
The Sun exclusively reported last month that Pumpkin was awarded full custody of Alana.
In the final order issued in April 2022, the judge wrote that Lauryn "has had guardianship of the minor child since April 29, 2019.
"It is in the best interest of the child that the plaintiff is awarded sole custody."
The judge ordered June to pay $800 in monthly child support to Lauryn, beginning on May 1, 2022, and to continue on the 1st of every month until Alana turns 18.
Lauryn now has the right to make the day-to-day care decisions for Alana, and she has the sole decision-making authority for major decisions.
Additionally, the 22-year-old mother-of-four will have the discretion to allow "visitation between the defendant [June] and the minor [Alana]."
In the ruling, the judge noted that both parties had agreed to the arrangement outlined in the document.
The young mother also just gave birth to twins in May, as The Sun first reported.
In addition to raising Alana and her newborn babies, Lauryn is also a mom to a son Bentley, one, and a daughter Ella, four, with her husband, Josh Efird, 25.
ADDICTION BATTLE
June's battle with drugs spiraled out of control and came to a head when she was arrested on drug possession charges in March of 2019 along with her boyfriend at the time, Geno Doak, 46.
Lauryn was awarded temporary guardianship over Alana in August of 2019, with permission from Alana's father, Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson.
In her drug addiction, June sold the family's Georgia home at a loss for fast cash in October 2019.
June now claims to be nearly two years sober.
In other big news for June's family, The Sun exclusively reported earlier this week that the reality TV personality tied the knot with her new boyfriend Justin Stroud in a secret courthouse ceremony in March.
A clerk confirmed to The Sun that the WeTV star and her new man, 34, quietly tied the knot at a Georgia courthouse on March 23.
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June and Justin had been dating for six months before saying, "I do."
The couple sparked rumors of an engagement after they shopped for rings together at an Alabama jewelry store in March.
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