Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell emotionally questioned why she has to ‘go through f***ing cancer’ in a new episode of Mama June: Family Crisis which aired on Friday.
The mother-of-two passed away in December 2023 at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with adrenal cancer – which progressed to stage four.
Mama June Shannon also believes that she should have custody of Anna’s daughter, Kaitlyn, 11, whose father is ‘not in the picture.’
However, June’s daughter, Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ expressed that she felt it was ‘weird’ that Anna would want June to have legal custody of Kaitlyn, stating she ‘didn’t even take care of’ Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’, 18.
June – who lost custody of Alana in 2022 – has been embroiled in drama with her youngest daughter after spending $35,000 of her own money which was earned when Alana competed on Dancing With The Stars in 2018.
Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell emotionally questioned why she has to ‘go through f***ing cancer ‘ in a new episode of Mama June : Family Crisis which aired on Friday
Mama June Shannon believes that she should have custody of Anna’s daughter, Kaitlyn, 11, whose father is ‘not in the picture’
Friday’s episode kicked off with June and her husband, Justin, arguing at Pumpkin’s house over June not paying Alana back.
While inside the kitchen, he demanded that she give Honey Boo Boo $30,000 – which prompted her to ask, ‘And then what? And then what happens?’
Justin yelled back, ‘It doesn’t matter!’ and later added that she needs to ‘make it right.’ However, June – who also hasn’t contributed to Alana’s college tuition – stood her ground about not paying Alana back, causing her husband to storm away.
One of the producers then asked her if the $30k is her daughter’s and should be ‘owed back’ to her. June heatedly replied: ‘I legally put the 20% in there. I don’t give a f***. Take me to court,’ and added that a portion of the $35k was spent on Alana.
Justin later cut in and said, ‘But as a parent, that’s what you do, June. Whether it’s successful or it’s not, that’s what you do as a parent. You invest in them to a certain extent.’
A few days later following the explosive argument, June was unpacking boxes when she received a call from daughter, Anna, who revealed that she was in pain and needed to be taken to the hospital.
‘I’m just hurting really bad, and I don’t – I don’t know what happened. And it’s been like this for the past couple of days, and it’s just gonna get worse,’ Anna could be heard saying over speaker phone.
June – who doesn’t have a driver’s license – explained that she would call her husband so they could take her to a hospital in Atlanta.
Friday’s episode kicked off with June and her husband, Justin, arguing at Pumpkin’s house over June not paying Alana back
Justin yelled back, ‘It doesn’t matter!’ and later added that she needs to ‘make it right.’ However, June stood her ground about not paying Alana back, causing her husband to storm away
One of the producers then asked her if the $30k is her daughter’s and should be ‘owed back’ to her. June heatedly replied: ‘I legally put the 20% in there. I don’t give a f***. Take me to court,’ and added that a portion of the $35k was spent on Alana
A few days later following the explosive argument, June was unpacking boxes when she received a call from daughter, Anna, who revealed that she was in pain and needed to be taken to the hospital
‘I’m just hurting really bad, and I don’t – I don’t know what happened. And it’s been like this for the past couple of days, and it’s just gonna get worse,’ Anna could be heard saying over speaker phone
Justin was spending time with his mother over lunch where he talked about June’s refusal to pay back Honey Boo Boo. ‘June lives on another planet sometimes. You took the girl’s money, it’s her money.’
The conversation, however, was interrupted when he received a call from June, which he chose not to answer. When she continued to call, he answered and was told that Anna needed to be taken to the hospital.
The trio went to the cancer urgent care and while waiting for the results of tests that were done, Anna could be seen laying in a hospital bed and still suffering in pain.
‘Why do I got to be in so much pain? Why do I have to go through f***ing cancer? Why? Sucks a**. I hate it so much,’ she emotionally expressed.
‘I’m f***ing 29-years-old. I should be f***ing sitting here living my life, playing with the girls, and I’m sitting here worrying, in the hospital in pain,’ Anna later added.
She later was told that she had a kidney infection and would be admitted as well as receive morphine every two hours to help with the pain.
Soon after, June went to visit Anna in the hospital but when the scans came back, it was discovered that her cancer had returned.
‘And we did find out, on the right side of her lung, she does have cancer in the wall tissues of her right lung. The tumors are, like, triple the size that they were,’ June explained during a confessional.
Justin was spending time with his mother over lunch where he talked about June’s refusal to pay back Honey Boo Boo. ‘June lives on another planet sometimes. You took the girl’s money, it’s her money’
The conversation, however, was interrupted when he received a call from June, which he chose not to answer. When she continued to call, he answered and was told that Anna needed to be taken to the hospital
The trio went to the cancer urgent care and while waiting for the results of tests that were done, Anna could be seen laying in a hospital bed and still suffering in pain
‘Why do I got to be in so much pain? Why do I have to go through f***ing cancer? Why? Sucks a**. I hate it so much,’ she emotionally expressed
‘And we did find out, on the right side of her lung, she does have cancer in the wall tissues of her right lung. The tumors are, like, triple the size that they were,’ June explained during a confessional
‘We knew that her cancer was very aggressive, but that’s not the news that kind of like we want to hear. I mean, she’s not giving up her fight, no. No. She’s been fighting hard, and she will continue to fight to her last breath…’
Due to not being able to do another round of chemotherapy, Anna decided that she would try Immunotherapy to help fight the cancer. ‘I want to do what I can to get myself to stay here a little bit longer.’
June later called daughter, Jessica, who was out to lunch with Lauryn to share the update on Anna’s health.
After revealing that the tumors have ‘tripled’ in size, Jessica asked, ‘I mean, what do you mean that it’s getting worse? They give her like a time stamp or something?’
‘I mean, honestly – I mean, I’m just gonna be as honest and real as possible. Like, this time next year, I don’t think that she’ll be here.’
June then asked that ‘differences’ be put aside, referencing to the financial drama surrounding herself and Alana – which had also upset her other daughters, including Lauryn and Jessica.
Jessica the asked June what Anna plans to do about her two children. Anna is mother to Kaitlyn, 11, and Kylee, eight – who went to her own biological father. However, Kaitlyn’s father is not in her life.
June replied, ‘Since the beginning, since we first found out this cancer eight months ago, that she has been saying that she wants, like, Kaitlyn to go to me.’
‘We knew that her cancer was very aggressive, but that’s not the news that kind of like we want to hear. I mean, she’s not giving up her fight, no. No. She’s been fighting hard, and she will continue to fight to her last breath…’
Due to not being able to do another round of chemotherapy, Anna decided that she would try Immunotherapy to help fight the cancer. ‘I want to do what I can to get myself to stay here a little bit longer’
After revealing that the tumors have ‘tripled’ in size, Jessica asked, ‘I mean, what do you mean that it’s getting worse? They give her like a time stamp or something?’
‘I mean, honestly – I mean, I’m just gonna be as honest and real as possible. Like, this time next year, I don’t think that she’ll be here’
Jessica the asked June what Anna plans to do about her two children, and June replied, ‘Since the beginning, since we first found out this cancer eight months ago, that she has been saying that she wants, like, Kaitlyn to go to me’
Lauryn later talked to husband, Josh, about Anna’s condition and how June possibly wants custody over her daughter Kaitlyn.
‘Mama was like, “Well, yeah, we talked about the kids today, and she wants me to get Kaitlyn.” It’s kind of weird,’ and added that June ‘didn’t even take care of’ Anna.
Pumpkin then said in a confessional, ‘The doctor has been telling Anna for months now, you need to get your affairs in order, you need to get your affairs in order, because I can’t guarantee, you know, a lifespan or a certain amount of time.’
‘And Anna has two small kids. The least she could do is sit down with everybody and say, “Hey, this is what I want. Let’s get it in writing.”‘
Lauryn later talked to husband, Josh, about Anna’s condition and how June possibly wants custody over her daughter Kaitlyn
Pumpkin then said in a confessional, ‘The doctor has been telling Anna for months now, you need to get your affairs in order, you need to get your affairs in order, because I can’t guarantee, you know, a lifespan or a certain amount of time’
Lauryn told Josh, ‘ At least I know that I would be, like, a decent mother figure, you know? I mean, at the end of the day, she is my sister, you know, so…’
‘I think when it comes to Anna, if it is true that she wants Mama to take care of Kaitlyn, it comes to a money issue,’ she explained to Josh.
However, Josh said that they don’t have anymore room to take Kaitlyn and expressed that he loves Anna ‘to death,’ but added that she ‘has to figure this out.’
‘This is – this is major. This is real. Like, you’ve got to have your s*** in order.’
Lauryn told Josh, ‘ At least I know that I would be, like, a decent mother figure, you know? I mean, at the end of the day, she is my sister, you know, so…’