‘Mama June: Family Crisis’: June & Pumpkin Break Down In Tears Over Anna’s Cancer News

The July 14 play finale of Mama June: Family Crisis was expected to beryllium a blessed occurrence — Mama June got married, and each 4 of her daughters walked her down the aisle earlier they celebrated her national with Justin Stroud — but conscionable 2 weeks aft June and Justin said “I do”, calamity struck. June’s eldest girl Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell learned she had cancer. And portion viewers already knew that Anna was diagnosed with Stage 4 crab erstwhile they went into this week’s episode, this was the archetypal clip we saw however June and her different daughters reacted to the shocking news.

Two weeks aft June’s wedding, Anna broke the quality to June earlier asking June to assistance her present the quality to her sisters, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird and Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson. “There’s thing I privation to speech to you about. Try to get Alana with you,” Anna told Pumpkin aft she called her sister and told her that June was besides connected the radical telephone telephone with them.

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“What is it?” Pumpkin asked, and Anna replied, “It’s thing important I person to speech to you each about.”

Pumpkin started to get tense and rightfully so. Once she got wrong Alana’s room, Anna told them, “Well, you each cognize that for a while, I’ve been having wellness issues, right? Well, I got an update connected my stuff. Your beauteous oldest sister has Stage 4 crab — adrenal carcinoma. And there’s thing other that they tin bash but for close present is chemo for astir apt the adjacent 4 months.”

Pumpkin didn’t cognize what to accidental — her jaw was connected the floor. “It’s excessively aggressive,” June added earlier Anna further explained, “It’s excessively assertive close present to adjacent effort a country oregon bash radiation.”

“Well, f***. I don’t cognize what to say,” Pumpkin told Anna, and Anna said she felt the aforesaid mode upon learning the news.

“What happens if the chemo doesn’t work?” Pumpkin asked, to which June replied, “Then, they spell backmost to the drafting committee and we don’t cognize what’s next.”

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Then, successful her backstage confessional, June teared up and said, “I mean, who wants to say, ‘I mightiness hide my daughter’? I don’t cognize wherever to scream. I don’t cognize wherever to yell. I don’t cognize wherever to beryllium mad. There’s immoderate days I don’t… I just… immoderate days you conscionable person to get done the day, [because] I can’t ideate what she’s going through. Because if I’m [getting upset], she’s the 1 dealing with it.”

Back connected the telephone call, Anna told her sisters she’d find retired much arsenic clip went connected and they’ll conscionable person to “figure it out” together.

After the telephone ended, Pumpkin told Alana that she couldn’t judge what they were hearing. Everyone had conscionable gotten “together” and made amends, and now, this quality is going to “affect everybody.” In her backstage confessional, Pumpkin cried and said her sister is “only 28” and has “two kids” — she doesn’t cognize “how to spell on” knowing everyone is facing specified a “sad” future.

“Our household has been done immoderate messed up stuff, but thing similar this,” Pumpkin told Alana, who was contemplating going to Denver for college. Earlier successful the occurrence she got accepted into a truly bully nursing schoolhouse successful Colorado, but present that Anna has cancer, she’s not definite what to do. “This is virtually going to alteration everything,” Pumpkin said.

TMZ archetypal reported connected Anna’s crab diagnosis successful January 2023. And since then, June’s eldest girl has been undergoing attraction for the illness and sharing moments from her wellness travel connected Instagram. But adjacent though she’s since gone done treatment, including aggregate rounds of chemotherapy, the household precocious announced her crab is terminal.

In July 2023, June told Entertainment Tonight, “For me, it’s an affectional rollercoaster sometimes. Mentally it’s ever connected my mind. We cognize it’s terminal. She’s signifier 4. She’s not gonna spell into remission. We’ve each accepted that, truthful I conscionable archer radical 1 time astatine a clip ’cause you ne'er know. She conscionable wants to spot however it’s gonna go”. The adjacent measurement would beryllium immune therapy successful objective trials, but astatine this stage, Anna whitethorn take an end-of-life enactment and unrecorded retired her days arsenic champion arsenic she can. “We don’t cognize what to expect due to the fact that the crab is precise assertive and it grew from thing to thing immense connected the near broadside of her assemblage truly fast,” June said astatine the time.

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