June opens up about leaving Geno — and why “the previous few months have been most likely the worst time in my life.”
Mama June Shannon made an enormous transfer on the season premiere of her WE television actuality present, “Mama June: Highway to Redemption” — working from her poisonous relationship with Geno Doak after years of arrests and regarding conduct.
However leaving him behind wasn’t a simple process for Shannon, who was nonetheless wrestling with when and easy methods to get out on the prime of the hour. Whereas she mentioned she was sober, she claimed he wasn’t and mentioned the scenario was “getting uncontrolled to the place I need assistance” and “household assist.”
Her household — together with daughters Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon and Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and sister Doe Doe — had been all involved June would begin sliding again into previous habits, after efficiently finishing a stint in rehab. As June deliberate her escape, she thought of breaking apart with Geno on the courthouse throughout sentencing for his 2019 arrest for felony drug possession. She mentioned she felt it could be safer for her to finish it there as a result of there could be regulation enforcement current.

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Pumpkin and Doe Doe confirmed as much as the courthouse on the date in query, however his sentencing was postponed and June determined in opposition to breaking apart with him on the time. Her household was pissed off, however June mentioned it wasn’t a simple factor to do and he or she anxious about their security as nicely.
After that, June all however disappeared. Based on Pumpkin, she was utterly absent when Lauryn gave start to June’s first grandson, Bentley, and did not even name her after the infant arrived. The present additionally confirmed that June stopped speaking with manufacturing for 3 stable weeks, earlier than ultimately reaching out and establishing a gathering in a resort in Alabama.
“There’s loads that occurred behind closed doorways that lots of people do not know. My life has been turned inside out … I am simply bored with mendacity and hiding and I made a decision to name y’all,” June defined to a producer inside a resort room.

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“Geno has no concept the place I am at and I would favor for y’all to not inform him that. He went to sleep, handed out as a result of he was drunk and I packed a bag, I left, I acquired an Uber,” she continued. “I attempted to do that just a few instances earlier than and I talked myself out of it. Just a few nights in the past, it was just a few further push.”
“I ought to have left him on the final court docket date, however I did not. The consuming acquired worse, the verbal abuse … I used to be ruining myself emotionally, mentally, having to fret about my sobriety,” mentioned June. “The satan was proper right here saying, ‘ when you use, you do not have to make use of these emotions, when you get cocaine, you do not have to really feel these emotions.”
She added that, for the primary time, she was strolling away from “an abusive relationship” — however, when requested if she broke up with him, June mentioned no. She mentioned that what she was about to inform them “may piss off some folks, who could also be like, ‘What the hell is happening in her life?'” She added, “it is a prepare wreck,” earlier than the episode ended on a cliffhanger together with her saying, “the previous few months have been most likely the worst time in my life, I feel I have to allow you to all know one thing …”
Extra might be revealed subsequent week, when “Mama June: Highway to Redemption” airs Friday on WE television.

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