One confrontation down.
One to go.
On final week’s emotional episode of Mama June: From Not to Sizzling, Lauryn Shannon and Alana Thompson lastly sat down throughout from their troubled mom and spilled their hearts out.
Poor Honey Boo Boo cried her eyes out and requested her mom why she principally selected to smoke crack as a substitute of increase her children.
On this Friday’s installment, in the meantime, Lauryn faces off with Geno Doak for the primary time in lots of, many months.
Doak, after all, continues to be courting Mama June Shannon.
He has been for years now and he is performed a vital position in her drug behavior, getting arrested alongside Shannon in March 2019 and spending the next 12 months or so spending all his cash on medicine.
We’re barely even exaggerating right here.
After June and Geno accomplished rehab and began specializing in their sobriety in 2020, Lauryn agreed to a sit-down along with her mother, but wasn’t fairly prepared to do with identical with Geno simply but.
Till this episode on Friday, April 16.
“It was simply uninterested in dwelling the way in which we have been,” Doak tells Shannon of why he lastly sought skilled assist.
“It wasn’t even actually dwelling, we have been simply current. We have been in a cycle and we could not cease.”
Lauryn then places all of it on the market.
“I simply want y’all to hear me and listen to Alana by way of me as a result of she’s not right here.
“I would like y’all to know the way a lot y’all did damage us,” she tells him.
“That is positively been a tough course of making an attempt to inform her it isn’t right here, there’s not one thing unsuitable along with her as a result of she thinks it’s one thing unsuitable along with her.”
The younger girl referred to as “Pumpkin” has clearly been gravely affected by her mom’s actions, referencing her well-known younger sister as follows:
“She thinks my daddy does not need something to do with me as a result of I am not a boy.
“Then she thought Mama’s dependancy — y’all’s dependancy — was her fault too…
“I do not need her to assume like that, I instructed her it isn’t her fault.”
In a confessional, Lauryn provides:
“I do really feel dangerous for Alana as a result of her piece of s— daddy does not need something to do along with her.”
She admitted Geno “went above and past” for Alana as soon as he got here into their lives and “actually confirmed Alana what a father was supposed to be.”
That solely made it all of the extra upsetting, although, when “Geno dropped her and him and Mama did not actually give a s—.”
“I used to be actually offended. At myself, at y’all, actually everyone,” Lauryn proceeds to inform Geno, who admits she had “a proper to be and Alana has the best to really feel that manner.”
“I feel it is good for you and Mama each to hear Alana’s aspect as a result of I am older, I can shelter my emotions like I would like to, however Alana tends to maintain issues in,” Lauryn continues.
“I feel it is good for Mama to see Alana get upset.
“She is just 15 and all of us neglect that as a result of Alana does act far more mature than she truly is.
Pumpkin, who’s pregnant along with her second little one, comes throughout as very mature and understanding on this episode and in these scenes.
She acknowledges that each Geno and June have been extra understanding since they have been “sober for lots longer than simply 2-Three days,” giving them props them for having the ability to hear and “transfer previous all of the damage.”
“I am terribly sorry, I remorse the issues which have occurred and I need you to know there’s nothing that we would not do for you guys,” Geno says to her.
“We love you all and I mentioned I am extraordinarily sorry.”