Staying sturdy. In terms of her daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s most cancers battle, Mama June Shannon mentioned there are good days and unhealthy days.
“This spherical of chemo has been form of completely different,” the Mama June: Household Disaster star, 43, solely advised Us Weekly on Thursday, Might 4, whereas selling the brand new season of her actuality present. “She’s sleeping extra. It was form of tough, this spherical.”
Anna, 28, was first recognized with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma in January after she complained about painful abdomen aches. The mom of two — who shares daughter Kaitlyn, 10, with ex Caleb Clark and daughter Kylee, 7, with ex-husband Michael Cardwell — underwent her first spherical of chemotherapy in February, one month earlier than information of her prognosis broke on March 30.
For as a lot as Shannon tries to behave calm about her eldest’s troublesome scenario, the fact star advised Us there are days when she doesn’t “know the best way to cope with it,” including, “I can simply think about, like, if I’m feeling that method as her mother, how she’s feeling that her method as an individual who’s having to dwell with it day in, day trip.”
Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell and Mama June Shannon MEGA
To not point out, the Toddlers & Tiaras alum mentioned she’s been upset by the dearth of assist they’ve obtained from different members of the family amid Anna’s most cancers battle. “The folks which are solely right here is me, Justin [Stroud], Pumpkin [Lauryn Efird], Alana [Thompson], her boyfriend [Dralin Carswell], and Jessica [Shannon],” June acknowledged. “No person else is right here for Anna, no one else goes to therapy, no one else goes to her home.”
In terms of how Anna’s children are dealing with issues, June famous that Anna’s prognosis has made granddaughter Kaitlyn “extra clingy.” Stroud — whom June married in March 2022 earlier than tying the knot once more in a seashore marriage ceremony ceremony in February — additionally added that Kylee is “nonetheless simply too younger to essentially comprehend what’s happening.”
Followers will see June cope with her personal well being points on the brand new season of Mama June: Household Disaster, which premieres Friday, Might 5. A preview for the present’s new episodes reveals the Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo alum within the hospital for a difficulty June advised Us she’s “nonetheless coping with.”
Through the years, June has been candid about her struggles with weight reduction and drug dependancy and is at present over three years sober. Having struggled with dependancy himself, Stroud advised Us that their assist for each other “helps greater than any 12-step program.”
He continued: “We positively don’t reminisce. We don’t even discuss it. No. We simply — it’s one thing that we all know we’re gonna do. Like, I don’t haven’t any need to be on medicine anymore, similar to she doesn’t. You recognize, simply being right here and being supportive for one another, being mad at one another, being joyful.”
June, for her half, famous that she doesn’t even “take into consideration doing medicine” amid Anna’s most cancers battle, including, “I’ve 100 extra ideas in my thoughts than worrying about going out and utilizing medicine.”
Mama June: Household Disaster returns to WE television Friday, Might 5, at 9 p.m. ET.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
