Given how increasingly sad their situation has become, it seems a bit strange to continue referring to Mama June and company by their reality TV nicknames, but those are they’re preferred names, as well as how they’re best known to their audience.
Anyway, more troubling news has emerged from McIntyre, Georgia today, as – Patricia East – the ex-wife of Sugar bear Thompson as claimed that June Shannon attempted suicide while pregnant with the now-9-year-old Honey Boo Boo.
“Michael told me, ‘Please come over! June is trying to kill herself!” East told Star magazine in a recent interview. “I wanted to do the right thing, so I went over.”
“She was upset about something and had taken an overdose of Tylenol or Advil. We called poison control and I talked to her and tried to keep her awake.”
East also revealed to the tabloid that Shannon was in the habit of mocking her over the phone in the weeks following East’s split from Thompson:
“She told me, ‘My name is June Shannon and I’ve been sleeping with your husband, but he’s mine now,'” East recalls. “I also found out that she’d been pregnant by Michael while we were still married but she lost the baby.”
Shannon broke up with Thompson in September, reportedly because she began dating Mark McDaniel. McDaniel was convicted of molesting Shannon’s daughter Anna in 2004. He served ten years in prison for the crime.