Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson tells family to ‘stay out of her business’ as she is confronted about indecision to go to college without her boyfriend: ‘Give me a break!’

Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson snapped back at her family after being confronted about her indecision to go to college in Colorado without her boyfriend, Dralin Carswell. 

In the latest episode of Mama June: Family Crisis titled School Daze, the TV personality, 18, was revealed to only have one week to decide whether she will attend school before losing a $21,000 scholarship.

Back in July 2023, Alana was accepted to Regis University in Denver to pursue a degree in nursing. However, due to Dralin, 22, facing legal issues, the star has been contemplating whether she will go to Colorado without him. 

Her sister Lauryn ‘Pumpkin,’ found out about the possibility of Alana losing her scholarship through her daughter Ella – who spilled that Honey Boo Boo had received an email from the university. 

Frustrated over her younger sister not telling her about the email, Pumpkin opened about her feelings over the topic and said she would enlist in some help. 

‘You know, I’m so sick of Alana being all over the place, whether she wants to go to Colorado or she doesn’t. So how about now it’s time to bring in some sister support?’ she said in a confessional. 

In the next scene during the episode, Lauryn was seen stepping into a bathroom to have a private call with sister, Jessica – who also attended college. 

At one point, Pumpkin told Jessica that she needs to ‘step up’ while adding, ‘I need you real bad, okay? Because we’re both under the understanding that Alana needs and should go to Colorado.’ 

‘So I feel like if we leave Mom out of the situation, it’ll maybe make Alana more prone to make her decision.’ 

Jessica agrees to talk one-on-one with Honey Boo Boo, but both sisters discuss how to make the situation not suspicious. Eventually, Jessica decides that she will take Alana to get her nails done and will find a way to ease into the topic of school. 

The next day, the 18-year-old joined her sister for a bit of pampering at a nail salon, and the pair initially discussed her high school graduation and how Mama June’s sister, Aunt Doe Doe, didn’t show up. 

Honey Boo Boo explained that afterwards, she had stopped by the house to give her a present and to apologize for not being there. ‘Like really, I don’t care because you should have been there.’ 

She then brought up that Aunt Doe Doe might have been ‘jealous’ that Mama June was back in their lives but added, ‘People that wanted to be there were there.’ 

Eventually, the topic of university came up and Alana admitted that she was still unsure what she planned to do. 

Jessica tried to convince her to attend the school by saying, ‘I mean, think about it, Alana. We’re the only two that graduated high school.’ 

She also explained, ‘Do you know how many people don’t go to college, don’t get to experience it? Nobody tells you what to do. You’re grown. If you want to stay up and eat ice cream till 7:00 in the morning, guess what you can do? Eat ice cream till 7:00 in the morning.’ 

‘You see this little small town we live in? There’s nothing for you. Me and you can both be graduates of college. I was the first one to graduate. You can be the second one and do better than me and go off and actually be a nurse and outshine everybody.’

‘And then when you do all that stuff, you turn around and you look at all these people in this small town and you say, “F*** you,” I did it. Don’t you want to adventure out, see new things, meet new people?’

Jessica also told her, ‘It took me forever to figure out who I was and now I’m happy. And that’s what I want for you. I want you to be living free and happy.’ 

However, Alana explained, ‘I mean, I want to go to Colorado, but with everything with Dralin and stuff…[it’s] a hard decision right now.’ 

After expressing her worries over Honey Boo Boo taking a break by not going to college, Alana replied with, ‘Right now, I don’t want to talk about school, Jessie. I want to relax.’

‘I think, like, you’re giving me the vibe that Pumpkin has done put you up to something. I really didn’t want you to sit here and lecture me about college.’ 

She then brought up what her late sister Anna had said at her graduation party. ‘Everybody needs to stay out of my business and shut the hell up.’ 

After getting their nails done, Honey Boo Boo confronted Pumpkin about going behind her back to have Jessica confront her over college. 

Lauryn explained that Ella told her about the email and Alana replied, ‘You can’t trust nobody in this family! Everybody in this family must have a loud mouth.’ 

She later added, ‘Why you can’t just give me a break? You pounding me and everything’s just going on right now, y’all are doing too much. I understand you’re trying to be like the mom now. Just give it a rest.’ 

The confrontation ended with Pumpkin saying, ‘Well, you’re going, so I don’t care,’ causing Honey Boo Boo to yell, ‘Oh my God,’ and walked out of the room. 

Lauryn continued to take matters into her own hands by calling Mama June over Alana’s indecision and to get advice over Dralin’s legal situation. 

He allegedly drove under the influence back in February 2023 and spent two days in Monroe County jail before being released on a $25,000 bond. 

In October, a court clerk confirmed to The Sun that Dralin had pleaded not guilty to four charges after being arraigned. 

Pumpkin called Dralin and asked whether he had contacted the bondsman and he revealed he did not. He admitted he was afraid he will be told he cannot go to Colorado with Alana. 

Lauryn then told him that if he doesn’t go to the bondsman on his own, she will personally take Dralin. 

Elsewhere in the episode, when Jessica and Alana were at the nail salon, Pumpkin met up with Aunt Doe Doe at a restaurant. 

The pair discussed Doe Doe’s absence from Honey Boo Boo’s graduation and the topic of her possibly not going to college came up. 

Lauryn revealed that Alana received an email warning her that ‘she had a week to decide if she’s going to go or not,’ and she added concerningly, ‘If she chooses not to answer within a week, the scholarship can be gone.’ 

‘So now I have to figure out about Dralin and s***,’ she said, to which Jo replied: ‘Who cares about Dralin’s stuff. I’m sorry, I like the dude, but this is her future.’

Lauryn commented, ‘But let’s be real, Alana’s not going to go out there, unless he can go out there.’

Jo shared in her confessional: ‘Alana not going to college because of Dralin – I don’t think so. She don’t need to follow in her mama’s footsteps. I mean, that’s all June used to do. Well, and still does. Men before anything else.’ 

‘She cannot follow her mother’s footsteps, who followed our mother’s footsteps. Let’s break the cycle. Stop following the man. Do it on your own.’

The scene transitioned back to the restaurant as Jo asked Lauryn, ‘So how the f*** do we get Alana to Colorado in a week?’

Lauryn said, ‘I am trying so hard. I just don’t know what to do about Dralin and stuff.’ The aunt replied firmly, ‘Put his a** in a car and go to an attorney or the bail bond or the court or whoever you got to go to and figure something out.’

Lauryn asked ‘What if Alana doesn’t want me to get involved?’ The aunt responded, ‘Who cares? She’ll get over it when she’s working in a field that’s her passion, making bank. She’ll be grateful. Oh my God, thank you for doing that.’

Lauryn confessed, ‘Well it’s hard being everybody’s f***ing mama,’ with Jo saying, ‘Tell me about it. Done that, been there.’

Alana graduated high school in May and she was the second person in her family to get accepted into college and is hoping to pursue nursing.

Also during the latest episode, Mama June was seen at the hospital with late daughter, Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell, who was on her fourth and final round of chemotherapy. 

In January 2023, she was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer. June briefly filmed while inside the hospital and when the treatment for the day was done, the pair were joined by Mama’s husband, Justin. 

The trio drove to a rental home in Atlanta to be near the hospital and were soon visited by Lauryn, who brought up the topic of Anna’s two daughters: Kaitlyn, 11, and Kylee, eight. 

Anna expressed that she felt the chemotherapy was working, but Lauryn insisted that she still needed to prioritize getting her affairs in order. 

Pumpkin told Mama June as the pair moved to talk outside, ‘She is not living in reality at all, Mama, like she does not realize she’s gonna die. I think she knows that she’s gonna die,’ with June adding, ‘But she doesn’t want to face it.’ 

Mama then told Lauryn that she had been looking into policies on her own but there wasn’t much she was able to do since most steps needed to be done by Anna herself.

‘I’m kinda shocked that Mama was even looking into life insurance policies for the girls and for Anna,’ Pumpkin said in a confessional. 

‘But honestly, I think that is very important because girls are top priority. Anna’s husband Eldridge [Toney] isn’t even the biological father of the two kids.’ 

‘Kylee, her dad is still in the picture. So legally, he would get custody of her. But you know, with Kaitlyn she doesn’t have a dad around or in the picture at all. So it’s like, where’s she gonna go?’ 

Pumpkin told Mama June, ‘The cancer part wouldn’t be so bad if she would just fix the stuff that needs to be fixed, get her affairs in order and then we’d all be able to just hang out and worry about spending time with her.’ 

June later told Justin that both she and Lauryn, ‘feel like and the reason why she’s kind of dragging her feet is because then that makes it real, like “Hey, I’m not gonna be around like see Kaitlyn graduate high school, I’m not gonna be around to see Kylee graduate.”‘ 

Both June and Justin further discussed buying a house in case Anna went into hospice. ‘She’s gonna have to be with us, she’s gonna have to be watched 24/7.’ 

Justin also said in a confessional, ‘If me and June do end up with custody of Kaitlyn, it’s gonna be a big adjustment. Taking care of a kid is a huge responsibility, but if that’s something that we need to do.’ 

Anna passed away in December 2023 at the age of 29. Her daughter Kylee is under custody of her biological father Michael Cardwell and Kaitlyn is reportedly living with Mama June.