- Mama June Shannon said her daughter Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson was involved in a car accident.
- Shannon said Thompson was “T-boned” while pulling out of her driveway in Denver.
- The reality star is experiencing “back pain” and “headache issues,” her mother said.
Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson was involved in a car accident.
The former Toddlers and Tiara star’s mother, Mama June Shannon, said her daughter was “T-boned” while pulling out of her driveway in Denver on Friday.
“Alana is fine,” Shannon said in an Instagram video on Friday. “She was hit on the driver’s side of her car. It could have been a lot worse. She was took to the hospital.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to Thompson’s representatives for more information.
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Shannon said her daughter is experiencing some “back pain” as well as “headache issues,” adding that she was traveling to Denver to get her daughter a rental car and “get her set” after the accident.
“Alana is at home and resting,” Shannon said. “Keep Alana in your prayers and us as we figure all this out.”
Shannon offered more information in the caption of her video. “She was just going to go get her hair done,” the reality star’s mother said, noting that Thompson’s first phone call was to the police and her second phone call was to her clinical director, as she is studying to be a nurse at Regis University.
“Tomorrow would’ve been her first day that she would’ve started clinicals,” Shannon explained. “And [she’s] still saying that she’s gonna get up in the morning and go.”
Shannon claimed that Thompson’s vehicle was struck by a 23-year-old driver. “I have to give him credit where credit is due,” she said in her video. “He admitted that he was going 40 miles an hour but probably wasn’t paying attention.”
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Shannon also lamented the fact that she lives 23 hours away from her daughter. “When you get that phone call … your stomach drops and all you can hear is someone hollering,” she said.
Thompson rose to fame when she appeared on Toddlers and Tiaras as a child in the 2010s. She later starred in a spinoff show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which ran from 2012 to 2014.
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She also appeared on Dancing With the Stars: Juniors in 2018 and performed on The Masked Singer alongside Shannon in 2021.
Earlier this year, Thompson narrated a Lifetime movie based on her life, I Was Honey Boo Boo. The movie starred Vale Cooper as a young version of the former pageant competitor.
