Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson is recovering after being concerned in a automobile accident.
“Any individual really wasn’t paying consideration and T-boned her on her street. They’re all the time dashing on the street,” Thompson’s mother, Mama June Shannon, introduced through Instagram on Friday, September 26.
“However wanting on the 23-year-old boy, I’ve to provide him credit score with credit score. I simply do, he admitted that he was going 40 miles an hour and possibly wasn’t paying consideration,” Shannon, 46, continued. Whereas Thompson, 20, is “tremendous,” her mother she’s nonetheless contending with a number of “points” following the accident.
“She was hit on the driving force’s aspect of her automobile. It might have been lots worse,” Shannon defined within the put up. “She was took [sic] to the hospital. She does have again ache. She is having some headache points.”
Shannon additionally supplied a prolonged rationalization within the put up’s caption.
The day had been “a loopy day” since 3 o’clock, Shannon wrote through Instagram. She added that moments like accident are when she “hates” that “Alana Thompson is 23 hours away, however she is following her desires.” Shannon additionally famous that receiving a telephone name a few automobile accident was difficult as a mom, however, fortuitously, Thompson can be okay.
She continued, “She is resting. It might’ve been lots worse than it was. She is banged up somewhat bit however aside from that she is OK [it was her] first automobile wreck. She was simply going to go get her hair carried out and her telephone name was to the police or second telephone name was to her scientific director as a result of tomorrow would’ve been her first day that she would’ve began clinicals and he or she nonetheless saying that she’s gonna rise up within the morning and go we’ll see however headed to Denver to get her rental automobile get the automobile scenario discovered and ensuring that she is OK.”
Thompson is presently a pupil at Regis College, the place she is pursuing a level in nursing.

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“I simply all the time advised myself you recognize that you simply wish to do one thing higher along with your life and larger along with your life than simply being on TV, so that you’ve bought to rise up and go, you’ve bought to graduate so you may make it to school and be the nurse that you simply wish to be,” she advised Folks in Might 2025 of her choice to pursue greater training.
Thompson additionally revealed that regardless of rising up on actuality TV, when it was time for her to start faculty she came upon that paying for her diploma could be a problem. At one level, Shannon took $35,000 of Thompson’s Dancing With the Stars earnings — an quantity she has since paid again, however with out an apology.
Finally Thompson forgave her mother, which “was exhausting, however on the finish of the day, she’s my mother.”
“When she was dangerous in her dependancy, I simply stored eager about the day she’d get well,” she continued. “We’re going fairly good. Hopefully it lasts. I simply not have any expectations for her.”