Mama June would not wish to cope with her grief in terms of the dying of her daughter, Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell. On this week’s episode of Mama June: Household Disaster, the 44-year-old matriarch, whose actual identify is June Shannon, is struggling after she receives Anna’s stays following the cremation.
June admits that she nonetheless wakes up in the midst of the night time, considering she will be able to hear her daughter calling out to her.
“I simply lay there considering she’s gonna ask for medication or she’s gonna do that, or she’s gonna try this, however we by no means get to see her once more,” she says by means of tears. “We by no means get to the touch her once more or something like that. It is lots.”
June’s husband, Justin Stroud, encourages her to cry and let her feelings out, however June feels she has to maintain it collectively for the sake of Anna’s 11-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn.
“You’ll be able to’t inform any person learn how to grieve,” June tells Justin.
“I am not telling you learn how to grieve,” he insists, later including, “I am your husband, that is what I am imagined to do. I am imagined to strive that will help you grieve, and that is what I am doing. However you may’t simply shut down.”
The mom of 4 disagrees, saying she needs to be sturdy for Kaitlyn.
“You have to placed on a courageous face as a result of now I am elevating an 11-year-old baby, so you must present her that life does go on,” June says.
Justin appears involved by June’s method, saying in a confessional interview, “Since Anna’s dying, June’s attempting to maintain all the pieces bottled up within her and she or he’s not wanting to speak about it. I am not attempting to inform her learn how to grieve. I simply need her to know that I am right here for her. It is OK to cry. It is OK to be mad, however you must be prepared to take a seat down and discuss it.”
Anna — the oldest of June’s 4 daughters — died on Dec. 9 after a battle with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma.
ET spoke with June in April, months after Anna’s tragic dying.
“That is the reality, Kylee’s dad should not be elevating Kylee and I should not be elevating Kaitlyn,” June instructed ET. “[Their] mom, Anna, must be elevating them and that is what I say over and again and again. I even inform Kaitlyn that fairly often, ‘I will by no means substitute your mom.'”
Based on June, she has not seen Kylee, 8, since Anna’s funeral as she has been staying along with her dad, Anna’s ex-husband Michael Cardwell. Kaitlyn, 11, is presently in June’s custody as Anna by no means publicly revealed the identify of her elder daughter’s father.
The truth TV star says that regardless of the circumstances, her older granddaughter has been thriving in her care and doing rather well whilst her “world has been tossed the wrong way up.”
“I can not reply for Kylee as a result of we’ve not seen her for the reason that funeral however Kaitlyn is doing superb,” June shared. “She’s going to public faculty. She’s doing extra superb than she was in her personal faculty so far as grades and stuff.”
As for her personal grieving course of, June admitted that she’s been struggling within the wake of her daughter’s dying.
“For me personally, it is simply been emotional,” she mentioned, noting that reliving Anna’s closing moments on the present has been notably difficult.
Mama June: Household Disaster airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on WEtv.
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