Mama June does not wish to cope with her grief in relation to the loss of life 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 evening, 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 loads.”
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 individual how one can grieve,” June tells Justin.
“I am not telling you how one can grieve,” he insists, later including, “I am your husband, that is what I am presupposed to do. I am presupposed to strive that will help you grieve, and that is what I am doing. However you’ll be able to’t simply shut down.”
The mom of 4 disagrees, saying she must be sturdy for Kaitlyn.
“You have to placed on a courageous face as a result of now I am elevating an 11-year-old little one, so you need to present her that life does go on,” June says.
Justin appears involved by June’s method, saying in a confessional interview, “Since Anna’s loss of life, June’s making an attempt to maintain all the pieces bottled up inside her and she or he’s not wanting to speak about it. I am not making an attempt to inform her how one can 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 need to 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 loss of life.
“That is the reality, Kylee’s dad should not be elevating Kylee and I should not be elevating Kaitlyn,” June advised ET. “[Their] mom, Anna, ought to be elevating them and that is what I say over and time and again. I even inform Kaitlyn that fairly often, ‘I am going to by no means change your mom.'”
In accordance with June, she has not seen Kylee, 8, since Anna’s funeral as she has been staying together with her dad, Anna’s ex-husband Michael Cardwell. Kaitlyn, 11, is at the moment 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 other way up.”
“I can not reply for Kylee as a result of we’ve got not seen her for the reason that funeral however Kaitlyn is doing wonderful,” June shared. “She’s going to public faculty. She’s doing extra wonderful than she was in her non-public 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 loss of life.
“For me personally, it is simply been emotional,” she mentioned, noting that reliving Anna’s last moments on the present has been significantly difficult.
Mama June: Household Disaster airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on WEtv.
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