Mama June, a single stay-at-home mum became well-known for appearing on the trashy reality TV series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (2012-2013). On the program June has a boyfriend, Sugar Bear who worships Mama June’s feet (her feet are eww), but Sugar Bear seems like a decent guy. June has several children, all daughters.
In Season two, she turns down a marriage proposal to Sugar Bear because she’s in love with a paedophile named Mark McDaniel who sexually assaulted her own daughter Anna Cardwell when she was aged 8. Mark sexually assaulted Cardwell on more than one occasion. Mama June kept a box of photos of Mark who was in prison, Sugar Bear asked her to get rid of his photos, which she refused. June was waiting for Mark’s release, so she could dump Sugar Bear (after being with him for 10 years) and get back with Mark. In 2014, June was photographed with Mark, they were photographed together in bed as well as posing with her young daughter Honey Boo Boo.
It was revealed that June has been in a relationship with more than one child molester, she was also in a relationship with Michael Anthony Ford who fathered two of her daughters.
In 2019, June got involved with Eugene Doak who served time in prison for theft and vandalism, June broke up with him and accused him of abuse. In 2022, June was married for the first time to convicted felon Justin Stroud.