Mama June and Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird are struggling on the upcoming episode of Mama June: Household Disaster. In ET’s unique, sneak peek clip, the mother-daughter duo emotionally focus on Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell‘s lack of ability to just accept her imminent demise amid her battle with most cancers.
“I think Anna just gets so wound up,” Mama June says. “I tried to ask the doctor her time frame, and then she cut him off. She was like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard one, five and 10 years.’ He looked at her and said, ‘You’re not going to make it 10 years. You’re not going to make it five years.’
“She isn’t dwelling in actuality in any respect, Mama. She doesn’t notice she’s going to die. crying I feel she is aware of she’s going to die, however…” Pumpkin trails off, with Mama June supplying, “She does not wish to face it.”
“However she must, Mama, although,” Pumpkin notes.
Mama June goes on to explain that see looked into a life insurance policy for Anna and her children, Kaitlyn and Kylee, but was unable to secure one without documents Anna had yet to provide.
“I am type of shocked that Mama’s even wanting into life insurance coverage insurance policies for the women and for Anna, however actually, I feel that is crucial, as a result of the women are high precedence,” Pumpkin tells the cameras. “Anna’s husband Eldridge [Toney] is not even the organic father of the 2 children. Kylee, her dad continues to be within the image, so legally he would get custody of her. However with Kaitlyn, she does not have a dad round or within the image in any respect, so it is like, the place is she going to go?”
Back in her conversation with Mama June, Pumpkin says, “The most cancers half would not be so dangerous if she would simply repair the stuff that must be fastened, get her affairs so as, after which we would all have the ability to simply hang around and fear about spending time together with her.”
Mama June agrees, telling her daughter, “She’s within the actuality that Eldridge, simply because they’re married, he’ll get the rights, however that is not the case… She says she desires Eldridge to undertake Kaitlyn, however when that point comes and Eldridge says one thing about it, she type of hesitates. If you do not need Eldridge to [do it] and also you need me or Pumpkin…”
“No,” Pumpkin insists of taking on her nieces. “That is Anna’s struggle that we’re all serving to her out with. I am unable to signal Kaitlyn over to no person. You may’t signal Kaitlyn over to no person. It is the struggle that Anna must proceed to f**king struggle.”
Pumpkin then gets up to leave, encouraging Mama June to try to get through to Anna.
“It is like speaking to a brick wall in there,” Mama June complains, to which Pumpkin is quick to respond, “Effectively, you needed the f**king Mama title again, you possibly can have it again.”
Anna was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in January 2023. After undergoing treatment, Anna died in December. When ET spoke to Mama June months before Anna’s death, the reality star knew her daughter wouldn’t survive.
“For me, it is an emotional rollercoaster generally. Mentally it is at all times on my thoughts. We all know it is terminal,” she said. “She’s stage 4. She’s not gonna go into remission. We have all accepted that, so I simply inform folks at some point at a time ‘trigger you by no means know.”
Mama June: Household Disaster airs Fridays on WEtv and streams on ALLBLK.
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