Overview

• The Lifetime biopic 'I Was Honey Boo Boo' premieres on May 17, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET, chronicling Alana Thompson's life from child star to college student.
• Thompson candidly narrates her experiences growing up on reality TV and enduring her family's struggles with addiction and financial exploitation.
• Mama June, Thompson's mother, faced public battles with crack cocaine addiction, including a 2019 arrest, but has been sober since 2020 and remarried in 2022.
• Thompson, now a nursing student at Regis University, credits her sister Lauryn Efird, who gained custody in 2022, for helping her focus on academics and graduate high school in 2023.
• While Thompson and her mother have reconciled, she admits to being nervous about her mother’s reaction to the biopic, which she says does not hold back from the truth.