Lauryn Shannon Alleges Abuse Towards Step-Father, Says TLC Helped Cowl It Up

Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon and her sister, Alana Thompson, had been friends this week on the Dumb Blonde podcast.

They usually each cited some VERY troubling allegations throughout the revealing, private and emotional interview.

Throughout this look, the veteran actuality stars ran down an account of their difficult childhoods… which Pumpkin claimed was made a real nightmare because of the bodily and psychological abuse inflicted on her by Sugar Bear, the long-time live-in boyfriend of their well-known mom, June Shannon.

“What lots of people didn’t see on [Here Comes Honey Boo Boo] was loads of abuse, bodily from Sugar Bear,” Lauryn mentioned on air.

“Bodily and psychological,” she added.

Lauren is 22 years outdated.

She has 4 kids … and she or he additionally has custody of 17-year outdated Alana — the star of Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo, a TLC program that ran from 2012 via 2017 and which documented her life as a toddler magnificence pageant contestant — after their mom basically ran out on them two years in the past amid a substance abuse binge.

“[When I was] 14, he threw a set of keys at my eyes, and my retina had develop into indifferent,” Pumpkin mentioned on this podcast of the person generally known as Sugar Bear.

“So I needed to get a buckle placed on the again of my eye and stuff like that. It simply began to get progressively worse.”

The incident — which occurred in 2012 — was defined away on an Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo episode as a “freak accident,” throughout which Sugar Bear mentioned he threw the keys to Pumpkin and she or he merely missed them.

Here’s a display shot from that episode:

Lauryn additionally says that producers and crew members had been conscious of this abuse.

“We had been really filming in the future and our sound woman was bent over and…Mama and [Sugar Bear] had gotten into it,” she detailed of one other outburt.

“Nicely, he took a lotion bottle and, like, baseball slings it via a f**king window.

“And the sound woman is sitting there…it went over her head and it might have took her head off. It might have critically damage her.”

Fortunately, the mom of 4 says that Alana was spared when it got here to the alleged abuse from Sugar Bear.

“She might not have seen it however I noticed loads of the bodily abuse from him,” Pumpkin continued.

“He was all the time indignant at me for some purpose. The abuse was fairly f**king dangerous.

“It was very hidden [from the public]. The present tried to cowl it up.”

June and Sugar Bear (the organic father of Alana’s) had been engaged for 16 months earlier than calling it quits in September 2014.

On this podcast, Alana mentioned their mom was nicely conscious of Sugar Bear’s violent facet.

In 2017, Mama June confessed on social media and in a collection of interviews that Sugar Bear had been abusive towards Pumpkin — even mentioning that Pumpkin’s aforementioned eye damage got here by the hands of her then-lover.

“It’s time the world sees him for what he’s,” June informed Web page Six in 2017. “[Pumpkin’s] eye buckle was attributable to him … as a result of he acquired mad. So many emotional and bodily scars with the children.”

“There have been a number of issues that occurred on ‘Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo’ that was form of like lined up,” June seven mentioned on The Wendy Williams Present later that yr.

For his half, Sugar Bear denied these allegations shortly after they had been first made in public.

Alana insists she was by no means abused in any of those methods by her father — but in addition sadly says he by no means needed a relationship along with her.

“He by no means actually needed something to do with me, nonetheless to at the present time doesn’t need something to do with me, simply because I’m not a boy,” {the teenager} mentioned on the podcast.

“I’m on the level now that, he’s acted like this for thus lengthy, that I’m over it however at first it undoubtedly damage me.”

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