Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson Realized Her College Dreams Following High School

Former Toddlers and Tiaras star Alana Thompson, aka Honey Boo Boo, took the internet by storm with her big personality and funny lines, inspiring her own spinoff reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

Those appearances skyrocketed Alana and her family, including her mom, June "Mama June" Thompson, to fame and put her family in the spotlight on more than one occasion. But where is Honey Boo Boo now? What has the whole family been up to?

Following the 2014 cancellation of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, it didn't take long for the larger than life family to find their way back to reality TV. However, it was with a WEtv series originally called Mama June: From Not to Hot. From there, the series evolved, with a title that sometimes changed from season to season to reflect whatever issues the family was facing.

Eventually, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird became Alana's legal guardian, and their relationship with June grew more and more fractured. And in a March 2024 episode of WEtv's Mama June: Family Crisis, Alana and her older sister, Lauryn accused June of spending all of Alana's reality TV earnings from over the years. This effectively drove another wedge between June and her daughters.

Viewers saw Alana work toward her dream of going to college following her high school graduation. And after she was accepted at Regis University in Colorado, she reached out to June to ask about paying for her tuition. But, according to June, the money Alana made as a minor from various TV gigs, including appearances on Dancing With the Stars: Juniors and The Masked Singer, had already been spent.

Despite Alana's apparent struggles to pay for college, she is reportedly attending school in Colorado for nursing. But rest assured, she is still part of the WEtv series that she and her family have remained on over the years.

On Mama June: Family Crisis, June admitted to taking 80 percent of Alana's earnings from over the years. Lauryn referenced June potentially spending it on drugs, given June's history with struggling with substance abuse. And in a confessional, Alana threatened to take June to court with legal action over the money June admitted to spending even though it had been earned mostly by Alana over the years.

As of now, it doesn't look like Alana took official legal actions against June. But the legal ramifications behind withholding the money may differ in Georgia, where June and her daughters live, versus California, where there are laws in place for Coogan accounts for celebrity kids to legally have money set aside for them. In Georgia, there aren't such strict laws for accounts or trusts for kids.

Still, both Lauryn and Alana aren't letting this topic go when it comes to June. And there's no denying the viewer response to June's behavior when it comes to supporting Alana and her sisters.

Watch Mama June: Family Crisis on Fridays at 9 p.m. EST on WEtv.