Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson and her mom, Mama June, are having a crisis over money.

On Friday's episode of "Mama June: Family Crisis," the 44-year-old reality TV star told her 18-year-old daughter that she couldn't afford to pay for Alana's college education because she was trying to rebuild her finances.

But this was not the case according to Honey Boo Boo, who revealed that her mom was spending money on her husband Justin Stroud's gold chains.

"Maybe she thinks that paying for Justin's chains or something is more important than giving it to me for college. She's stingy when it comes to money," Alana said.

She added, "It kind of just pisses me off because she can help everyone around her... but it's just like when it comes to me, it's like, 'Well, Alana, I can't do nothing for you, I don't have the money' and she knows she's got the money. It would have been nice to have her help. I don't know, it's like she doesn't believe me, for real."

After the episode aired, Mama June and Honey Boo Boo became a hot topic topic on Reddit. The Shannon matriarch received backlash for being unable to support her daughter's college education despite allegedly exploiting Honey Boo Boo's whole childhood.

"This is awful. It's 2024, and she's just 18 now. The original show aired in 2012. Her whole life has been televised by 'The Learning Channel' and her mother since she was in elementary school and through all that, nothing [has] been set aside for her college education," opined one netizen.

"This is really sad. She just wants to go to college and get her degree," commented another.

"'Honey Boo Boo basically summed up her feelings in a later confessional ... straight-up saying Mama could help everyone else, but when it came to her, she said her mom's never got anything for her.' That's a f***ing heartbreaking thing for a child to realize about her mother. Poor Alana," someone else wrote.

"Alana should write a book and hopefully get some money. Her mother is a s**t parent and human being," a different user said.

"Infuriating that Alana's money wasn't locked away in a trust that her POS mother couldn't touch. That little girl earned that money, she was the show. Honey's entire life has been exploited. I hope she can get an education and get far away from the cesspool that is her mother," stated another netizen.

"How terrible for Alana. She has been exposed from such a young age and on top of that exposed to so much s**t through Mama June and her bad choices. TLC/WE TV needs to sponsor this kid's college, it's the least they could do," commented someone else.

Mama June and Stroud tied the knot in March 2022 and remarried in February last year.

For their second wedding, Mama June was joined by her four daughters, Alana, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird, Jessica "Chubbs" Shannon and Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell.

Interestingly, it was Mama June who proposed to Stroud, whom she called "Prince Charming."

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Honey boo boo, Alana thompson, Mama june, June Shannon