‘Honey Boo Boo’ accuses mother of draining her fortune, exposing child stars’ vulnerabilities: ‘Why was my money even being used, or being touched?’

Honey Boo Boo is all grown up, but her bank account has shrunk. During last week’s episode of Mama June: Family Crisis, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson confronted her mother, "Mama June" Shannon, for draining the money she earned as a child star. It’s all brought up labor laws from back in the Charlie Chaplin days.

Now 18, Thompson catapulted into early-reality-TV fame back in the 2000s, as a breakout star on the TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras. She revealed last year to