Plus, everything to know about the reality TV star’s boyfriend Dralin Carswell after the pair were criticized for their age gap
REALITY TV star Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson has issued an urgent housing appeal as fans urged her mother Mama June to step in.
Alana, 18, opened up about the challenges she and boyfriend Dralin Carswell, 22, were facing finding a home together after moving to Denver, Colorado, last year.
She asked her fans and followers to help “find us a house” in a TikTok that Mama June, real name June Elizabeth Stroud, reposted on Instagram late Sunday night, August 25.
Explaining that they have to move out of their current house by September 1, 2024, Alana said she and Dralin have been “looking up and down, any and everywhere” for a new rental without success.
“The main problem is that Dralin has student loans on his credit, and the balance is greater than $1,000, so they will not accept our application,” the Toddlers and Tiaras alum continued.
Meanwhile, Alana, 18, said her own credit score wasn’t high enough to rent a property, adding, “Alana has no credit. Alana has zero credit. Alana’s trying to build her credit but literally zero. Zilch.”
“And quite frankly, I’m starting to freak out that we do not have a house to move into September 1, and it’s August 20, okay?” she said. “So I need help, my Denver peeps. I need help to find us a house.”
The Here Comes Honey Boo Boo star admitted “I’m not really on the side of apartments” while listing out the couple’s requirements for a new house because “our dog really needs a yard.
“But, at this point, anything counts,” she continued. “Please. I’m begging. Help.”
Alana’s fans asked Mama June, 45, to help her daughter out, with one person writing, “Maybe have your mom or boyfriend’s mom co-sign for a place.”
Another Instagram user suggested, “Mama June, buy a condo/place in Colorado and let Lana and her man pay the mortgage.”
Addressing Alana’s detractors, a third fan commented, “Are y’all forgetting she only has been out of high school 1 year, how about her mom do something to help her daughter [now that] she’s in college.
“I pray that they find somewhere fast.”
Details of Alana’s rental difficulties come after she accused June of stealing her money during a heated confrontation on the WeTV series Mama June: Family Crisis earlier this year.
“You don’t really give a f**k that you took our money! That’s the real problem!” Alana said, through tears, after learning there was no money for her to go to college.
During the January episode, it was revealed that June had spent most of her daughter’s reality TV earnings, including the money she made from TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Dancing with the Stars.
“I used it on my drug addiction. Wooh!” June sarcastically retorted to Alana’s accusations of mismanaging her money.
Alana has been under the care of her sister, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird, 23, since June gave up custody of the teen two years ago.
MONEY TROUBLES
The mom-of-four has battled substance abuse issues for many years and was arrested in 2019 on felony drug possession charges with her ex, Geno Doak.
The family organized an intervention for them and June eventually got clean.
She previously confessed to spending like “$1.5 million” on her drug habit, in an interview with Us Weekly in March 2021.
“You gotta think about it, like, literally since 2000 into 2017 [and into January 2020],” she referred to her cocaine addiction.
“Our habits start off as a one gram a day, which was $100, and then it went from there to, like, a couple hundred dollars next week, a couple hundred dollars,” June continued.
“Then it became $2,400 or $3,000 just depending on where we were at. If we were in L.A., our habit will be four grand a day,” she told the outlet.
COMING CLEAN
Her husband Justin Stroud recently opened up about her relationship with sobriety during an episode of the family’s WeTV reality series in June.
Speaking to Lauryn’s now-ex husband Joshua Efird, Justin said June was putting her sobriety at risk “by lying.”
He also admitted June was “slacking” and should have admitted to spending Alana’s money before she discovered her account was severely depleted.
Lauryn filed for divorce from Joshua in August after six years together, as she claimed their marriage was ” in court documents obtained by The U.S. Sun.
HARD TIMES
The former couple will share custody of their four children: Ella, six; Bentley, three; and twins Sylus and Stella, two.
Tragedy struck the family last December when June’s oldest daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell died seven months after being diagnosed with a rare aggressive cancer. She was 29.
Anna was estranged from June for many years, with the mother-daughter duo reconciling after the diagnosis.
Anna is survived by her daughters, Kaitlyn, 10, and Kylee, seven, who she shared with her ex-husband Michael.
Mama June is currently embroiled in a bitter legal battle with Michael over custody of Anna’s eldest daughter Kaitlyn.
Anna is also survived by her three sisters, Alana, Lauryn, and Jessica “Chubbs” Shannon, 26.
WHO IS ALANA’S BOYFRIEND?
Alana began dating Dralin three years ago, and the couple went public with their romance on Instagram in September 2021.
At the time, fans raised concerns over their age gap, after learning Alana was 16 and Dralin was 20 when they met.
The age of consent in the state of Georgia is 16.
Alana has previously defended her relationship, addressing criticism for “our age gap” and “because he’s black and I’m white,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
“I don’t care because, like, at the end of the day, my sister approves, his mom approves and we’re happy, so what fans got to say or what haters got to say, I don’t really care,” Alana said.
According to Dralin’s Facebook profile, he went to high school in McIntyre, Georgia, before enrolling at Lincoln Tech – an automotive-focused vocational training institute in Nashville, Tennessee.
