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Mama June Shannon Gets Temporary Custody Of Anna Cardwell's Daughter
June "Mama June" Shannon is easing into her caller normal.
Four months aft her girl Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell died pursuing a 10-month crab battle, the 44-year-old elaborate however beingness has changed since being awarded impermanent custody of granddaughter Kaitlyn.
"We took connected the work of an 11-year-old—making definite that she gets to schoolhouse and making definite that we marque beingness arsenic mean arsenic we tin for her," June told E! News successful an exclusive interview. "Also conscionable getting into a regular ourselves and trying to support the consistency with Kaitlyn due to the fact that that's what she needs—structure and consistency."
After filing a petition successful Georgia for a alteration successful kid custody and "for exigency ex parte relief" successful January, the Mama June: Family Crisis prima said Kaitlyn moved successful with her a period earlier Anna died of signifier 4 adrenal carcinoma and that she's been caring for her since.
Anna ne'er publically shared the individuality of Kaitlyn's father, though she raised her with ex-husband Michael Cardwell—with whom she shares girl Kylee, 8—before the couple's 2017 split. Since Anna's death, Kylee has been surviving with Michael.
June, who revealed that Anna didn't motion immoderate paperwork formalizing Kaitlyn's guardianship during her wellness battle, emphasized however analyzable taking connected the parental relation is for her and hubby Justin Stroud.
"I archer Kaitlyn each the time, 'I'll ne'er regenerate your mother,'" June recalled. "I accidental this each the time, but Kylee shouldn't person to beryllium raised by Kylee's dad. I shouldn't beryllium raising Kaitlyn. Anna should beryllium present raising her children. It's not just for immoderate of america that Anna's gone, particularly for her children."
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June—who is besides ma to Jessica Shannon, Lauryn Efrid and Alana Shannon—and Justin person besides been learning to re-prioritize themselves portion parenting Kaitlyn since Anna's death.
"Me and my hubby took her to chemo treatments, and we would spell each cheque connected her each the time," she explained. "Now, trying to marque your beingness a precedence again aft this happened has been pugnacious and an accommodation period."
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