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Mama June Shannon has struggled to rebuild relationships with her daughters. But when Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell was diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma in January 2023, she really stepped up. Sources told TMZ that the pair had actually started mending bridges a year earlier, with Mama June apparently refusing to leave her daughter's side after cancer was discovered in Cardwell's liver, kidney, and lungs. In addition to watching Cardwell's kids, sources claimed that she had begun to supportively accompany her daughter to doctors' appointments.

The two fell out back in 2014 when Mama June reportedly got back together with her ex, Mark McDaniel after he spent 10 years in prison for molesting an eight-year-old girl. Cardwell told TMZ that she was the girl who had been abused by him and that her relationship with her mom was done. Mama June denied dating McDaniel, but TLC was still quick to cancel "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." 

In the years that followed, they would see each other occasionally, but their bond was far from fixed. In 2021, Cardwell told The Sun she hadn't really talked to her mom since 2014. "I've never had a conversation with her where she was like, 'Oh I'm sorry for what happened or, I'm sorry for this,'" she shared. "It's like she is always brushing everything off and acting like everything is fine and nothing happened." In 2015, Cardwell attempted to sue Mama June for not paying her what she was owed for her time on the show, per ET.

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