June Shannon spent $750,000 on drugs before rehab.
June Shannon
The 'Toddlers and Tiaras' star is now 14 months sober following a serious battle with addiction where she would spend thousands on drugs each week.
Speaking to Us Weekly, she confessed: “I spent, like, $750K. I had a lot of money saved up because that’s just me, I’m just a frugal type of person."
However, Mama June admitted that she was more likely to have spent "$1.5 million" over the years as her addiction began over 20 years ago."
She continued: “You gotta think about it, like, literally since 2000 into 2017 [and into January 2020]. 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. 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.
“The only difference in me using versus somebody who doesn’t have the money that would be homeless, or something, is I just had an abundance of money to do more of the drug.”
Mama June, 41, was arrested for drug possession in 2019 and has since focused on rebuilding her finances and reconnecting with her family after their relationship became strained during her addiction.
She said: “I don’t have a lot. I’m trying to rebuild myself financially. I went to rehab with a $1.75 to my name. I’m able to pay my rent. I’m able to pay my light bill and able to do that and have just a little bit of money saved up. My goal is to live day by day. I would like to get some of this weight off of me and, you know, eventually, it will happen, but my sobriety and mending my relationships with the kids [are what] I’m getting back into.”