So, here we are—Alana Thompson, better known to some as “Honey Boo Boo,” just had a close call that makes you wonder if Mercury wasn’t playing some nasty tricks on the traffic lights. On a day when the stars seemed to be moonwalking in retrograde, Alana got T-boned right out of her own driveway in Denver—cue the collective gasp. Now, you gotta ask yourself: is it just bad luck or the cosmos reminding us to watch the road AND our back? At only 20, and juggling nursing school, Alana’s resilience is nothing short of stellar. Mom June’s Instagram confession—“your stomach drops and all you can hear is someone hollering”—really hits home, doesn’t it? Thankfully, she’s okay, just nursing some aches and headaches, but this incident sure left us all wide-eyed. Care to dive into the full cosmic-car crash story? LEARN MORE
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Alana Thompson, the former child beauty pageant contestant and long-time reality star once known as “Honey Boo Boo,” is recovering after being at the center of a car accident.
The 20-year old’s mother, June Shannon, revealed in an Instagram post on Friday, September 26 that her daughter was T-boned while pulling out of her driveway in Denver.
Scary stuff.
“Somebody actually wasn’t paying attention and T-boned her on her road,” Mama June told followers, speaking directly to the camera in the video shared. “They are always speeding on the road.”
Thankfully, Shannon said Alana was “lucky,” as the 23-year-old man who was driving the other vehicle confessed he was “going 40 miles an hour and probably wasn’t paying attention.”
Continued the We TV personality:
“Alana is fine.
“She was hit on the driver’s side of her car. It could have been a lot worse. She was [taken] to the hospital. She does have back pain, she is having some headache issues, but we are headed to Denver to be able to get her a rental car and to get her set.”
Thompson — who does NOT get along well with her mom — is currently a student at Regis University, where she is pursuing a degree in nursing.
“I just always told myself you know that you want to do something better with your life and bigger with your life than just being on TV, so you’ve got to get up and go, you’ve got to graduate so you can make it to college and be the nurse that you want to be,” she told People Magazine in May 2025 of her decision to pursue higher education.
In the caption of her Instagram post, meanwhile, Shannon shared more details about the crash and how she reacted when she learned had transpired.
Stating that she disdaine living SO many hours away from her youngest daughter, Mama June said:
“When you get that phone call … your stomach drops and all you can hear is someone hollering.”
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