#111 Her Mom Spent $500,000 on Crack & She Had to Take Custody of Honey Boo Boo - Pumpkin on 2 Goons

#111 Her Mom Spent $500,000 on Crack & She Had to Take Custody of Honey Boo Boo - Pumpkin on 2 Goons

July 15, 2026 · 58 min · Episode 114

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Pumpkin shares her tumultuous childhood and the challenges of taking custody of her sister amid her mother's drug addiction and reality TV fame.

On this episode of 2 Goons, Che Durena and JJ Liberman sit down with Pumpkin (@pumpkin) She grew up in a trailer park eating ketchup sandwiches, became a reality TV star overnight, and then had to take custody of her little sister while her mom was spending half a million dollars a year on crack. This one hits different. 👀 🍞 Growing up dirt poor before Honey Boo Boo → Trailer parks, ketchup sandwiches, and no idea that everything was about to change overnight 📺 How Toddlers in Tiaras turned into their own show → Her mom put her sister in beauty pageants, they ended up on Toddlers in Tiaras, and the network loved them so much they got their own show immediately 💥 Why the network loved them from day one → No filter, completely open, high energy — her mom was overweight and didn't care at all and that's exactly what made America fall in love with them 💊 Her mom blew over $500,000 on crack in a single year → She was so open about her drug use she would tell her own kids exactly what she was taking — and then the police found cocaine absolutely everywhere in her car in Alabama 👮 The Alabama arrest → The police officer said it looked like a coke bomb went off in the car — they…

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