What happened to Alana Thompson? Honey Boo Boo reportedly recovering after accident

Alana Thompson, also known as “Honey Boo Boo”, is recovering after a recent car accident, her mother, Mama June Shannon, revealed on social media. In an Instagram post shared Friday, September 26, Shannon said her 20-year-old daughter had been T-boned while driving.

“Somebody actually wasn’t paying attention and T-boned her on her road. They are always speeding on the road,” she explained.

Shannon went on to note that the driver, a 23-year-old man, admitted fault.

“But looking at the 23-year-old boy, I have to give him credit with credit. I just do, he admitted that he was going 40 miles an hour and probably wasn’t paying attention,” she added.

Alana Thompson was taken to the hospital after the crash. According to her mother, she was “fine” but continued to deal with headaches and back pain.

“She was hit on the driver’s side of her car. It could have been a lot worse,” Shannon wrote. “She was took [sic] to the hospital. She does have back pain. She is having some headache issues.”

Mama June says Alana Thompson still battling pain after accident but will be okay

In the caption of her Instagram post, Mama June Shannon revealed how shaken she had felt after learning of Alana Thompson’s car accident. Shannon said it had been “a crazy day” since 3 p.m., adding that moments like this made her “hate” that Alana was “23 hours away.” Despite the distance, she acknowledged that her daughter was “following her dreams.” Shannon admitted that, as a mother, getting the call about the crash had been tough, but she assured followers that Alana Thompson would be fine.

“She is resting. It could’ve been a lot worse than it was. She is banged up a little bit but other than that she is OK [it was her] first car wreck, she was just going to go get her hair done and her phone call was to the police or second phone call was to her clinical director because tomorrow would’ve been her first day that she would’ve started clinicals and she still saying that she’s gonna get up in the morning and go we will see but headed to Denver to get her rental car get the car situation figured out and making sure that she is OK,” Shannon wrote.

Thompson is currently enrolled at Regis University, where she has been working toward a nursing degree. Back in May 2025, she told People that she had long hoped to move beyond her television fame.

“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 explained.

Alana Thompson recalls childhood fame, family turmoil, and moving forward

Alana Thompson was 5, filming for TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, when she threw out a line that became unforgettable:

“A dollar made me holler, honey boo boo!”

That quick remark gave her the nickname “Honey Boo Boo”, and it followed her everywhere.

“I don’t know why but I said it off the top of my head, Honey Boo Boo’ stuck and she’s been there forever,” she told People.

Soon after, TLC handed her family a spinoff. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo premiered in 2012, spotlighting Alana, her mother June “Mama June” Shannon, her sisters Anna, Jessica, and Lauryn, and her father Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson. It was initially pitched as a look at a small-town Southern family, but over time, the story evolved into something darker.

Alana opened up about that history in I Was Honey Boo Boo, a Lifetime biopic that aired on May 17. “I’m a little nervous,” she admitted before the premiere. Now a nursing student living with her longtime boyfriend, Dralin Carswell, she said she wanted honesty without cruelty.

“I did not want this movie to be throwing punches at my mama and making her out to be the bad guy, but I didn’t hold back and if she gets mad, at the end of the day it’s the truth,” she explained.

Mama June’s battles with addiction were among the most difficult chapters. Around 2019, as Alana entered her teens, she noticed troubling changes at home.

“I noticed something was off about her,” she recalled.

“She started locking her doors which really made me think, ‘Oh, what is she doing?’”

That same year, Mama June and her then-boyfriend Eugene “Geno” Doak were arrested on drug charges. The headlines spilled into Alana’s school life.

“People were like, ‘I saw your mama on the news with a busted tooth, strung out, I’m like, ‘Great, like I didn’t see that too,’” she said.

Despite the chaos, Alana Thompson pushed forward. With the support of her sister, Lauryn, who took custody in 2022, she focused on her studies and graduated in 2023.