Trigger Warning: The article includes mentions of sexual abuse.
If Mama June Shannon likes your man, you might want to rethink the relationship.
With former flames that include two men convicted of sexual crimes against children, the star of Mama June: Family Crisis probably isn’t the best judge of character, but that hasn’t stopped her from throwing her full support behind daughter Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Efird’s new man, Darrin Kitchens in a new interview with People.
“I’ve even said this to Darrin and Pumpkin’s face, unless he’s acting in a different way where I’m not around, he’s not gave me a reason to not like him being around the kids or him being around her,” June told the publication.
While June is happy with Pumpkin’s boyfriend, fans of the family are less enthusiastic, particularly with one detail Mama June disclosed about Darrin’s closeness to Pumpkin’s four young children.
“He gets up, he bathes them and takes Pumpkin’s kids out if they want to go out with him,” June told People. “They go out in the yard and play. We’ve been on family vacations.”
Commenters quickly shared how uncomfortable they were with the idea of Pumpkin’s new man already bathing her kids.
“I don’t know why anyone would let their very new boyfriend bathe their kids” wrote one. “That’s awful. Don’t do this ladies.”
“I wouldn’t want a new boyfriend bathing my children when they were young,” wrote another. “It’s just weird, weird that she’d want him too and weird that he would! Most men would not feel comfortable bathing a child that isn’t theirs!”
Darrin has multiple children of his own, which The Ashley discovered this summer when word of his relationship with Pumpkin first surfaced, though June only mentioned one daughter to People. He married and divorced the same woman three times and previously dated Keely Miller, who this summer dated Pumpkin’s ex — and Darrin’s cousin — Josh Efird. Keely recently welcomed a baby that may be Darrin’s.
Despite all this messiness, June is not only proudly in Darrin’s corner but happy to let the world know that she never approved of Pumpkin being with Josh. The two divorced in September after six years of marriage.
“I tell people this all the time, Pumpkin and Josh met when [they were] teenagers,” June told the publication. “I even tried not to get her to marry Josh years ago.”
She also blames Josh for causing a rift between her and her daughter.
“But as far as Pumpkin goes, I think our relationship has got better since her and Josh have separated,” June told People. “We do do more stuff together, and there’s not that consequence of like, ‘Oh, God. I hate my mom, I’ve got to listen to bitching.'”
June confirmed that Pumpkin and Josh’s split will be featured in the upcoming seventh season of ‘Mama June: Family Crisis.”
(Photos: Facebook; WEtv)
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June chose a man, who was clearly and knowingly molesting Anna, over her children. She is a piece of shit and an awful judge of character
Like this 🐷 has any ability to “approve” anything. She’s such a 🐮
So June likes this dude because he doesn’t put boundaries or question her like Josh did, ok.
This whole family is so trashy. It’s like they don’t know how to function in a normal, not messy way with normal, not messy people.
I’m sorry but June is always looking to blame someone for her failures, her actions are what caused the rift between her & Pumpkin, and her actions alone. All Josh did was voice reasonable concerns about how toxic June is to the rest of the family & he makes sense! June just doesn’t like hearing the truth.
If Pumpkin is happy with Darrin that’s great, at the end of the day we only see so much on the show & id imagine the cracks in the marriage have been showing for a while, TBF from what I’ve watched I just don’t think she respected Josh all that much in the end, especially when he spoke up about June. BUT hopefully they’ve both moved on, can coparent healthily & put the kids first.
However, I would not be letting no boyfriend bathe my young children, I’m sorry it’s just a no no.
June….. didn’t you date and move in a whole ass man who sexually abused your DAUGHTER?! And you didn’t approve of Josh? Get a fucking grip.
She blames her daughter’s ex husband for her estrangement from her daughter(s)?!? Coming from a woman whose type is active and recovered meth heads?!
Of course she sees nothing wrong with “new man” bathing her grandchildren, she dated her daughter’s abuser. Just gross.
Josh is a stand up guy! He took care of his responsibilities while pumpkin was out spending money and chasing her mom. Sounds as if he was done dirty, and will now not have that WE check. Sorry Josh!
“She also blames Josh for causing a rift between her and her daughter.” If anything, June is probably one of the big reasons for Josh and Pumpkin’s split. He was constantly voicing that she was toxic and he didn’t want to keep letting her back into their lives, but Pumpkin kept doing it again and again.
New boyfriends (even if they’re you kids’ cousin) don’t need to be bathing your kids. That’s common sense 101. Even if he isn’t a creep, it’s not good for the kids because they need to understand that random people shouldn’t see them naked.
@The Ashley- Did Josh and Keely split? Just wandering since the wording was that they “dated this summer.” Any word on when we’ll know if her baby is Darrin’s or not?