"I Was Honey Boo Boo" explores Alana Thompson's life behind the scenes, dealing with her mother's addiction and the pressures of childhood fame.

In 2012, a six-year-old girl purportedly drew more viewers than the Republican National Convention. That girl was Alana Thompson, better known by her stage name, “Honey Boo Boo.” When Thompson first burst onto the scene in an episode of TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras with her larger-than-life personality and seemingly endless supply of country catchphrases,

Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson is speaking out after her mother, June “Mama June” Shannon, took $35,000 of her Dancing With the Stars earnings at the height of her cocaine addiction. “There was no, ‘I’m sorry,