Grab yer Great Value brand popcorn, y’all, because Mama June Shannon is spillin’ some behind-the-scenes tea on what really broke up her daughter Jessica‘s marriage to Shyann McCant!
As fans of ‘Mama June: Family Crisis‘ know, Jessica and Shyann announced their split in June— just days after their wedding episode aired. At the time, Jessica and Shyann claimed it was a mutual decision to divorce and vowed to remain friends.
On Tuesday, however, Mama June decided to expose the real reason for Jessica and Shyann’s split, announcing that Shyann cheated on Jessica (and not just with Jessica’s former brother-in-law Josh Efird)!
June— who many fans has accused of causing the breakup due to her meddling— took to social media to call out Shyann. She also exposed the woman Shyann was cheating on Jessica with. (The Ashley went ahead and cleaned up the “June Speak” so it’s semi-readable.)
“Well since I’m always to b[e] the blame for every relationship not working out and since it was shared publicly and y’all have been wanting to see who Shyann cheated with and left Jessica for, here you go,” June captioned a photo showing Jessica and Shyann with a group at a restaurant. “McKenzie is in the middle of them in the red shirt. Y’all are welcome so everyone can stop digging now.”
Jessica’s sister Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon— who exposed on the show that Jessica and Shyann had a threesome with her ex-husband Josh— reposted June’s post, along with the caption, “All I gotta say is…”, making it clear that she back what June was saying.
Jessica has remained silent since June’s post. (It does appear that she has maintained a relationship with Shyann’s niece, Harper, though. She posted photos with the girl to social media earlier this week.)
Although Jessica hasn’t commented on June’s post, Shyann did. Less than an hour after June accused Shyann of being a cheater (and exposed her alleged lady lover), Shyann made her own post. In it, she confessed that she had, indeed, been cheating on Jessica.
“Since June has made it everyone’s business, I’ll go ahead and address it,” Shyann wrote on Facebook. “I’m not going to make excuses for what I have done. What hasn’t been shared is that I had been asking Jessie for a divorce for months because I wasn’t happy. I expressed how I felt repeatedly, including that issues involving her mother were a big reason I wanted out.”
“Nothing changed, and despite asking for a divorce more than once, it wasn’t happening,” Shyann continued. “That doesn’t make what I did right, and I take full responsibility for my actions. But relationships are rarely as simple as they appear from the outside, and there was a lot more going on than people know.
“Most importantly, there are children involved on every side of this situation. They deserve privacy and peace. This is something that should have stayed between the people directly involved until we chose to speak on it ourselves. I’m not making this post to argue or justify my choices. I’m making it because only part of the story has been told.”
Shyann then slammed fans for attacking her when they don’t know “the full story.”
“That’s honestly crazy. You don’t have to agree with my decisions but dragging someone else through the mud over something you weren’t a part of isn’t right,” she wrote. “It seems like some people would rather turn someone else’s life into entertainment or make a dollar off the drama than remember there are real people and real kids involved.”
Shyann finished her post by wishing everyone involved “the best” and stating that she’s moving on with her life.
Pumpkin, however, is not moving on— at least not before slamming Shyann for what she wrote in her statement.
“The ‘we just want privacy’ excuse is actually wild,” Pumpkin wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. “Every single person involved knew exactly what they were signing up for when they chose the partners they chose. And let’s not forget—being creators is literally our job. Every shady post, every subtle jab, every bit of drama you choose to put online is content you profit from also. You can’t keep feeding the drama publicly and then suddenly expect everyone to respect ‘privacy’ when it benefits you.
“And before anyone twists my words—I’m not defending my sister either,” Pumpkin continued. “She looks like a clown sitting right beside them. But hey… what do I know?”
Naturally, June wasn’t done with the conversation either. She hit the comments section of Shyann’s post on Facebook to slam her soon-to-be-ex daughter-in-law and deny that she had any part in the failure of the marriage. (Again, The Ashley has done her best to clean up the “June Speak” to make it easier to read.)
“You blamed me but at the end of the day, Shyann, you and Jessica are adults. You were over the age of 18. I didn’t hold your hand when you got married February 21 of 2025,” June wrote, mentioning the date the girls were legally married off-camera. “I also did not hold your hand when you did that wedding in October in Florida. I told y’all if y’all were not ready then y’all should not even before y’all even went to the courthouse here in Jones County I told y’all to wait. And that is the truth.
“If you did not love Jessica and you do not want to be her then, why did you even marry her in the first place?” June continued. “That is my question [and] has been my question… At the end of the day, you are responsible for you. I didn’t tell you to go out and f**k around on Jessica just like I didn’t tell Pumpkin to go out and f**k Darren and I also did not tell y’all to have a threesome with Joshua Efird.”
June argued that Shyann knew what she was getting into when she started dating Jessica and appearing on the show. She also vowed to protect her daughter “at all costs.”
June went on to reveal that Shyann’s lady lover is also married.
“I think that both you and McKenzie done wrong because y’all are both married,” June wrote. “Y’all should’ve left the relationship first and then got together, but y’all do you what you do and stop blaming me for speaking my mind, for speaking what I know. I’ve stayed quiet for a long time and there’s a lot more that I could say on that post…”
June then revealed that McKenzie and Shyann had previously dated before Shyann and Jessica got together.
Shyann was not thrilled that June was airing out her dirty laundry on The Interwebs, so she stated in the comment section that Harper will no longer be allowed to go to June’s house.
“Harper [won’t] be in your home anymore! And that is bc of this right here!” Shyann wrote. “You are right; we are both grown and could have posted on our own! I’m not saying what was done was right but it wasn’t your place to put anything out and if anything you just made everything worse for Jessie!”
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Shyann took quite a beating in the comment section, with many pointing out that she could have filed for divorce, even if Jessica wasn’t on-board. (To date, it does not appear that either Shyann or Jessica has filed for divorce.)
Others pointed out that Shyann created havoc for Jessica and then left her for someone else.
“Not you coming into Jessie’s life and sleeping with her BIL, damaging her relationship with her sister for life then cheating and dipping lol,” one person wrote.
“June seen right through you and she’s blind! Girl bye,” another person (hilariously) wrote.
June also condemned Shyann for saying she will restrict access to Harper because of June’s post.
“Using a child or a child that you have raised as leverage for somebody to act right is crazy … at the end of the day grow up be a f**king woman. Allow your child to be loved by everyone that can be loved on her and stop acting like a kid yourself and using that child as leverage,” June wrote. “It’s very sick so anyone who does that is crazy…”
Stay tuned…
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3 Responses
june and pumpkin are such huge losers, u already feel like sh!t and embarrassed enough when you’ve been cheated on but to have your cringe sister and cringier mom expose it to the world??? pumpkin needs to be reminded more often that she has become exactly like june
If you’ve wanted a divorce for months, just leave. You’re an adult. Don’t blame the other person. I do think Jess is a genuine person. Also Justin. The rest are garbage.
I never thought that I would agree with June Shannon about anything, but using a child as a “prawn” to punish Jessica and the rest of the family is vile.
These are all train wreck people, but Jessica seems to wear her heart on her sleeve and I hope that she finds someone who truly loves her.