Mama June and boyfriend Geno Doak appear in court with hours notice as they face YEARS in jail

Mama June and boyfriend Geno Doak looked anxious as they arrived to court, after they were given less than 24 hours notice from their lawyer. 

The new episode of Mama June: Road to Redemption on Friday began with the 41-year-old reality star and her boyfriend, 45, preparing to appear in front of a judge after they were caught with a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges. 

Doak, who was charged with felony possession of crack cocaine and a misdemeanor crack pipe charge, seemed particularly nervous.  

As they got out of the car, he asked the mother-of-four if she ‘was okay.’

‘Hell no, I’m not!’ she replied as she held onto a number of letters and character references, which confirmed they were both ‘clean’ and sober.

Recalling the last time they were in court, Mama June said they ‘behaved in the courtroom,’ but ‘made a big scene’ outside. 

In a flashback, Doak can be seen shouting he was not guilty and that ‘they owe us a million dollars.’ 

‘I mean, maybe that wasn’t the right thing to do,’ she scoffed, while Doak hoped the judge would forgive him as he was not in the ‘right frame of mind’ at the time.   

When a producer asked the pair how they were feeling, Mama June said their lawyer had them ‘really concerned’ and that they had ‘no idea what the f**k’ was going to happen.

‘Honestly, I’m nervous,’ Mama June reiterated as she prepared to go inside to plead her case in a patterned face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘I could do two years and Geno could do ten years.’

Mama June said they were planning to get a continuance because they were not prepared and ‘had no idea’ they ‘had to be at court.’ 

‘We’re not prepared,’ she said during a confessional. ‘I don’t feel comfortable going in there.’ 

Meanwhile, June’s sister-in-law, Janice, joined Sugar Bear (born Mike Thompson) and his wife, Jennifer Thompson, to talk about his 15-year-old daughter Alana, who has been living with her older sister Pumpkin, 21. 

Additionally, Jennifer reveals Sugar Bear was rushed to the hospital a couple of months ago and spent ‘five days in a diabetic coma.’   

‘Mike is ordering all this food he should not be eating,’ Jennifer points out in a confessional. ‘He just don’t want to take care of himself.’

As her man eats a funnel cake, she tells him she fears he could die. 

Still, Janice, seems more concerned with Alana and asks how the teenager is doing, who has not seen her mother in over a year. 

Jennifer responds: ‘The last time that we were at her house, it was a big blowout.’  

‘That was months ago, baby. Leave it alone,’ Sugar Bear interjects. 

‘She had the nerve to call me an effing bitch,’ Jennifer tells Janice, who looks in disbelief.     

The episode then pans to Mama June and Doak leaving court in high sprits after being granted a continuance. 

‘We got a continuance to the next calendar term,’ Mama June explained to the cameras with a beaming grin. 

To celebrate not sitting in jail, she tells Doak they need to find her children.  

‘But you don’t even know where they live,’ he says. 

She points out she still knows ‘somebody’ that does, which ends up being her sister. 

At lunch with Janice, Jennifer detailed just how estranged her husband and his daughter had become, noting she blocked his phone number.  

‘Every text message comes back unavailable because she blocked him,’  Jennifer said, which has been almost ‘unbearable’ for Sugar Bear. 

After noticing Sugar Bear was taking awhile to return back to their table from the restroom, Jennifer finds him slumped over and feeling ‘faint’ in a bathroom stall. 

‘Is it your blood sugar?’ she asks, looking distraught, but her husband simply replies he didn’t know and that he forget his insulin at home. 

‘You forgot the most important thing at home,’ she panics, while a producer volunteers to call an ambulance. 

‘Get up! Let’s go see a doctor, now. Mike! Can you walk? Get up, let me see,’ she urges as he groans. 

She ends up calling him ‘hardheaded’ and slammed him for not taking better care of himself.  

‘What is wrong with you?’ she asks. ‘I’m not doing this with you again. You’ve got to be this little old man that somebody’s got to watch after like a two-year-old.’ 

In response, Sugar Bear says: ‘I didn’t even eat the bread.’ 

‘I don’t want to see another milkshake in your hand!’ she fires.   

Desperate to see her kids, Mama June says she is ‘willing to anything at this point’ and continues to tease she knows someone who knows Pumpkin’s new address. 

‘This person might not be happy to see me, but I don’t care. I want to see the girls,’ the star, who was eight-months sober at the time, said. 

Doak, on the other hand, said he saw their quest ‘going bad, real quick.’ 

‘I thought going into this court case was nerve-racking, but this is gonna rack my nerves even more,’ Mama June said before showing up her sister Joanne Shannon’s house. 

Her sister, known as ‘Doe Doe,’ said she was hurt after Mama June did not text her that she was ‘okay’ or bother to reach out at all in months.

‘So what you gonna do about Alana?’ she asked. ‘You just gonna kick your teenage daughter out of your life?’ 

Mama June says Alana has the choice to come to Florida with her as she continues to work on her sobriety.

‘She has a lot of repairing to do,’ Joanne said in a confessional. ‘She ain’t nothing but selfish.’ 

Fearful her sister could die amid new health issues, which require a walker, Joanne calls Pumpkin, but is hesitant to give her niece’s address. 

Joanne recommends she call Dr. Ish, whose calls they always answer. 

At Pumpkin’s house, Mama June’s kids exercise in the backyard by running laps, jumping jacks and squats. 

Alana’s phone rings and she tells the other she missed four calls from Sugar Bear. 

She explains she is upset with him for wanting her to move in with him and Jennifer, even though she prefers living with Pumpkin. 

Joanne is still stressed after seeing Mama June, but Pumpkin misses her call. 

Mama June talks to Doak at a gas station about potentially calling Dr. Ish to reunite with her kids, where she is spotted by her sister-in-law Janice. 

‘June, is that you?’ Janice calls from her car in disbelief, before Mama June jokingly asked if she was tracking her on a GPS.

They got into an immediate spat, which involved June accusing her of coming back to Georgia to buy drugs and saying she was a ‘piece of sh*t.

Alana, Pumpkin and her three-year-old Ella arrive at their aunt’s home, where she informs them Mama June was in town.  

‘She doesn’t deserve that right to come back in and just be like, ‘What’s their address,’ Pumpkin said. 

Alana says she is excited to see her mother, now that she’s sober again, but Pumpkin thinks it’s too soon. 

Once home, Pumpkin calls her husband Joshua Efird to update him on her mother. 

Mama June returns to her home in Florida and speaks to a counselor over Zoom about trying to find her children. 

Her counselor, Jessica, who advised Mama June to give her children space last week, was shocked. 

She then discussed her sister’s suggestion to call Dr. Ish, who Mama June calls a ‘mother f**ker’ that wanted her to be ‘held against’ her will. 

‘He was not trying to hold you against your will. You were just in the enthralls of addiction in that moment,’ Mama June’s therapist reminds her. 

She continues: ‘So you were in a negative space and had a negative connotation of Dr. Ish. He has been working with the kids. What’s the harm in trying to reach out to him and ask him, you know, how the girls are doing, if you can’t get in touch with them?’

Mama June is torn and says she’ll considers the idea, but Doak urges her to pick up the phone to call Dr. Ish.  

After a lot of encouragement, Mama June makes the call and Dr. Ish answers and she immediately asks what he has been telling her girls. 

‘June, I’ve been telling them what they need to do to keep themselves safe from a mom who’s been inconsistent in their life,’ he tells her. 

Dr. Ish explains: ‘So, if they’re not picking up the phone, that’s a decision that they’re making based on your behavior.’  

Mama June tells Dr. Ish he is her ‘last resort’ to reconnect with her daughters.

He tells her: ‘Let me just be very clear with you. This is not something you’re going to be able to half do, okay? Your relationship with those young ladies is gonna be just like your relationship with your sobriety.’ 

‘You got to be constantly working on both, or you’re not going to have either one,’ he says, before agreeing to help.  

Dr. Ish calls Pumpkin to say he spoke with Mama June, but Pumpkin immediately declines the opportunity. 

Alana, however, screams out to Dr. Ish: ‘Don’t you think I should be able to see her?’