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As for Mama June's relationship with McDaniel, Cardwell tells us, "She's always loved him," and adds, "She's using Sugar Bear to cover her ass."

The 20-year-old also told E! News that there are trust funds for all the girls (noting that $30,000 was set aside from show earnings), and claimed that she called the bank and was told there was only $17.90 in the account. "I have a feeling Mama used that money to buy a car or buy him what he wanted," she tells us.

However, Mama June denies these claims and tells E! News, "Not true. I have never brought a car for him and all her money is there, beside the money I have given her to live on—$400 every month and pay her $475 each month for cell phone bills for the last two years. That's the only money I have taken out of there."

Cardwell initially made her remarks to People magazine in a recent interview. Shannon has denied reports that she and her ex McDaniel, who registered as a sex offender in March after serving 10 years in prison for a 2004 aggravated child molestation conviction, were back together.

People quoted Cardwell as saying that when she was 8 years old, McDaniel dated her mother and "would try and touch me and all that stuff."

—Additional reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum

