Mama June Shares Why Daughter Anna Cardwell Stopped Cancer Treatments

“She said, ‘Okay, I’m not coming back and I want to do hospice care at home,’ and they finally signed,” June said. “We tried to do it a long time before.”

In January, June and her husband Justin Stroud were granted temporary custody of Kaitlyn, who she says moved in with her a month before Anna’s death and has been caring for her ever since.

“I tell Kaitlyn all the time, ‘I’ll never replace your mother,'” she told E! News. “I say this all the time, but Kylee shouldn’t have to be raised by her dad. I shouldn’t have to raise Kaitlyn. Anna should be here raising her kids. It’s not fair to any of us that ‘Anna is gone, especially for her children.’