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Mama June<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson<\/a> and <\/span>Jessica Shannon<\/a> are recalling\u00a0<\/span>Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell<\/a>‘s <\/span>final days before her death<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n ET’s Rachel Smith spoke with the reality stars ahead of the return of\u00a0<\/span>Mama June: Family Crisis<\/em><\/a>, and they gave insight into how Anna’s last days battling cancer played out. Anna\u00a0<\/span>died in December<\/a> after battling <\/span>stage 4 adrenal carcinoma<\/a>. The <\/span>mom of two<\/a> was 29.<\/span><\/p>\n In the days leading up to Anna’s death, her family recalled, she wanted to take a trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, despite the possible ramifications of such an adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n “We took a family trip to Gatlinburg in the end of November. We were only home four days after that [before she died],” Mama June told ET. “We knew the risk of taking Anna to Gatlinburg, but she kept begging us.”<\/span><\/p>\n “The hospice nurse did let us know this is going to lessen her time, taking this massive trip to Gatlinburg [because] that’s stress on her body,” Lauryn noted, before Mama June chimed in, “But she wanted it, so we did.”<\/span><\/p>\n When the group returned from the trip, things quickly declined for Anna.<\/span><\/p>\n “[She was] having panic attacks because she feels like she can’t breathe,” Lauryn said. “… She [couldn’t] even lie down because the cancer was so compressed on her organs that she had trouble breathing.”<\/span><\/p>\n Through it all, though, Anna kept her sense of humor.<\/span><\/p>\n “She was cracking jokes the day before. She was cracking jokes. She was like, ‘Mama, you’re being too damn loud!'” Alana recalled. “And then she wanted a steak so bad.\u00a0She knew for a fact that she wasn’t going to eat the steak, but she wanted the steak.”<\/span><\/p>\n While Anna’s immediate family was there through it all, she opted to keep the seriousness of her condition private from others because “she didn’t want sympathy,” Alana said.<\/span><\/p>\n “For her, I think, she needed the people that were there,” Lauryn said, with Jessica adding, “She always said, if you weren’t there in the beginning, she didn’t want you there in the end.”<\/span><\/p>\n Mama June admitted that she thinks about that “very awful” time “every day,” but noted that she and her family manage to feel Anna’s presence “all the time.”<\/span><\/p>\n “She’s right here with us today. We talk about her. [Jessica’s] got a tattoo. We keep her alive,” Mama June said, before Lauryn agreed, stating,\u00a0“I feel like we still very much keep her memory alive. We talk about her a lot.”<\/span><\/p>\n