In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the Mama June: Family Crisis star, 45, discussed her granddaughter Kylee Madison, 8, living with her dad, Anna's ex-husband Michael Cardwell, in Alabama.

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MARTIN: Michael Shannon's new movie, "Eric Larue," will be out this spring. You can see him on tour, covering R.E.M.'s "Fables Of The Reconstruction" album this winter.

SHANNON: That is, yeah - particularly my daughters. I mean, that's the one thing, you know, that won't change, is I love them very much, and I always will. And they're my, you know, favorite people.

Michael Shannon is turning his own eyes behind the camera in his newest project. It's a movie called Eric LaRue and it's his directorial debut. The trailer for, "Broadwalk Empire." YouTube ...