Jill Duggar is lastly giving particulars on how her dad Jim Bob Duggar stole her actuality TV cash!
As Perezcious readers know, Jill and her husband Derick Dillard had been the celebs of the 19 Kids and Counting spinoff that was initially titled Jill and Jessa: Counting On. The TLC present made financial institution with each the unique and the comply with-up present raking in as much as $25,000-$45,000 per EPISODE. You’d suppose that as a result of Jill’s identify was within the title, she’d be getting a pleasant sum of that money, however she revealed in 2020 she and her hubby didn’t see a dime till means later after they’d taken their problem to court docket:
“That’s when we got an attorney involved and finally recovered some of the money. It was a process.”
Yeah, her mother and father had been pocketing all the cash whereas she and her sister Jessa Duggar had been doing all of the work! The youngsters by no means received their cash till after they took authorized motion in 2017, however even then she stated on her YouTube channel it was solely breadcrumbs:
“It probably ended up being a little more than minimum wage. But we were able to recover at least something.”
Wow. All that cash they made and simply poof…
But how did all this come about? Well, as we all know very nicely now, Jim Bob is an individual whose conduct is kind of scummy, and this simply additional proves it. According to Jill within the new Prime docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, her father tricked her into signing a contract:
“It was just at the end of the kitchen table. [My dad was like,] ‘Hey, I just need you guys to sign these.’ I didn’t know what it was for.”
Later on, the fourth eldest Duggar little one came upon she’d signed “comittment of her life to the show” for the following 5 years. She alleges all negotiations made with TLC solely included Jim Bob and never any of the children. Due to this contract and having “no choice” within the matter, all of her personal life was now public, whether or not she appreciated it or not. Her husband stated:
“We were just told when to be there and what was going on and what we needed to do.”
So terrible. And sadly, her father’s contract actually took full benefit of her complete life. She recalled giving start to her first little one, her son Israel, and irrespective of how a lot she expressed she didn’t need it to be filmed, she couldn’t flip away digital camera crews legally:
“A few weeks out from the birth, the production company is like, ‘Hey so we’re thinking about the birth, are you good with us having one person there?’ I was like, ‘Well actually, we don’t want you guys there at all.’ They were like, “At all?’ They were shocked. I knew for sure nobody was going to be in my delivery room. Nobody. And nobody would be there for the labor. I didn’t want any of that.”
Derick then went on to disclose it was hopeless, and even once they requested for his or her cash for the footage, it had already been paid to somebody else:
“We basically lost. They were gonna get what they wanted.”
Jill even admitted they did a whole lot of the footage in their very own time:
“They gave us cameras and they were like, ‘You guys shoot.’ We did diary cams, we did a lot of work so they got the footage.”
And not a single cent of cost?! Not even a thanks?! Just infuriating.
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The actuality TV star stated she felt like she’d wasted all this time in her life:
“No check, no cash, no nothing. For seven-and-a-half years of my adult life, I was never paid. We were taken advantage of.”
And issues solely received worse when she and her household moved to El Salvador in 2016, as a result of she alleges the community pressured them to maneuver again house so they might do “more shoots”:
“It was a matter of principle, like, no, we’re gonna stay here,’ Jill recalled. ‘That was the first time we really put our foot down and said no. I’ve never said no to our family before. I said, ‘No. We cannot do what you’re asking us to do.’ It was one of those ah-hah moments for us.”
But that’s when Jim Bob reappeared — and he had some horrible information:
“They were basically like, ‘You have to.’ Then my dad sends us the [papers we signed] and the obligations section of the contract. At first I was like, ‘Someone forged my signature,’ but then I look at it and I’m like, ‘That is my signature.’ That’s when we realized what we had signed the day before we got married. That wasn’t what I thought I was signing.’”
After they went again house in Arkansas to do the shoot, they requested Jim Bob for some compensation, as Derick stated:
“If we’re giving up something then we should get something in return. Jim Bob was like, ‘What do you want? $10 an hour?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know, what’s it worth?’ And he was like, ‘What’s your price?’ He was like, ‘I can pay you $10 an hour.’ That’s when we asked to talk to TLC.”
According to Jill, her dad’s publicist Chad Gallagher stated they weren’t allowed to speak to TLC with out him. Eventually, after familial points, Jim Bob allegedly supplied to pay the couple a “lump sum,” however they turned it down as a result of they’d need to signal one other contract to get the cash — after which they “parted ways” with the community:
“In order to receive that, you had to sign another deal with my dad and his production company, Mad Family Inc., which would last like forever. We were automatically like, we’re done.”
Derick added:
“We found out on social media that our relationship, if we ever had a relationship with TLC, came to an end at that time.”
We can’t say we blame them for not desirous to signal one other piece of paper from Jim Bob!
Even extra creepily, although, after their departure from TLC, Derick acquired texts from a burner telephone reprimanding him for going in opposition to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar‘s needs. The messages, from somebody claiming to be a household good friend, learn:
“Jim Bob or Michelle have never done you wrong nor Jill. You are returning evil for the unbelievable privilege of marrying their most beautiful and intelligent daughter, who is the fruit of their lives. You were a trusted man to be given the high privilege of courting and marrying their treasured daughter, godly, well trained, talented, capable. Never was there a girl like Jill.”
“As a son-in-law, Jill’s parents are also yours, and biblically, whatever you do to them is the same as your own parents. The mistreatment of parents is forbidden in both the Old and New Testament, with death penalties ascribed to those violations and wrong actions to parents. And the reverse promise, that things will not go well for you.”
Gross AF. She’s not their property to be traded! And “well trained”?? Barf. Seriously, cease talking about ladies like they’re pets. And that second textual content simply sounds much more culty.
When requested if these messages had been from Jim Bob, Derick stated:
“I don’t know, I can’t speculate.”
Wow.
Some critically tousled stuff! Just whenever you thought it couldn’t get any worse for these poor youngsters…
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