Jill Duggar shared her story within the bombshell docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets — and extra of her family members have begun to chime in.
The 19 Kids and Counting alum sat down together with her husband, Derick Dillard, to shed gentle on her fundamentalist Christian upbringing within the four-episode particular, which hit Prime Video on June 2. Jill and her cousin Amy Duggar had been among the many many contributors interviewed about their connection to the controversial group the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP).
Shortly after the docuseries — which included emotional revelations from Jill about her brother Josh Duggar‘s previous scandals — was launched, the Arkansas native shared a screenshot of a DM she obtained from a viewer.
“The piece that is hard about your message is that you are claiming to be ‘harmed’ by parents who were motivated to do good and bring you up with a good life,” the consumer wrote, mentioning Jill’s mother and father — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — “thought they were doing the right thing” for his or her household.
The message continued: “If your [sic] gonna tell the truth how about the whole truth?”
Jill posted her reply through her Instagram Story. “Thanks. I’m not minimizing or comparing my trauma to other people’s trauma,” she wrote. “But one person’s difficult experience also shouldn’t be invalidated by another’s. Both are real. Both are harmful and need to be addressed.”
The Counting On alum additionally acknowledged that there might be “beauty amidst the trials,” asserting that she nonetheless has love for her household regardless of her highs and lows.
Jill beforehand opened up about her strained dynamic together with her 18 siblings and their mother and father in 2020, three years after selecting to depart Counting On. “We found out we didn’t have as much control over our lives as it related to the show and stuff, as we needed,” she defined in a YouTube Q&A on the time.
She and Derick delved additional into their choice in Shiny Happy People, confessing that cash performed a component of their exit. Jill claimed that she was “never paid” for being on both of her household’s TLC reveals — each of which had been canceled amid controversy — however that Jim Bob allegedly tried to work out a deal to pay his older youngsters a lump sum.
“In order to receive that, you had to sign another deal with my dad [and] his production company, Mad Family Inc.,” she claimed. “It would be [for], like, forever. We were automatically like, ‘We’re done.’”
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Several of Jill’s brothers and sisters have stored quiet about her involvement the docuseries — however others have shared their two cents. Scroll all the way down to see which Duggar relations have responded to Shiny Happy People:
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