Amy Duggar King revealed that she reached out to her cousin Josh Duggar‘s spouse, Anna Duggar, amid the household’s authorized drama.
“With Anna, I’ve tried. I’ve despatched textual content messages, I’ve despatched emails. I’ve tried, I’ve tried,” King, 36, advised Folks in an interview printed on Monday, June 5. “I don’t know if her cellphone’s being monitored. I don’t know if she’s turned it off [and] she’s gotten a brand new one. I’ve tried on Instagram, I’ve tried on Twitter. She needs nothing to do with it in any respect, and that’s her resolution.”
King went on to say that she and her husband, Dillon, provided Anna, 34, a spot to stick with her youngsters after Josh, 35, was arrested in April 2021, however she’s by no means gotten a response. “I provided it, and that’s actually all I can do is simply hope and pray that she opens her eyes. That’s all you are able to do,” King defined, noting that she has not reached out to Josh. “Actually, it sucks. It simply sucks as a result of I wish to be there and I wish to assist, and it doesn’t should contain cameras or fame or something. It’s simply household reaching out to household. Sadly, she doesn’t see it.”
Josh was sentenced to 151 months in jail in Could 2022 following his December 2021 conviction on one depend of receiving and possessing youngster pornography. In March, his sentence was prolonged by almost two months, that means he’ll now be launched in October 2032.
The previous TLC persona’s spouse, Anna, has stayed comparatively quiet since Josh started serving out his sentence FCI Seagoville in Texas. Forward of Josh’s sentencing, Anna wrote a letter to the choose asking for a lighter sentence, calling her husband a “loving, supportive and caring father.”
Anna and the 19 Children and Counting alum are the dad and mom of seven youngsters: Mackynzie, 13, Michael, 11, Marcus, 10, Meredith, 7, Mason, 5, Maryella, 3, and Madyson, 19 months.
King has beforehand been outspoken about her well-known household, saying in Could 2022 that she believes Josh deserves a harsher sentence than he obtained. “Twelve and a half years isn’t sufficient,” she stated in a press release after his sentencing. “However I hope that each single second he’s there looks like an eternity.”
The Arkansas native participated within the new Amazon Prime docuseries Shiny Glad Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques, which debuted on Friday, June 2, and chronicles the household’s scandals and the controversy surrounding their spiritual beliefs. Forward of the present’s launch, Josh’s dad and mom, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, slammed the “unhappy” sequence, which additionally stars their daughter Jill Duggar.
“Like different households, ours too has skilled the thrill and heartbreaks of life, simply in a really public format,” the pair wrote in a press release shared by way of their web site on Thursday, June 1. “This ‘documentary’ paints a lot and so many in a derogatory and sensationalized approach as a result of sadly that’s the course of leisure nowadays.”
