Jill Duggar shared her story within the bombshell docuseries Shiny Comfortable Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques — and extra of her kinfolk have begun to chime in.
The 19 Children and Counting alum sat down together with her husband, Derick Dillard, to make clear 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 Primary Life Rules (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 acquired from a viewer.
“The piece that’s laborious about your message is that you’re claiming to be ‘harmed’ by dad and mom who had been motivated to do good and produce you up with a very good life,” the person wrote, declaring Jill’s dad and mom — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — “thought they had been doing the precise factor” for his or her household.
The message continued: “In case your [sic] gonna inform the reality how about the entire reality?”
Jill posted her reply by way of her Instagram Story. “Thanks. I’m not minimizing or evaluating my trauma to different folks’s trauma,” she wrote. “However one individual’s tough expertise additionally shouldn’t be invalidated by one other’s. Each are actual. Each are dangerous and must be addressed.”
The Counting On alum additionally acknowledged that there will be “magnificence 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 dad and mom in 2020, three years after selecting to depart Counting On. “We discovered we didn’t have as a lot management over our lives because it associated to the present and stuff, as we would have liked,” she defined in a YouTube Q&A on the time.
She and Derick delved additional into their choice in Shiny Comfortable Individuals, confessing that cash performed a component of their exit. Jill claimed that she was “by no means 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.
“As a way to obtain that, you needed to signal one other take care of my dad [and] his manufacturing firm, Mad Household Inc.,” she claimed. “It will be [for], like, perpetually. We had been routinely like, ‘We’re performed.’”
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A number of of Jill’s brothers and sisters have saved 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 Comfortable Individuals:
