Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard Courtesy of Jill Duggar/Instagram
That’s her man. Jill Duggar gushed over husband Derick Dillard following the discharge of Prime Video’s docuseries, Shiny Joyful Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques.
“☀️I’m so extremely grateful for my man @derickdillard ❤️,” Duggar, 32, captioned a photograph of her and Dillard, 34, sharing a kiss through Instagram on Monday, June 5.
She added, “His assist means the world to me. ☀️ Thanks babe! 😘💞.”
The candy message comes after she and the lawyer — who married in 2014 — spoke out in Shiny Joyful Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques, which debuted on Thursday, June 2. Jill is one among many former followers of the Institute in Fundamental Life Ideas (IBLP) that spoke out in regards to the Duggar household’s rise to fame as a conservative household on TLC’s 19 Children and Counting. The sequence additionally delved into the Duggars’ fall from grace amid Josh Duggar‘s little one molestation accusations and his later little one pornography conviction.
After 10 seasons, TLC canceled 19 Children and Counting in 2015 after Josh was accused of molesting a number of women when he was an adolescent — a few of whom have been his sisters. Jill and her sister Jessa Duggar have been later recognized as victims, and so they appeared on Megyn Kelly‘s present on the time to defend their household.
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard Courtesy of Prime Video
Jill confessed in Shiny Joyful Folks that she felt pressured to downplay her brother’s actions for the sake of her household. “It’s not one thing I’m pleased with,” she stated of her sit-down interview. “If I hadn’t felt obligated to love, one, do it for the sake of the present and two, do it for the sake of my dad and mom, I wouldn’t have achieved it.”
The household continued to shoot a actuality present, repackaged as Counting On with a much bigger give attention to Jessa and Jill. Nevertheless, the midwife went on to assert that she “by no means acquired any payout” for her work on both one of many reveals. “No examine, no money, no nothing. For seven and a half years of my grownup life, I used to be by no means paid,” she alleged. “We have been taken benefit of.”
Derick and Jill additionally recalled asking TLC for compensation after the start of their first son, Israel, was filmed in 2015. In line with Jill and Dillard (who later welcomed sons Samuel, 5, and Freddy, 11 months), the community stated they paid the household — so the cash allegedly went to her father, Jim Bob Duggar.
For his half, Jim Bob and spouse Michelle Duggar launched an announcement slamming Shiny Joyful Folks as “derogatory and sensationalized.”
The youthful couple is anticipated to delve additional into their actuality TV previous when their memoir, Counting the Price, hits cabinets later this 12 months.
Jill defined through Instagram that the e book will cowl “the challenges we now have confronted, together with lack of respect for boundaries, greed, manipulation, and betrayal, usually are not that a lot completely different than what many individuals in our viewers have confronted.
She added, “Nevertheless, 15+ years of actuality tv, undergirded by secrecy and lies, is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the hearth of our battle. 📚 Because of time, tears, fact, and remedy, God has begun to heal our wounds into scars. Although we might have by no means chosen this path, and it has price us dearly, we need to use our voice to indicate others that there’s hope past the ache.”
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Counting the Price doesn’t but have a launch date.
