Jill Duggar Speaks Out After ‘Shiny Happy People’ Docuseries

Telling her fact. Whereas Jill Duggar has been outspoken about her troublesome relationship together with her household over time, she nonetheless has love for the individuals who raised her.

The previous TLC character, 32, shared an inspiring message by way of Instagram following the discharge of Prime Video’s bombshell docuseries Shiny Comfortable Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques. “Life [is] a journey. Typically braveness is constructed within the hardest storms,” she captioned a pic of herself posing by water on Sunday, June 4.

One fan took to the feedback part to reward the Arkansas native’s involvement within the four-part collection, which explored the controversial non secular group the Institute in Fundamental Life Rules (IBLP), which the Duggars have adopted for years. “You probably did a fantastic job on the documentary! I don’t even see any ‘dishonoring’ of your mother and father; simply information about what occurred and fascinating on all the gorgeous childhood recollections,” the person wrote.

The fan continued: “Carry on doing what you’re doing. Oh, and singing Hey Woman by Anne Wilson. I name that one in all my ‘freedom songs.’ Always remember who you’re, and who made you the best way you’re.”

The Counting the Price writer — who shares sons Israel, 8, Samuel, 5, and Frederick, 11 months, with husband Derick Dillard — replied to the remark, writing, “Thanks. ❤️ I like my mother and father.”

Within the doc, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s daughter opened up about her expertise rising up on TV, revealing that she was by no means paid for her time on 19 Youngsters and Counting and its spinoff Counting On. As an alternative, she claimed that every one their earnings went to her father.

Elsewhere within the collection, Jill claimed she felt “obligated” to assist her household following the aftermath of Josh Duggar’s molestation scandal. Information broke in Might 2015 that the now-35-year-old had molested 5 women between 2002 and 2003. One month later, Jill and her sister Jessa Duggar revealed throughout an interview with Megyn Kelly that they have been amongst their brother’s victims.

Jill Duggar Denies Dishonoring Family in Bombshell Docuseries

Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard.
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“It’s not one thing that I’m happy with,” Jill mentioned of the interview within the docuseries. “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 mother and father, I wouldn’t have finished it.”

A number of years after the preliminary scandal, Josh — who shares seven children together with his spouse, Anna Duggar — was arrested for possession of kid pornography in April 2021. He was formally sentenced to 12.5 years in jail in Might 2022.

TLC reduce ties with the Duggars amid the controversy, canceling Counting On in 2021. Jill revealed within the Prime Video collection that she and Derick, 34, have been provided cash by her father to proceed filming the spinoff earlier than they left in 2017. “So as 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, endlessly. We have been mechanically like, ‘We’re finished.’”

The couple spoke out about their choice to give up the present in an October 2020 YouTube video. “We discovered we didn’t have as a lot management over our lives because it associated to the present and stuff, as we wanted,” Jill mentioned on the time. “We needed to decide at the moment to type of put the present apart … to pursue our personal targets and every part. That’s after we made that call.”

Although she known as the selection a “troublesome one,” Jill famous that she and Derick didn’t “remorse leaving the present.”

Whereas her relationships together with her mother and father and siblings have turn into rocky since distancing herself from the household, Jill is comfortable to have extra management over her personal life.

“Ultimately you begin making your individual choices, just like the nostril ring that I received, and it’s piece by piece,” she mentioned through the docuseries. “Little by little … [you] do what you might want to survive.”