Peeling again the curtain. Jill Duggar is utilizing her voice within the new docuseries Shiny Completely happy Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques.
The 32-year-old is one in every of many former followers of the Institute in Primary Life Ideas (IBLP) featured in Prime Video’s four-part sequence, which debuted on Friday, June 2. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar‘s daughter appeared alongside her husband, Derick Dillard, and cousin Amy Duggar within the deep dive into the Duggar household’s rise to stardom — and fall into scandal.
“There’s a narrative that’s going to be advised,” Jill mentioned within the first have a look at the sequence final month. “And I’d quite be the one telling it.”
Jill and her siblings bought their begin on TLC in 2008 with the premiere of 19 Youngsters and Counting. The truth sequence gave followers a glimpse contained in the lives of the Duggar household, who raised their youngsters to comply with strict fundamentalist beliefs and conservative life.
After 10 seasons, TLC canceled the present in 2015 after Jill’s brother Josh Duggar was accused of molesting a number of ladies when he was a teen — a few of whom had been his sisters. Jill and her sister Jessa Duggar had been later recognized as a few of the victims, they usually appeared on Megyn Kelly‘s present on the time to defend their household’s title.
“This was one thing that’s already been handled,” Jill mentioned via tears through the 2015 broadcast, claiming that she felt “revictimization” via the media frenzy surrounding the scandal. “We’ve already forgiven Josh. We’ve moved on.”
Trying again on the scenario almost 10 years later, Jill confessed in Shiny Completely happy Folks that she would’ve dealt with it otherwise. “I imagine strongly that victims ought to all the time be protected. Victims ought to all the time be cared for,” she mentioned.
Jill claimed she felt “obligated” to downplay her brother’s actions for the sake of her household. “It’s not one thing I’m pleased with,” she added.
The Arkansas native — who shares three sons with Dillard — wasn’t keen to discuss the 2015 controversy on digital camera. Elsewhere within the docuseries, she hesitated to handle Josh’s 2021 arrest and subsequent sentencing for receiving and possessing baby pornography. The scandal prompted TLC to formally minimize ties with the Duggars, axing the spinoff sequence Counting On. (Josh is at the moment serving time in a Texas jail and is anticipated to be launched in October 2023.)
Earlier than Shiny Completely happy Folks premiered, producers Olivia Crist and Julia Willoughby Nason opened up about how they approached the delicate subject of the Duggar household’s repute and their ties to the controversial IBLP world.
“What we finally discover within the present is — there’s the shiny, comfortable facade, after which beneath the floor is that this insidious cult behind the household, known as the IBLP,” Willoughby Nason defined on the “Actuality Life With Kate Casey” in Could. “The Duggars are a leaping off level for us for a a lot, a lot bigger story. … This form of construction is simply ripe with abuse.”
The staff hopes viewers come away with a deeper understanding of the inside workings of the Duggar brood and the approach to life they comply with. “A whole lot of issues have been swept underneath the rug that ought to have been regarded into,” Willoughby Nason added. “I believe when you watch the present, … there’s rather a lot that ought to have been regarded into that wasn’t.”
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