Duggar family weighs in on Bombshell docuseries: Jill, Jinger and more

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Jill Duggar shared her story in the jam-packed docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets — and more of her relatives are starting to join in.

The 19 kids and counting alum sat down with her husband, Derick Dillardto shed light on her fundamentalist Christian upbringing in the four-episode special, which airs June 2 on Prime Video. Jill and her cousin Amy Duggar were among the many participants interviewed about their connection to the controversial organization the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP).

Shortly after the docuseries – with emotional revelations from Jill about her brother Josh Duggar‘s past scandals – was released, the Arkansas native shared a screenshot of a DM she received from a viewer.

“The hard part about your message is that you claim to have been ‘hurt’ by parents who were motivated to do good and give you a good life,” the user wrote, pointing to Jill’s parents – Jim Bob And Michelle Dugar – “thought they were doing the right thing” for their family.

The message continued: “If you [sic] are you going to tell the truth, what about the whole truth?

Jill posted her answer through her Instagram story. “Thank you. I don’t downplay or compare my trauma to other people’s trauma,” she wrote. “But neither should one person’s difficult experience be invalidated by another’s. Both are real. addressed.”

The Count on alum also acknowledged that there can be “beauty in the midst of the trials”, claiming that despite her highs and lows, she still has a love for her family.

Jill previously opened up about her strained relationship with her 18 siblings and their parents in 2020, three years after choosing to leave Count on. “We found out that we didn’t have as much control over our lives as we had over the show and stuff, as we needed to,” she explained in a YouTube Q&A at the time.

She and Derick dug deeper into their decision Shiny happy people, admit that money played a role in their departure. Jill claimed she was “never paid” for being on one of her family’s TLC shows — both of which were canceled due to controversy — but that Jim Bob allegedly tried to cut a deal to pay his older kids a lump sum .

“To get that, you had to sign another deal with my father [and] his production company, Mad Family Inc.,” she claimed. “It would be [for], like forever. We were automatically like, ‘We’re done.’”

Several of Jill’s siblings have kept quiet about her involvement in the docuseries — but others have shared their two cents. Scroll down to see which Duggar family members have responded to Shiny happy people: