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Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar don’t o.k. of the caller docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, which promises to exposure the secrets of their family. The couple, who introduced their big blimpish family to the satellite with their now-canceled TLC bid 19 Kids and Counting, released a statement connected their website connected June 1 and slammed the four-part docuseries, which debuted June 2 connected Prime Video. “The caller ‘documentary’ that talks astir our household is bittersweet due to the fact that successful it we spot the media and those with sick intentions hurting radical we love,” Jim Bob, 57, and Michelle, 56, said.
“Like different families, ours excessively has experienced the joys and heartbreaks of life, conscionable successful a precise nationalist format,” the connection continued. “This ‘documentary’ paints truthful overmuch and truthful galore successful a derogatory and sensationalized mode due to the fact that sadly that’s the absorption of amusement these days.”
Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar (Photo: Patsy Lynch/Shutterstock)
The Duggar documentary offers penetration into Bill Gothard‘s strict spiritual organization, The Institute of Basic Life Principles (BLP), that the household touted connected their erstwhile world show. Jim Bob and Michelle’s daughter, Jill Duggar, 32, speaks successful the doc astir her member Josh Duggar, 35, who was sentenced to 12 years successful situation successful March 2023 for child pornography charges.
In their statement, Jim Bob and Michelle mentioned however they’re estranged from respective of their children, including Jill, who person moved connected from immoderate of IBLP’s blimpish rules. “We person ever believed that the champion accidental to repair damaged relationships, oregon to reconcile differences, is done emotion successful a backstage setting,” the Duggar parents said.
“We emotion each subordinate of our household and volition proceed to bash each we tin to person a bully narration with each one,” they added. “Through some the triumphs and the trials we person clung to our religion each the much and discovered that done the emotion and grace of Jesus, we find strength, comfort, and purpose.”
Josh Duggar (Photo: Arkansas Jail/ MEGA)
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets uses the Duggar household arsenic a vas to stock the larger thought of IBLP and however its teachings person infiltrated society, from mundane families to America’s apical civilian institutions. The doc’s co-producer, Blye Faust, told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that Jill volition gain “respect” for discussing her controversial family successful the episodes. “We didn’t adjacent cognize what she would beryllium saying and however overmuch that she would beryllium divulging and she truly came done — honestly and raw,” Blye said.
In the doc, Jill shares however she was molested by her member Josh erstwhile she was younger but was guilted into defending him with her different sisters. She besides reveals she was “prepared to testify” against Josh during his 2021 kid pornography trial. Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is streaming present connected Prime Video.
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