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Jill Duggar Dillard to Release Memoir Detailing "Painful" Reality TV Journey
Jill Duggar is not holding backmost erstwhile it comes to her broadside of the story.
The girl of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar announced that she and her hubby Derick Dillard are releasing an upcoming memoir, Counting The Cost, to springiness a look into filming the TLC bid 19 Kids and Counting and the spinoff Counting On, which chronicled the lives of the controversial Duggar family until 2021. The memoir volition beryllium released January 2024.
"Thanks to time, tears, truth, and therapy, God has begun to heal our wounds into scars," Jill wrote connected Instagram May 31. "Though we would person ne'er chosen this path, and it has outgo america dearly, we privation to usage our dependable to amusement others that determination is anticipation beyond the pain."
Jill said the memoir volition item the "painful journey" of being a portion of the family, which has been antecedently sparked controversy for its strict pursuing of the Institute successful Basic Life Principles (IBLP). IBLP is a non-denominational Christian enactment founded by pastor Bill Gothard that teaches blimpish spiritual beliefs, ones that person been criticized successful the past arsenic "cult-like" by Jill's sister Jinger.
The memoir volition besides tackle the TLC series' interaction connected Jill and Derick's lives earlier they quit reality tv successful 2017.
"The challenges we person faced, including deficiency of respect for boundaries, greed, manipulation, and betrayal, are not that overmuch antithetic than what galore radical successful our assemblage person faced," she continued connected Instagram. "However, 15+ years of world television, undergirded by secrecy and lies, is tantamount to pouring gasoline connected the occurrence of our struggle."
Her memoir announcement came 2 days earlier the bombshell docs-series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is scheduled for merchandise June 2 connected Prime Video. And viewers person already gotten a sensation of the bid with its jaw-dropping May 18 trailer.
"There's a communicative that's going to beryllium told," Jill said successful the clip. "And I would alternatively beryllium the 1 telling it."
E! News reached retired to the Duggar family, TLC and IBLP for remark connected Jill's upcoming memoir but hasn't heard back.
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