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Amy Duggar has revealed how a lot cash she constituted of showing varied instances again within the day on 19 Children and Counting.
And it gained’t take anybody very lengthy do to the maths.
On the newest episode of The Viall Information, the niece of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar stated plainly that she made “nada” from her time on tv.
She is aware of who responsible for that zero in her checking account column, too.
“My uncle, he informed all of us that 19 Children and Counting was a ministry — and that we have been on the present to shine a light-weight within the darkness, to be part of this ministry and that God has referred to as us to this,” Amy informed listeners of Jim Bob, emphasizing there was no compensation for the youngsters concerned.
The writer of a brand new memoir titled Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Fact, Amy stated she “signed a contract blindly,” estimating that the collection made her household over $6 million throughout its run.
Giving reluctant credit score to Jim Bob, Amy added:
“He’s very sensible, he actually is. He’s a businessman and he is aware of find out how to do it.”
That’s one approach to put it. One other approach to put it could be that Jim Bob is egocentric and dishonest and continues to spend cash his kids earned.
Normally, Amy isn’t the primary Duggar to accuse Jim Bob of withholding pay.
The patriarch’s daughter Jill Duggar Dillard — who starred in 19 Children and Counting, in addition to its spinoff Counting On — has made the identical allegations.
“I by no means acquired any payout — no examine, no money, no nothing,” Jill stated within the 2023 docuseries Shiny, Glad Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques. “For seven and a half years of my grownup life, I used to be by no means paid.”
She and husband Derick walked away from Counting On in 2017, 4 years earlier than the present was canceled.
“That’s once we received an lawyer concerned and at last recovered among the cash,” Jill stated in a 2020 YouTube vlog. “It was a course of.”
In her aforementioned ebook, Amy admits that she was as soon as near cousin Josh Duggar... who’s presently serving time in federal jail after having been convicted on youngster pornography prices.
The ebook doesn’t come out till October 14, however Amy has been making the media rounds of late in promotion for it.
“I feel the complete ebook will drop jaws. Nobody is aware of the issues that I used to be battling,” she not too long ago informed Individuals Journal, for instance.
She added on this similar interview:
“I hope this ebook brings closure as to why issues form of went the way in which they went for me. I hope it does join the dots for people who did watch the present. And, I hope additionally that it seems like a hug for people who have skilled abuse of their lives.”