Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard reunited with their parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, after their bitter split, as they were spotted attending the memorial service for the couple’s stillborn daughter.
Ever since Jill, 32, took part in the explosive documentary, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, about her family and released a shocking tell-all memoir about growing up in their “cult” religion, she has been open about the way his relationship with his father was extremely fractured.
In January, she and her husband, Derick, 35, even admitted that they couldn’t remember the “last time” they saw him — and that it was at least a year ago.
But now Jill and Derick appeared to have put aside their differences with her father to reunite for their stillborn daughter’s funeral service last week.
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard reunited with their parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, as they were spotted attending the memorial service for the couple’s stillborn daughter.
Since Jill, 32, took part in the explosive documentary, she has spoken openly about how her relationship with her father was extremely fractured.
But now Jill and Derick appeared to have put aside their differences with her father to reunite for the funeral of their stillborn daughter last week (seen)
Jill later shared a series of photos of the heartbreaking memorial on her Instagram, and many were quick to notice that Jim Bob, 58, and Michelle, 57, were in the background.
In one image, they appear to be seen sitting alongside Jill and Derick in the audience at the service.
Jill later shared a series of photos from the heartbreaking memorial on her Instagram, and many were quick to notice that Jim Bob, 58, and Michelle, 57, were in the background of some of them.
A snap showed everyone in attendance releasing pink balloons into the air to commemorate the baby, who would be named Isla Marie, and Michelle and Jim Bob were spotted among the crowd.
In another image, they appear to be seen sitting alongside Jill and Derick in the audience at the service.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Duggar family for comment.
In Amazon Prime’s four-part documentary series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, Jill lashed out at her parents and accused them of “taking advantage” of her and her siblings by inciting them. signing contracts and forcing them to participate in the project. the family’s numerous reality TV shows against their will – without pay.
It was reported that the Duggars received $18 million during their 21 seasons on television, but according to Jill, it all went into her father’s pocket.
When asked if they ever received any money for their time on the show, Jill replied: “No. I never received any payment.
“No check, no cash, no nothing. For seven and a half years of my adult life, I was never paid. We were exploited.
In Amazon Prime’s four-part documentary series about the family, titled Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, Jill lashed out at her parents and accused them of “taking advantage” of her.
She said they tricked her and her siblings into signing contracts and forced them to participate in the family’s numerous reality TV shows against their will – without pay.
During the documentary, which premiered in June 2023, Jill also shared some of the extreme measures her father took to try to cover up her brother Josh’s sexual assault of her own sisters.
During the documentary, which premiered in June 2023, Jill also shared some of the extreme measures her father took to try to cover up her brother Josh’s sexual assault of his own sisters – and recalled how she forced to defend him on national television to prevent the murder. the family’s hit reality TV show is canceled.
She explained that when news of Josh’s alleged abuse became public in 2015, her father’s main goal was to protect the family’s impeccable reputation – rather than the victims.
The former reality star then released her own tome, titled Counting The Cost, in September, in which she shared even more of her family’s secrets, claiming her father “treated her worse” than he “treated his pedophile brother.
She spoke about her father’s reaction to the book on the Today show days after its release.
“My dad texted the whole family group (since we’re still in the group thread) and he was just like, ‘This is so sad,'” she revealed.
“He basically threatened that if anyone spoke out against him or my mother, they would be excluded from the inheritance.”
When asked about their relationship at the time, she described it as “complicated.”
“We just had to draw some pretty strict boundaries and just put things in a healthier place,” she explained.
“There just hasn’t been a lot of change. And again, we don’t expect people to change.
“So while I love and respect and honor my parents, I just have to put our family unit first and do what’s best and healthiest for Derek and me and our children.”
She also recalled how she was forced to defend him on national television (seen) to prevent the hit family reality show from being canceled.
The former reality TV star then released her own tome, titled Counting The Cost, in September, in which she shared even more of her family’s secrets.
In January, she and her husband, Derick, 35, admitted they couldn’t remember the “last time” they saw Jim Bob — and that it was at least a year ago.
At the time, she said she would see her mother to “celebrate birthdays and certain holidays,” but as for her father, she said she had no “one-on-one contact with him.”
“My relationship with my father became quite toxic to the point where we had to cut off all individual contact with him,” she explained.
“It got to the point where Derick was there to step in and kind of say, ‘Hey, don’t contact my wife individually or I’ll have to file an order of protection,’ just because it was so difficult for me. it’s up to me to take care of it.
At the time, she said she was “hoping for reconciliation” but first there needed to be “change.”
“At the end of the day, we love our family and I would like my children to have their grandparents more involved in their lives, but we also want to make sure it is a healthy relationship,” she said. -she declared.
In January, during an appearance on The Unplanned Podcast, Jill confirmed that she had seen Michelle recently, but when asked the last time she saw her father, she couldn’t even remember. .
Derick said he thought it was when their son, Freddy, was born in July 2022, to which Jill added: “Was that it?” Or was it a wedding? I do not remember.
“It was a birthday story or a baby announcement. Some sort of family function,” she decided, to which Derick chimed in. “It was over a year ago.”
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