Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard were reunited with their parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, following their bitter estrangement, as they were seen attending the memorial service for the couple’s dead daughter.
Since Jill, 32, participated in the explosive documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets about her family and published a shocking tell-all memoir about growing up in her ‘cult’ religion, she has been open about how her relationship with her father has been extremely fractured.
In January, she and her husband, Derick, 35, even admitted that they couldn’t remember the “last time” they had seen him, and that it was at least a year earlier.
But now, Jill and Derick appeared to have put aside their differences with their father to reunite for their dead daughter’s funeral last week.
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard were reunited with their parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, as they were seen attending the memorial service for the couple’s dead daughter.
Since Jill, 32, took part in the explosive documentary, she has been open about how her relationship with her father has been extremely fractured.
But now, Jill and Derick seemed to have put aside their differences with their father to reunite for their dead daughter’s funeral last week (spotted)
Jill shared a series of photos of the heartbreaking memorial on her Instagram afterwards, 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 next to Jill and Derick in the audience of the service.
Jill shared a series of photos from the heartbreaking memorial on her Instagram afterwards, and many were quick to notice that Jim Bob, 58, and Michelle, 57, were in the background of some of them.
A snapshot 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 seen in the crowd.
In another image, they appear to be seen sitting next to Jill and Derick in the audience of the service.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Duggar family for comment.
In the four-part Amazon Prime docuseries, titled Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, Jill lashed out at her parents, accusing them of “taking advantage” of her and her siblings by tricking them into signing contracts and forcing them to participate in numerous reality shows. family shows against their will and without pay.
It has been reported that the Duggars received $18 million over the course of their 21 seasons on television, but according to Jill, it all went into her father’s pocket.
When asked if they ever received money for their time on the show, Jill said: “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. “They took advantage of us.”
In Amazon Prime’s four-part docuseries about the family, titled Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, Jill criticized her parents and accused them of “taking advantage” of her.
She said she and her siblings were tricked into signing contracts and forced to participate in the family’s numerous reality shows against their will and 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 abuse of his 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 the sexual abuse of her own sisters by her brother Josh, and recalled how she was forced to defend him on national television to prevent the family’s successful reality show from being 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 released her own tome, called Counting The Cost, in September, and in it she shared even more of her family’s secrets, claiming that her father “treated her worse” than he “treated her pedophile brother.”
She talked about her father’s reaction to the book. Today show days after its release.
“My dad texted the entire family group (since we’re still in the group thread) and he was just like, ‘This is so sad,'” she revealed.
“He basically threatens that if anyone speaks against him or my mother, they will be excluded from the inheritance.”
When asked about their relationship at the time, he described it as “complicated.”
“We had to set pretty strict boundaries and put things in a healthier place,” he explained.
“There just hasn’t been much change. And again, we don’t expect people to change.
“So while I love my parents and respect and honor them, I just have to prioritize our family unit and do what’s best and healthiest for Derek, me and our kids.”
She also recalled how she was forced to defend him on national television (seen) to prevent them from canceling the family’s successful reality show.
The former reality star released her own tome, called Counting The Cost, in September, and in it 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 had seen Jim Bob, and that it was at least a year earlier.
At the time, he said he would see his mother while “celebrating birthdays and some holidays,” but as for his father, he said he had no “individual contact with him.”
“My relationship with my father became quite toxic to the point that we had to cut off individual contact with him,” she shared.
“It got to the point where Derick was there to step in and say, ‘Hey, don’t contact my wife individually or I’ll have to file a protective order,’ just because it was too difficult for me to deal with.
At the time, he said he was “hoping for a reconciliation” but said there had to be a “change” first.
“Ultimately, we love our family and I would love for my kids to have their grandparents more involved in their lives, but we also want to make sure it’s a healthy relationship,” she said.
In January, during an appearance on The Unplanned Podcast, Jill confirmed that she had seen Michelle recently, but when asked about the last time she saw her father, she couldn’t even remember.
Derick said he thought it was when his 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 thing or a baby announcement. Some kind of family event,” she decided, to which Derick chimed in, “That was over a year ago.”
