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Amy Duggar has revealed how a lot cash she constructed from showing varied instances again within the day on 19 Youngsters and Counting.
And it received’t take anybody very lengthy do to the mathematics.
On the most recent 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 guilty for that zero in her checking account column, too.
“My uncle, he instructed all of us that 19 Youngsters and Counting was a ministry — and that we had been on the present to shine a light-weight within the darkness, to be part of this ministry and that God has known as us to this,” Amy instructed 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 Reality, 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 good, he actually is. He’s a businessman and he is aware of easy methods to do it.”
That’s one method to put it. One other method to put it might be that Jim Bob is egocentric and dishonest and continues to spend cash his kids earned.
Usually, Amy is just not the primary Duggar to accuse Jim Bob of withholding pay.
The patriarch’s daughter Jill Duggar Dillard — who starred in 19 Youngsters and Counting, in addition to its spinoff Counting On — has made the identical allegations.
“I by no means obtained any payout — no verify, no money, no nothing,” Jill stated within the 2023 docuseries Shiny, Blissful Folks: 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 after we bought an lawyer concerned and eventually recovered a few of the cash,” Jill stated in a 2020 YouTube vlog. “It was a course of.”
In her aforementioned e-book, Amy admits that she was as soon as near cousin Josh Duggar… who’s at present serving time in federal jail after having been convicted on youngster pornography prices.
The e-book doesn’t come out till October 14, however Amy has been making the media rounds of late in promotion for it.
“I feel the whole e-book will drop jaws. Nobody is aware of the issues that I used to be scuffling with,” she just lately instructed Folks Journal, for instance.
She added on this similar interview:
“I hope this e-book 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 appears like a hug for people who have skilled abuse of their lives.”
