Prime Video says its new four-part documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets delves into the reality of the Duggars, certainly one of actuality TV’s most well-known households. However Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, who starred with their many youngsters on 19 Kids and Counting earlier than scandal led to the TLC present’s cancellation, apparently beg to vary.
“The current ‘documentary’ that talks about our household is unhappy as a result of in it we see the media and people with sick intentions hurting folks we love,” the couple wrote in a post on their website on Thursday, June 1. “Like different households, ours too has skilled the thrill and heartbreaks of life, simply in a really public format. This ‘documentary’ paints a lot and so many in a derogatory and sensationalized approach as a result of sadly that’s the course of leisure as of late.”
The restricted docuseries, which began streaming on Friday, June 2, “expos[es] the reality beneath the healthful Americana floor of actuality television’s favourite mega-family, The Duggars, and the novel group behind them: The Institute in Primary Life Rules,” Amazon says in a synopsis. “As particulars of the household and their scandals unfold, we notice they’re a part of an insidious, a lot bigger menace already in movement, with democracy itself in peril.”
Of their publish, Jim Bob and Michelle added: “Now we have at all times believed that the perfect probability to restore broken relationships, or to reconcile variations, is thru love in a personal setting. We love each member of our household and can proceed to do all we are able to to have a very good relationship with every one. By way of each the triumphs and the trials, we’ve got clung to our religion all of the extra and found that by way of the love and style of Jesus, we discover energy, consolation, and goal.”
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The couple’s daughter Jill Duggar and her husband, Derick Dillard, participated within the documentary, as did Deanna Jordan, Jim Bob’s sister, and Amy Duggar King, a niece of Jim Bob and Michelle.
And King responded to her aunt and uncle’s assertion concerning the docuseries in a TikTok video on Friday, referencing their son Josh Duggar’s 2021 conviction for downloading and possession of kid intercourse abuse photographs, in addition to the couple’s 2015 reveal that Josh had molested 4 of his sisters.
“Information flash: Should you would have gotten Josh the true, true assist that he wanted a very long time in the past — precise remedy — you wouldn’t be on this mess. These lovely women wouldn’t have a lot to heal from,” King mentioned in the video, displaying a screenshot of Jim Bob and Michelle’s assertion. “You aren’t a sufferer right here. Cease taking part in the sufferer.”
King additionally advised Entertainment Tonight that the Duggars’ assertion is “gaslighting.”
“I felt like, in that second, they might have been humble, they usually may have mentioned, ‘We’re sorry for the victims,’” she mentioned. “They may have finished that, however as an alternative, they didn’t. They didn’t.”
She added: “That’s actually, actually unhappy that they’re nonetheless defending a pedophile. It’s very unhappy. It doesn’t present any help for the precise victims, and that’s what the documentary is all about.”
Shiny Completely satisfied Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques, Now Streaming, Prime Video
