Jill Duggar is opening up in her new book,“Counting the Cost.
The List obtained a copy of the book, which was released on September 12, 2023.
Jill recalled getting a call from her father while she was headed to a doctor’s appointment.
She was with her sister, Jessa Duggar, at the time.
“They said it was private.
That it was a safe place.
How could this happen?”
It was written with one aim and one aim only: entertainment,” she wrote.
What she said next, however, is truly heartbreaking.
“I ran to him.
He held me tight and cried along with me,” she wrote in “Counting the Cost.”
Jill revealed that she had opened up to Derick about the abuse just before the two got engaged.
“I’m an avoider by nature, but there was no hiding from this,” she admitted.
“‘I wish I were dead,'” she told her husband.
“That was all there was to say.
I couldn’t speak much more.
I just cried,” she wrote.
Josh Duggar was arrested in April 2021 and charged with possession of child pornography.
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