Amy Duggar Calls Josh Duggar A ‘Fraud,’ Reveals ‘Rage’ She Felt While Preparing For Her Wedding
Amy Duggar King is kicking off 2016 by airing her grievances with her scandal-plagued cousin, Josh Duggar. Amy doesn’t mince words while sharing her feelings about Josh’s cheating scandal, and she reveals that the Duggars kept her in the dark about the sexual molestation scandal that put an end to her reality show career.
According to Us Weekly, Amy Duggar recapped the roller coaster ride of a year that was 2015 in a recent blog post. Its high points included her engagement and wedding, and its lows included husband Dillon King’s car crash and her parents’ divorce. Josh Duggar’s behavior also had a huge impact on Amy’s life. In May of last year, In Touch Weekly released police reports that contained graphic details about how Josh sexually molested his younger sisters as a teenager. Josh was never charged with a crime because his parents didn’t report him to the proper authorities. They allegedly did such a good job of hiding Josh’s past that Amy Duggar didn’t even know about it.
“Life was just wonderful … drum roll please…. until one of my family members made some terrible confessions. I knew nothing of the molestation charges,” Amy Duggar wrote in her blog post.
Here’s how the Duggar empire came crashing down in 2015, one month at a time: https://t.co/kCPlh84Z0X
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Amy previously addressed the molestation scandal in August 2015. The police reports revealed that Josh Duggar had molested four of his younger sisters and a babysitter, and there was some speculation that Amy was his fifth victim. However, she denied these rumors.
“I was not part of it at all,” Amy told People. “I wasn’t anywhere near any of that.”
TLC decided to cancel 19 Kids and Counting a few weeks after Josh’s dark past was uncovered, and Amy Duggar lost the opportunity to have her wedding televised. TLC would ultimately decide to bring the Duggars back for a three-part special titled Jill & Jessa: Counting On, but the network wasn’t ready to begin rebuilding its relationship with the Duggar family at the time of Amy’s Labor Day wedding. According to Radar Online, Amy’s husband, Dillon King, informed his Instagram followers that TLC had planned on filming their nuptials before news of Josh’s sexual molestation scandal broke. However, the network contacted Amy and Dillon late in July to let them know that their wedding special had been cancelled.
In her blog post, Amy Duggar went on to write about how Josh Duggar’s second scandal ruined her wedding dress fitting. In August 2015, Josh confessed to cheating on his wife, Anna Duggar, after Gawker discovered that he had a paid Ashley Madison account.
“I had no idea what the Ashley Madison site even was?” Amy Duggar wrote. “I was completely shocked just like the rest of the world; the only difference was I was being fitted for my wedding dress with tears running down my face and a glass of wine in my hand as the news broke. I wondered what the heck was going on?”
According to Amy Duggar, her confusion quickly morphed into anger once she realized that her cousin had been hiding a double life from his family.
“A million questions flooded my mind. Rage came over me, sadness crept in, and reality sat in that the person I had known my entire life turned out to be a fraud, and a complete stranger. I’ve always heard that there were people in this world that lived a double life, but I never thought that someone so close to home would be living a lie.”
As the Inquisitr previously reported, Josh Duggar responded to the Ashley Madison account revelation by confessing that he had been “the biggest hypocrite ever” and checking himself into a faith-based treatment center. He did not attend Amy Duggar’s wedding, but Anna and their four children were there. According to Amy, she was thrilled that Anna Duggar decided to help her celebrate her marriage even though the event’s timing was extremely awkward; it was likely tough for Anna to attend a wedding while her husband’s broken marriage vows were weighing on her mind.
“Everyone we knew and loved attended including Anna Duggar,” Amy continued. “Her attendance really touched me, after all she has and still is going through she wanted to be there for our special day. I gave her a huge hug right before I walked down the aisle, prayed with her and left her and my Aunt Michelle a letter on their chairs. It was so special that they came to support our marriage.”
Amy Duggar doesn’t mention Jill & Jessa: Counting On in her blog post, and this may be because she may have been against the decision to film the special. In December, a source told ET Online that some members of the Duggar family declined to take part in the special because they disagreed with the decision to ask Anna Duggar to appear on TV during such a difficult time in her life. These holdouts reportedly thought that “certain members of the family are more focused on ratings and a paycheck than actually focusing on the issues at hand.”
Amy Duggar was the only star of 19 Kids and Counting who didn’t appear on Jill & Jessa: Counting On at all. It’s possible that she and Dillon were the family members who were against the special. What do you think?
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