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Amy Duggar didn’t at all times hate her extensively reviled cousin.
As we beforehand reported, Amy’s memoir will quickly be upon us.
She is one in every of disgraced cousin Josh Duggar’s most outspoken critics.
However, bizarrely, that was not at all times the case. They remained shut proper up till his arrest.
In 2017, Amy Duggar appeared on Marriage Boot Camp alongside her husband. (Picture Credit score: WEtv)
‘Growing up’ with Josh was ‘so much fun’ for Amy Duggar
On Wednesday, October 1, Amy Duggar King spoke to Us Weekly about how her childhood reminiscences of Josh are so completely different from the person that he selected to be as an grownup.
“Growing up … we had so much fun,” the 39-year-old recalled of her incarcerated cousin.
“He was such a fun kid,” Amy characterised.
“There [were] all kinds of pranks he pulled and jokes. We just had this connection.”
Elaborating, Amy shared that she and Josh “very much kept in touch” as adults.
“He texted me two weeks before he was arrested, sending me memes,” she revealed.
It’s unnerving to consider monsters who talk with family and friends the identical manner that the remainder of us do.
However that’s the truth.
For ‘Shiny Happy People’ Season 2, Amy Duggar King acknowledges that she obtained blowback for her participation within the first season. (Picture Credit score: Prime Video)
Does she ‘miss’ her evil cousin, in gentle of his crimes?
“I don’t know that person,” Amy Duggar mentioned of Josh and his crimes of receiving and possessing baby sex-abuse materials (CSAM).
“So I do not miss that person,” she reasoned.
“That is the scariest thing,” Amy noticed.
“To know that you’ve known someone your whole life, and yet, you don’t know them at all.”
Josh Duggar will likely be caught behind federal bars for a VERY very long time. Nobody feels sorry for him. (Picture Credit score: NBC)
In fact, many outdoors of the Duggar household didn’t really feel shocked at Josh’s CSAM arrest and conviction.
Why? As a result of he had molested 5 younger women as a teen.
That as a result of public data a number of years earlier than Homeland Safety raided his office.
How did Amy really feel about that horror?
‘Everything was so healthy and good’ after the 2015 revelations about Josh
Amy Duggar admitted that it felt “really hard” to maneuver ahead after she discovered what Josh had performed to 4 of his personal sisters.
“But then … it felt like everyone was [trying to] apologize. Everything was so healthy and good,” she shared.
(Keep in mind, Amy grew up in an excessive way of life and perception system, even when she was not a cultist like her cousins)
Amy Duggar appeared on Marriage Boot Camp along with her husband, Dillon King. (Picture Credit score: WEtv)
“And so I was like, ‘Why am I holding this against this person?’ You know, everyone’s human,” Amy confessed.
“And so I reconciled in my mind,” she defined. “Like, ‘OK, if everyone else can forgive, I can, too.’”
Amy concluded: “I still loved him, regardless of the crap he did.”
Fortunately, that now not appears to be the case. And she or he has no real interest in making good with Josh ever once more.