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Amy Duggar has revealed how a lot cash she constructed from showing numerous occasions again within the day on 19 Youngsters and Counting.
And it received’t take anybody very lengthy do to the mathematics.
On the newest episode of The Viall Recordsdata, the niece of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar stated plainly that she made “nada” from her time on tv.
She is aware of who accountable for that zero in her checking account column, too.
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“My uncle, he told all of us that 19 Kids and Counting was a ministry — and that we were on the show to shine a light in the darkness, to be a part of this ministry and that God has called us to this,” Amy advised listeners of Jim Bob, emphasizing there was no compensation for the youngsters concerned.
The creator 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 smart, he really is. He’s a businessman and he knows how to do it.”
That’s one solution to put it. One other solution to put it could be that Jim Bob is egocentric and dishonest and continues to spend cash his kids earned.
Amy Duggar and Dillon King arrive at WE television’s Actual Love: Relationship Actuality TV’s Previous, Current & Future occasion at The Paley Heart for Media on December 11, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Picture by Amanda Edwards/Getty Photographs)
On the whole, Amy shouldn’t be 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 never received any payout — no check, no cash, no nothing,” Jill stated within the 2023 docuseries Shiny, Glad Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques. “For seven and a half years of my adult life, I was never paid.”
She and husband Derick walked away from Counting On in 2017, 4 years earlier than the present was canceled.
“That’s when we got an attorney involved and finally recovered some of the money,” Jill stated in a 2020 YouTube vlog. “It was a process.”
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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 expenses.
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 think the entire book will drop jaws. No one knows the things that I was struggling with,” she lately advised Folks Journal, for instance.
She added on this identical interview:
“I hope this book brings closure as to why things kind of went the way they went for me. I hope it does connect the dots for those that did watch the show. And, I hope also that it feels like a hug for those that have experienced abuse in their lives.”
