‘I Cry a Lot of Tears,’ Jill Duggar Says of Brother’s Scandal
Jill and Jessa Duggar speak about their brother Josh’s scandals.
— -- Jessa Duggar Seewald and Jill Duggar Dillard, who starred on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” are opening up about how scandals involving their brotherJosh hit their devoutly Christian family, causing public outcry and the cancellation of their hit show.
In a clip of TLC’s upcoming three-part special, “Jill and Jessa: Counting On,” the sisters reveal how the fallout affected their lives.
“I cry a lot of tears,” Dillard said.
“Life over the past four months has been pretty crazy for my family," Seewald added.
Josh Duggar made headlines this summer after a years-old police report surfaced that revealed he had been investigated for inappropriately touched minor girls, including four of his sisters, more than 12 years ago.
Duggar -- who was 14 at the time of the first alleged misconduct – has said he "would do anything to go back to those teen years and take different actions."
Duggar was never charged with a crime.
In August, the 27-year-old married father of four was unmasked as a client of Ashley Madison, a service that helps people cheat on their spouses. In the wake of that disclosure, Duggar admitted to being unfaithful and having a porn addiction.
Duggar, the eldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, has since resigned his position with the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group.
Seewald and Dillard were among the sisters who were inappropriately touched by Josh Duggar. For months after the initial scandal broke, they defended their brother.
The sisters now say they wish they had known the whole story before defending Josh publicly.
“It wasn’t right for him to let us speak our words without having the full knowledge of what he was hiding,” Dillard says in the clip of the new special.
She described feeling “angry and hurt and all of those emotions mixed together.”
The special also includes candid interviews with Duggar’s wife, Anna.
“I'm just like, I'm going to wake up and everything's going to be OK, and this can't be true,” she said.
The special follows Dillard and Seewald on the next chapter of their lives, as Dillard moves to Central American and Seewald starts a family of her own.
Despite the family’s recent troubles, the sisters appear optimistic.
“There are still a lot of exciting milestones ahead,” Seewald said.
Added Dillard: “We will come out of this fire, so to speak, stronger as a family unit.”
Josh Duggar is reportedly in treatment for sex addiction. He declined to comment to ABC News.
The first episode of the three-part special, “Jill and Jessa: Counting On,” premieres Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. on TLC.
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