A Christmas reunion doesn’t imply that Jill Dillard (née Duggar) and Derick Dillard have patched issues up of their relationship along with her father, Jim Bob Duggar.
After the trio was seen conversing within the background of one in every of James Duggar’s 2024 Christmas Day images, Derick set the report straight on whether or not he and Jill had been again on good phrases with Jim Bob.
“Simply so individuals know, Jim Bob approached me whereas we had been there on Christmas Day for about 5 minutes, and I don’t respect him,” he wrote within the feedback part of an Instagram put up that referenced the reunion. “I don’t assume that’s thought-about ‘mingling.’ There have been over 100 individuals, the home is 8000 sq. toes, and Santa Claus was there, so this isn’t your typical intimate household gathering.”
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He continued, “I’ve spoken with him lower than 10 minutes because the final time we had been at that home, which was over a 12 months in the past. We’re making an attempt to be civil for the sake of our household, however that doesn’t imply all the things is all hunky dorey [sic], and it certain doesn’t imply that I’m not going to remark when individuals attempt to heat actuality for their very own functions.”
The Dillards have been estranged from Jim Bob since they took half within the Prime Video docuseries Shiny Completely satisfied Individuals: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques in June 2023. “My dad does management a whole lot of issues within the household,” Jill mentioned in a single scene. “Household relationships had been already kinda rocky. Every thing throughout the household dynamic has shifted, and never for the higher.”
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A number of months later, the couple continued to show secrets and techniques about Jill’s upbringing of their memoir, Counting the Value. Amongst different bombshells, they claimed that Jim Bob didn’t pay them to seem on the household’s actuality exhibits, 19 Youngsters & Counting and Counting On.
In November 2024, Jill admitted that her relationship along with her dad and mom remains to be “sophisticated.” Nevertheless, she added, “I really feel like we’re in a rebuilding part now with wholesome boundaries nonetheless in place. We attempt to hang around at any time when it really works nicely and we’ve got the bandwidth to navigate issues.”