Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard have reunited with her parents, Jim Boband Michelle,following their bitter estrangement, as they were spotted attending the memorial service for the couple's stillborn daughter.
Ever since Jill, 32, participated in explosive documentary, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, about her family and released a shocking tell-all memoir about growing up intheir 'cult-like' religion, she has been open about how her relationship with her father has been extremely fractured.
Back in January, she and her husband, Derick, 35, even admitted that they couldn't remember the 'last time' they had seen him - and that it was at least a year prior.
But now, Jill and Derick seemed to have put their differences with her dad aside to come together for the burial service of their stillborn daughter last week.
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard have reunited with her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, as they were spotted attending the memorial service for the couple's stillborn daughter
Ever since Jill, 32, participated in the explosive documentary, she has been open about how her relationship with her father has been extremely fractured
But now, Jill and Derick seemed to have put their differences with her dad aside to come together for the burial service of their stillborn daughter last week (seen)
Jill shared a series of photos from the heartbreaking memorial to her Instagram afterwards, and many were quick to notice that Jim Bob, 58, and Michelle, 57, were in the background
In one image,they appear to be seen sitting alongside Jill and Derick in the audience of the service
Jill shared a series of photos from the heartbreaking memorial to her Instagram afterwards, and many were quick to notice that Jim Bob, 58, and Michelle, 57, were in the background of some of them.
One snap showed all the attendees releasing pink balloons in their air to commemorate the baby, who was going to be named Isla Marie, and Michelle and Jim Bob were spotted amongst the crowd.
In another image, they appear to be seen sitting alongside Jill and Derick in the audience of the service.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Duggar family for comment.
In Amazon Prime's four-part docuseries, entitled Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, Jill railed against her parents and accused them of 'taking advantage' of her and her siblingsby tricking them into signing contracts and forcing them to be take part in the family's numerous reality shows against their will - without pay.
It's been reported that the Duggars received $18 million over the course of their 21 seasons on TV, but according to Jill, it all went into her father's pocket.
When asked if they ever received money for their time in the show, Jill stated: 'No. I never received any payout.
'No check, no cash, no nothing. For seven-and-a-half years of my adult life, I was never paid. We were taken advantage of.'
In Amazon Prime's four-part docuseries about the family, entitled Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, Jill railed against her parents and accused them of 'taking advantage' of her
She said they tricked her and her siblingsinto signing contracts and forced them to be take part in the family's numerous reality shows against their will - without pay
During the doc, which premiered in June 2023, Jill also shared some of the extreme measures that her dad took to try to cover up brother Josh's molestation of his own sisters
During the doc, which premiered in June 2023, Jill also shared some of the extreme measures that her dad took to try to cover up brother Josh's molestation of his own sisters - and recalled how she was forced to defend him on national television to prevent the family's hit reality show from being canceled.
She explained that when news of Josh's alleged abuse was made public in 2015, her dad's main focus was protecting the family's squeaky-clean reputation - rather than the victims.
The former reality star went on to release her own tome, calledCounting The Cost, in September, and in it, she shared even more of her family's secrets, claiming her dad 'treated her worse' than he 'treated her pedophile brother.'
She spoke about her dad's reaction to the book to theToday show days after it came out.
'My dad texted the entire family group text [since we’re still in the group thread] and he was just saying, "This is so sad,"' she revealed.
'He basically threatening that if anybody speaks out against him or my mom that they would be cut out of the inheritance.'
When asked about their relationship at the time, she described it as 'complicated.'
'We just had to draw some pretty strict boundaries and just put things in a healthier place,' she explained.
'There just hasn’t been a whole lot of change. And again, we don't expect people to change.
'So while I love my parents and I respect them and honor them, I just have to prioritize our family unit and do what's best and healthy for Derek and I and our kids.'
She also recalled how she was forced to defend him on national television (seen) to prevent the family's hit reality show from being canceled
The former reality star went on to release her own tome, called Counting The Cost, in September, and in it, she shared even more of her family's secrets
Back in January, she and her husband, Derick, 35, admitted that they couldn't remember the 'last time' they had seen Jim Bob - and that it was at least a year prior
At the time, she said she would see her mother while 'celebrating birthdays and some holidays,' but as for her father, she said she did not have any 'individual contact with him.'
'My relationship with my dad got pretty toxic to the point where we had to cut off individual contact with him,' she shared.
'It got to the point where Derick was there to step in and kind of say, "Hey, don't reach out to my wife individually or else I'll have to file a protective order," just because it was so hard for me to handle.'
At the time, she said she 'hoped for a reconciliation' but said there needed to be 'change' first.
'We do love our family ultimately, and I would love for my kids to have their grandparents involved more in their lives, but we also want to make sure that it’s a healthy relationship,' she stated.
In January during an appearance on The Unplanned Podcast, Jill confirmed that she had seen Michelle recently, but when she was asked about the last time she saw her dad, she couldn't even remember.
Derick said he thought it was when their son, Freddy, was born in July 2022, to which Jill added, 'Was it that? Or was it a wedding? I can't remember.'
'It was abirthday thing or baby announcement.Some kind of family function,' she decided, to which Derick interjected, 'That was over a year ago.'
