The controversies surrounding former 19 Kids and Counting cast member Josh Duggar remain some of the most disturbing in all of reality TV. Years before he was arrested on child pornography charges (that he was later convicted of), he was accused of molesting several of his younger sisters as a teenager, which sparked TLC to cancel the Duggar family’s initial series. Amazon Studios’ new docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets dives back into that scandalous time while also highlighting the abusive practices of the Institute in Basic Life Principles. At the time, the family went into face-saving mode, and daughter Jill Duggar Dillard talked out her regrets about being interviewed by Megyn Kelly at the time in defense of her brother.
Back in 2015, Megyn Kelly was two years away from leaving Fox News for NBC, and she welcomed Jill and Jessa Duggar onto The Kelly File to talk about and defend their brother. Looking back, it’s likely not a decision that Jill would make the same way if she had it to do over again, and her husband Derick Dillard bluntly called it a no-win situation in the docuseries, saying (via L.A. Times):
