đł Amy Duggar Breaks Her Silence: The Shocking Words That Were Forbidden Inside the Duggar Home â âWe Were Never Allowed to Say ThisâŠâ đ„

Amy Duggar has been making the media rounds since the release of her book, Holy Disrupter, last month. During a recent interview for Melissa Riversâ Group Text YouTube show, Amy spoke about all of the rules she would encounter growing up when she went to the Duggar home, where her Uncle Jim Bob and Aunt Michelle kept their 19 kids on a very tight leash.
Amy revealed that the 19 Kids & Counting stars even had rules restricting what words were not to be said in the familyâs home. While fans will remember that the pious Duggars never swore or spoke about anything even remotely inappropriate, Amy revealed that negatively was also a no-no in Duggarville.
âYou canât even say, like, âI hate tomatoesâ when you were over there. The word âhateâ wasnât allowed!â Amy revealed. âThe word âdislikeâ wasnât allowed. Nothing was negative there in that home. So [when I was there] I just had to put on a mask that I was happy and shiny and everything is good and happy and lovely.
ââŠthere was just a lot of rules over there,â Amy added.

Later, Amy stated that despite all of the rules, the Duggar kids were âthe most happiest children,â probably because they were not aware of what life outside their rule-filled religious bubble could be like.
âThey were making bread, and they were playing chess and there was classical music playing every single day in that home,â she said.
Amyâs statements about the Duggar kids not being allowed to be negative are seemingly backed up by a set of rules that was posted to the official Duggar Family website around 2010. Under âDuggar House Guidelines,â the first rule is that the Duggars were to âalways use soft words, even when you donât feel well.â The rules also stipulated that the Duggars were to always display âjoyful attitudes, even if you have been mistreated.â The family was also instructed to ânever argue, complain, or blame.â

Amy also talked about her cousin Joshâs multiple scandals that came out in 2015, including when it was made public that he had molested four of his younger sisters and another young girl when he was a teenager. According to Amy, the Duggars were rocked by the scandal but the familyâ even Joshâs victimsâ were expected to âforgive quickly.â
âIf something happens in one of these IBLP families, you have to forgive quickly and move on and, honestly, not deal with your hurt because youâre not allowed to go to counseling,â Amy said. âYou have to literally talk to someone within the IBLP in order to have any kind of mentor or therapyâŠbut thereâs no meat to that conversation. Youâre not actually receiving healing. I think they put on a happy, shiny mask. I think they did what they had to do. They had a part to play. They had a character to play. And they did it very well.â
In another recent interview to promote her book, Amy revealed that she once found thousands of X-rated images on a computer that had previously belonged to a then-teenage Josh. She stated that she had told Jim Bob about her findings, but he quickly dismissed it, suggesting that the adult imagery was already on the computer (in a folder named âJoshâs Filesâ somehow) by the time Josh purchased the computer at a pawn shop.

Years later, it was discovered that Josh had been sending and receiving child sex abuse materials (CSAM) on his work computer. (He is currently in prison for those crimes.)
Amy told Melissa that she wishes she had spoken up more when she found the p0rn all those years ago. (She did clarify, however, that the p0rn on that computer was legal and featured only adults.)
âI absolutely feel terrible that I didnât press it hard enough to find answers,â she said. âAgain, I believed what I was told. There wasnât anything I could do.â
Despite not having spoken to her Uncle Jim Bob, Aunt Michelle and the bulk majority of her Duggar cousins in years, Amy says she still hopes to mend fences eventually.








