Where Jill Duggar stands with parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar

Jim Bob sent siblings when Jill and Derick distanced themselves

Jill recalls her father’s reaction when she and Derick asked him to speak with their lawyer after, she writes, Jim Bob refused Jill’s request to see the contract she signed on her wedding day regarding her compensation (or lack thereof) for participation in 19 kids and counting.

Without naming names, Jill describes a “combined effort by several of my siblings” to reason with her. “They were calling phones, sending voicemails and text messages all day long, everyone begging us to solve this problem. When that didn’t work, some of my brothers and sisters started visiting them. They wanted to talk about it for hours, trying to figure out what our problem was and why we weren’t doing what Pops wanted.”

One of her siblings is out of line, Jill adds, telling her that Jim Bob warned them all that “if we don’t stand up to you both on this issue, then we will stand up to him.”

Jill writes that just as she and Derick wondered why they weren’t getting paid, Jim Bob and Michelle offered their adult children a lump sum payment of $80,000 to “start their lives.”

After all, Jill writes, she and Derick earned $175,000 over their years of television work.