Amy Duggar has never been one to hold back when it comes to her true feelings about her relatives, and she's definitely not showing any signs of stopping now. In a new interview with the Daily Mail, Amy accused Jim Bob and Michelle of "brainwashing" their children, and that's just scratching the surface of what she had to say …
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Amy spoke out against the Duggars' religion.
Amy has always been openly critical of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, or IBLP, the cult-like religion that her aunt and uncle follow, but this interview might have been the harshest stand she's taken against it yet.
"You know what's crazy is that they won't allow tampons, but they'll allow predators in the home," she said. "IBLP, it kind of breeds predators, like it said it breeds little predators, and it's true because they're not taught about sex in a healthy way until they're married and they're having their honeymoon. I think a lot of IBLP families have good intentions toward that like, 'I'm gonna protect my kids,' but you can only protect your kids so much, you have to educate."
She called out the IBLP for 'brainwashing literally every wife and every daughter.'
Woman are considered to be under the "umbrella" of their father's authority until they get married, and when they enter into a courtship, they are required to have a chaperone along on their dates until they are married, which Amy said she refused to do for Josh and Anna when they were still dating.
"It's a very distorted view of how a sexual relationship in a healthy way actually goes, and that's just so sad to me because I hope all of those women that are a part of IBLP truly [have] like such a great, healthy marriage and a sexual relationship," she said.
She's concerned about Jim Bob and Michelle's younger daughters.
Though many of their children have gotten married and started families of their own, Jim Bob and Michelle still have several of their 19 children living in their home, including daughters Johannah, Jennifer, Jorydyn, and Josie.
"I have a big question mark when it comes to how they're being raised, and I hope that they're living such a happy life and that they are protected," Amy said. "But then again, they're under the umbrella right now. So the umbrella of God, and then the husband, and then you're right there. As far as that's concerned, you know they're not married and they're still very young, and so they're being influenced, that's obvious."
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Amy says she's not speaking with Jim Bob and Michelle.
As a mom to her 3-year-old son, Daxton, Amy has decided it's better for his safety to stay away.
"If I cannot trust people that didn't protect their daughters from horrific abuse and being used like that … if they're not being protected, then how should I trust them to protect my own child when they can't protect their own?" she said. "Just to know that my little guy isn't gonna be knowing the younger kids, it does hurt, it does sting, and I wish it didn't have to be that way, but protection for my little one is the most important thing on the planet to me."
She says she would participate in another docuseries if asked.
After the success of Amazon Prime Video's Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, which Amy participated in alongside husband Dillon King, there have been rumors of a sequel – and Amy's not opposed to sharing more.
"I would be honored to do something like that again because if it helps one person, if it helps one mom, if it helps one daughter, if it helps a son, if it helps anyone to get the truth out, then it's worth it, it's a hundred percent worth it," she said.
