{"id":238648,"date":"2026-05-06T13:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/josh-duggars-complaints-to-his-mother-michelle-revealed-in-alleged-prison-text-message-read-it-here\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:54:36","slug":"josh-duggars-complaints-to-his-mother-michelle-revealed-in-alleged-prison-text-message-read-it-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/josh-duggars-complaints-to-his-mother-michelle-revealed-in-alleged-prison-text-message-read-it-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Duggar\u2019s Complaints to His Mother Michelle Revealed in Alleged Prison Text Message: Read It Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/tags\/josh-duggar\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Josh Duggar<\/strong><\/a> is currently in prison, and a text message he sent to his mother, <em>19 Kids and Counting<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"\/tags\/michelle-duggar\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Michelle Duggar<\/strong><\/a>, has been unveiled. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know, <strong>Duggar <\/strong>was accused of sexually abusing five girls when he was a teenager, two of which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2015\/06\/04\/jessa-jill-duggar-identify-as-josh-duggars-victims-say-hes-not-a-pedophile-in-interview-promo-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed to be his sisters <strong>Jill Duggar<\/strong> and <strong>Jessa Duggar<\/strong><\/a>. These allegations came to light in May of 2015. He was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2022\/05\/25\/josh-duggar-sentenced-to-over-12-years-in-prison-in-child-pornography-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography<\/a>. He was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2021\/04\/30\/josh-duggar-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear exactly when he sent this message, but <em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/years-after-molesting-sisters-josh-duggar-complained-about-lack-of-family-support-exclusive-11967742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a><\/em> obtained the following text:<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\">&#8220;[I]ts (sic) hard to be here while everyone is out going and doing. its (sic) especially hard in light of how things have been since may 2015 when everything was devastated for [wife] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/anna-duggar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna<\/a> <\/strong>and I,&#8221; he allegedly wrote.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">He said they were &#8220;devastated&#8221; when they were &#8220;cut off from public view on tv&#8221; and &#8220;kept at arm&#8217;s length by most of the family.&#8221; He claimed that &#8220;no one banded together to stand with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_36-0\">He added: &#8220;the public statements and pr work to save shows and public images i feel were placed above family relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_38-0\">He claimed his mother was &#8220;worr[ied] more about pr than anything else.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_38-0\">He continued, &#8220;I am not trying to shift blame for anything , I am saying please consider your role and change so that other children are not in the same situations later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did say that his mom also offered support to him &#8220;privately,&#8221; but ultimately felt &#8220;it was as if there were 18 kids and life went on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, both of his parents<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2015\/06\/03\/jim-bob-michelle-duggar-speak-out-about-son-joshs-molestation-scandal-in-new-interview-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>Jim Bob <\/strong>and <strong>Michelle<\/strong>, spoke about <strong>Josh<\/strong>\u2018s sexual abuse<\/a> allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/06\/josh-duggars-complaints-to-his-mother-michelle-revealed-in-alleged-prison-text-message-read-it-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Duggar&#8217;s Complaints to His Mother Michelle Revealed in Alleged Prison Text Message: Read It Here<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/06\/josh-duggars-complaints-to-his-mother-michelle-revealed-in-alleged-prison-text-message-read-it-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Josh Duggar is currently in prison, and a text message he sent to his mother, 19 Kids and Counting&#8216;s Michelle Duggar, has been unveiled. If you don&#8217;t know, Duggar was accused of sexually abusing five girls when he was a teenager, two of which were revealed to be his sisters Jill Duggar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}