we're the duggars. >> jill duggar. dillard, nicknamed sweet jill muffin by her family, lived a seemingly idyllic life as the fourth child of jim, bob and michelle duggar, stars of the hit tlc reality series 19 kids and counting. >> okay, everybody. it is time for breakfast at the conservative christian and ever expanding family, a source of fascination for their strict rules on modest dressing, homeschooling and courting. >> but now jill and her husband, derek dillard, say that wholesome veneer masked a damaging culture of control. >> even if you're an adult, even if you're you've been an adult for a long time. you're married with kids. if your parents don't give their blessing, then you're not honoring them. and the family becoming embroiled in scandal. >> what's it like to know that your your parents were protecting your abuser? the couple now discussing what they say cameras didn't capture in their book counting the cost. but what were the costs in the way that you took? account of them? >> the biggest one is relati

we're the duggars. >> reporter: for nearly a decade jill's family was a fixture on reality tv.scribe the family drama the cameras didn't capture and the costs that came with it. what were the costs in the way you took account? >> closeness in relationships with my family. that's been one of the biggest costs that i have seen in trying to have healthy boundaries. >> reporter: jill writing about the culture of control she says she was raised in. her parents devout followers of the leader of the institute of basic life principles. >> one of the main things with the book is this toxic patriarch. this idea that parents maintain control of their children into adulthood. >> reporter: the couples say jill's father jim bob treated them harshly for trying to step back from the show. jill claims he asked her to sign a paper on the eve of her wedding but refused to show her the few filming contract she unknowingly signed. >> i feel like i was tricked into it. >> reporter: derrick, you are a lawyer. you referred to this contract as fraud? >> yeah. i still believe that. i stand behind that.

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