To catch everyone up to speed: Derick Dillard and Jill Duggar left Counting On in 2017, around when the ex-Walmart employee bashed transgender activist and fellow TLC star, Jazz Jennings, on Twitter. Cut to January 2020, when Dillard — who is currently in law school — accused the network of not paying him and Jill for their work on the show. The dad explained how he joined the series believing its stars "volunteered" their time in exchange for a platform to promote their religious beliefs, but later realized Jim Bob Duggar had allegedly negotiated a pricey contract with TLC. "It was presented to us as something that was done as a ministry that TLC periodically subsidized in the form of reimbursements for things ... but not any actual pay on top of that," he argued on Instagram (via In Touch Weekly).
Once Dillard learned the alleged truth about the patriarch supposedly lying about the contract (it's estimated Jim Bob is worth $3.5 million), he bounced. "It eventually became apparent that it wasn't even volunteerism, because typically volunteerism assumes that you can leave without serious risks, such as legal/financial threats, in addition to the extreme emotional pressure from within and without your family, which unfortunately end with painful burning of bridges just so that you can protect your family," he added.
Wow. Dillard didn't name Jim Bob, although we have a feeling he's not happy with his father-in-law.
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