Amy Duggar slammed her cousin Joseph Duggar for his bizarre tribute to his wife Kendra after their prison phone call was leaked.
“Did you hear this? He called his wife ‘competent’ and she took it as a compliment,” Amy, 39, said in a TikTok video on Thursday.
“Well, last time I checked, marriage isn’t a performance review, and she’s not your employee. And she hasn’t filed any paperwork. So, what’s the point?”
“But I guess that’s what happens when standards are set so low. It’s so sad that she seems like she’s going to accept any crumbs she receives. That means she’s probably been starving for a long time,” continued Amy, who also condemned her cousin’s arrest in another social media video.
After Joseph was arrested on March 18 on child molestation charges, multiple prison phone calls between Joseph and his wife were made public.
In one of the call recordings obtained by Page Six, the “19 Kids and Counting” alum boasted to Kendra about staying in shape while doing intense workouts in prison.
“I train burn boot camp style,” he said with a laugh. “I live in a 7×11 style (cell) and I thought I might as well do something. Squats, push-ups, jumping off the edge of the bed. … I’ve done all those things.”
She also revealed that she is “trying not to eat junk” and focusing on “vegetables and protein.”
“I hope you get in shape in the process,” he joked, and Kendra said with a laugh.
Joseph was initially booked into the Washington County Jail in Arkansas, but was later transferred to the Bay County Jail in Florida, where he was charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl.
He posted $600,000 bail and was released on March 31 after pleading not guilty to charges of lewd conduct with a victim under 12 years of age and lewd conduct with a person over 18 years of age.
On Saturday, it was reported that Joseph was able to post bail thanks to the help of his wife, Kendra, who turned their home into a rental property and sold many of their personal items to scrape together the cash.
Kendra was also arrested in Arkansas on March 20th. She and her husband were charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of false imprisonment.
The mother of four was released from the Washington County Jail hours after her arrest.
