Crime
Kendra Duggar Reveals Severe Anxiety in Recorded Jail Phone Call With Joseph Duggar Amid Arrests
Joseph Duggar shared words of encouragement as wife Kendra Duggar opened up about her anxiety following their arrests.
In a recorded phone call between the couple from Joseph’s time behind bars, Kendra, 27, revealed her anxiety had been “on a whole other level.”
“I was anxious to pick up the phone,” Kendra told Joseph, 31, according to Page Six. “At one moment I could be fine, and the next minute I could be, you know, absolutely beside myself.”
The mother of four claimed she was having trouble eating and sleeping, adding, “I was kind of just spiraling downhill and thankfully [Michelle Duggar] brought food up to me and stopped me and prayed with me and stuff.”
“I just want you to know where I’m at. It’s just really hard. I know you’re in a really hard spot too, I just feel like I need to be encouraged,” Kendra told her husband.
Joseph responded that he had been praying for her while in jail.
“I’ve been praying specifically that you would get rest, that you would get food in, and that your energy would be sustained during this. I’m praying this specifically for you,” he said. “Whenever I’m not thinking about you, I’m thinking about psalms.”
“Stay strong,” he added.
In a previously released recording, the disgraced Counting On star claimed to be spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.
“I’ve been spending a lot of time reading, uh, reading the Bible, they got me a Bible in here,” Joseph said in a recording obtained by People on March 27. “I’m in solitary.”
Joseph was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older related to an alleged incident that happened during a family vacation in 2020.
Both Joseph and Kendra were later hit with four counts each of endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree and four counts of false imprisonment in the second degree.
They have both since been released on bail with court dates set for later this month.
