Michelle Duggar gets into verbal altercation with paparazzi after bailing Kendra Duggar out of jail; Michelle claims she’s “protecting children”
A new video has surfaced showing the aftermath of Kendra Duggar‘s (short) stint in jail on Friday, which included Duggar Family matriarch Michelle getting into a verbal altercation with a paparazzi photographer who was parked on the road outside the Duggar Family’s compound in Arkansas.
The video– posted by TikToker @Shabba.com— shows Michelle wearing the same clothes as she did when she bailed Kendra out of jail following Kendra’s arrest for endangering the welfare of a minor and false imprisonment.
(Michelle’s son Joseph— who is married to Kendra— received the same charges as Kendra but had to stay in jail due to his being charged with child molestation earlier that week.)
In the video, Michelle— phone in hand— is shown yelling at the paparazzi photographer, insisting that it’s not right that he is filming and making money off the situation, especially when there are kids around. Michelle also insists that she’s “protecting children right now.”
When the photographer asks Michelle what “they” (i.e. Joe and Kendra) were doing to get arrested, Michelle becomes enraged. The mother of 19 screams “None of your business!” as her eyes bulge.
The photographer (who mistakenly thought that Kendra was Michelle’s offspring while Joe was her son-in-law) told Michelle that Joseph “was doing something way worse.”
“NO!” Michelle yells back. “You don’t have the right to be here!”
The clip fades out and then comes back to show what is likely what happened right before the scene we just watched. Michelle is seen scampering up a small hill (holding a water bottle and a bag).
She knocks on the man’s car window and he asks her to do an interview. Michelle refuses and tells him, “You cannot be here!”
“You are interfering with CHILDREN!” she tells him angrily. “…shame on you!”
The paparazzi photographer then informs Michelle that he’s “here for press,” even daring to call her “mom.”
“You will go! You will not ask me anything! You will have to talk to someone else!” Michelle says. “Shame on you!”
(In the comments section of the post on TikTok, the photographer stated he was on a public road.)
This is the first time Michelle has been seen since the news broke last week that her son Joseph (and later daughter-in-law Kendra) was arrested.
In addition to the child endangerment and false imprisonment charges, Joe is also facing a charge of Lewd and Lascivious Behavior– Molestation of a Victim Less Than 12 Years Old, as well as a charge of Lewd and Lascivious Behavior Conducted By a Person 18 Years or Older.
Last week, an alleged victim came forward and claimed that Joe molested her when she was nine years old and on vacation with him and her family in 2020.
Michelle and her husband Jim Bob have not yet released a public statement.
You can watch the full video below.
RELATED STORY: Kendra Duggar Looks Mortified in New Jail Booking Video Following Arrest for False Imprisonment & Child Endangerment