Embattled 27-year-old Josh Duggar, who has been in the news lately for admitting he molested his sisters and after his named cropped up in the Ashley Madison adultery website database, has now checked himself into rehab, ostensibly for help for sexual addictions.
“Josh checked himself into a long-term treatment center,” the Duggar family said in a statement on DuggarFamily.com. “For him it will be a long journey toward wholeness and recovery. We pray that in this he comes to complete repentance and sincere change.”
The family also said they will gather around Josh’s wife, Anna, and the couple’s four children to provide “love, care and devoted support … as she also receives counsel and help for her own heart and future.”
Josh, who used to work for the Family Research Council, a traditional, Christian-based organization in Washington, D.C., was forced to admit he molested his sisters when he was a teenager after a police report that was supposed to have been closed to public scrutiny was released to the press.
Shortly after, the Duggar family’s TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting” was cancelled.
Josh was then implicated in the Ashley Madison adultery website hacking scandal, after his name and email address was released to the public. Shortly after, an adult entertainer, Danica Dillon, told InTouch magazine Josh approached her at a strip club and paid her for sex.
“He walked into the Gold Club like a normal patron and said he’d been a fan for a long time and has watched my career grow … and that he loved watching my very first scene [on a porn website],” she said to the magazine.
Dillon said she accepted $1,500 from Josh for sex.
The Duggar family statement did not specify what treatment Josh would receive in rehab, but all his past indiscretions have involved sex, rather than drugs or alcohol.
The family’s statement went on: “We are so thankful for the outpouring of love, care and prayers for our family during this most difficult situation with Josh. As parents we are so deeply grieved by our son’s decisions and actions. His wrong choices have deeply hurt his precious wife and children and have negatively affected so many others. He has also brought great insult to the values and faith we hold dear.”
