Kendra Duggar broke down about her anxiety in a private call with her husband, Joseph Duggar, while he was in jail after being arrested on child molestation charges.
“I was anxious to pick up the phone,” Kendra told Joseph in the 20-minute jail call exclusively obtained by Page Six.
Kendra noted that she was “glad” to talk to him, but that her anxiety is “on a whole other level” from anything she’s ever experienced in her life.
“At one moment I could be fine, and the next minute I could be, you know, absolutely beside myself,” she said.
Kendra said she was “feeling so weak” the night before.
“I didn’t know what to do or what to say or what to talk about … I was kind of just spiraling downhill and thankfully [Joseph’s mom] brought food up to me and stopped me and prayed with me and stuff.”
Kendra noted that she doesn’t want to be alone right now.
“I think that I can’t be by myself and for too long,” she said. “I can be outside by myself, but it’s really, yeah, that’s just where I’m at.”
Kendra, 27, told Joseph, 31, that she has been having trouble eating amid her anxiety battle.
“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,” Joseph told his wife. “I’m praying this specifically for you.
She said, “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.”
Joseph told Kendra that she doesn’t leave his thoughts.
“Whenever I’m not thinking about you, I’m thinking about psalms,” he said, adding elsewhere in the call, “Stay strong.”
They ended the call by saying “I love you” to each other.
Joseph was arrested in Arkansas on March 18 for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl.
He was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior involving a victim younger than the age of 12 and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 or older.
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The alleged incident happened on a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Joseph’s suspected victim, who is now 14, told authorities Joseph molested her while on the trip, according to a court affidavit obtained by Page Six.
The “Counting On” star was extradited to Florida last week, where he entered a not guilty plea.
Joseph was released on $600,000 bond and has been ordered to not have unsupervised contact with any minors.
On March 20, Joseph was hit with additional charges out of Arkansas — four second-degree counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, and four second-degree counts of false imprisonment on March 20. Kendra received the same charges and was released on bond after turning herself in.
The couple, who share four children, are due back in court for the Arkansas charges this month.
Page Six exclusively revealed that Joseph called Kendra every day while being held at the Washington County Correctional Facility. He also received just one visitor — his lawyer.
