Fox News has released a new promo for Megyn Kelly's interview with Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald that will air tonight. In the clip, Kelly is sitting with Jill and Jessa, who have both admitted that they were molested by their brother Josh when he was a teenager. Jessa wants viewers to know that they've forgiven Josh for his actions.
"I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying. I’m like, that is so overboard and a lie, really. I mean, people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this, because I was one of the victims," Jessa told Kelly.
Jessa and Jill both received professional counseling, and their parents told Fox News that they had placed "safeguards" in their home to monitor Josh constantly.
When asked on Extra whether she felt Dillard and Seewald's words were sincere, Kelly told host AJ Calloway, "I do, yeah I do. They told me that. They also talked about the journey from the pain to the forgiveness, and it was not without some bumps in the road.”
She continued, "They never chose to have this piece of their family story put out there, and I think they are struggling with what people are assuming about their family and about what happened to them."
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Her interview with Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald airs tonight on Fox News at 9 p.m. ET.
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