Jinger Duggar, a star on the former TLC series, 19 Kids & Counting, has revealed a deleted scene from the show. She’ll never forget when she rode horseback for a “traumatizing” episode that never aired.
Before TLC‘s 19 Kids and Counting was cancelled in 2015, took part in several scenes where the series followed her large family. Once, she was terrified during a horse ride, but they didn’t air the scene.
Jinger recalls ‘traumatic’ scene
Jinger has recalled a “traumatizing” experience while filming 19 Kids & Counting from 2008 to 2015. She was very young at the time, when cameras captured the moment she rode a horse in New Mexico.
The scary moment happened on a dude ranch called Truth or Consequences, which was two and a half hours from the closest town. It had “nothing,” Jinger told husband Jeremy Vuolo in a YouTube video.
“We drove and drove and drove, and it felt like we were never going to get there,” she explained.
“It’s an out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere dude ranch,” she recalled, but she thought she’d get to blissfully ride horses for days.
She added: “On one day, they were taking us out on a trail ride and I got on a horse and they were like, ‘This horse is chill, it’s kind of slow.’ But, they failed to tell me one thing.”
The horse didn’t like water.
TLC didn’t air scary moment
She recalled: “We came up to this body of water [that] was like a wide creek, but the horse stood there for a second and then it jumped over the creek with me on its back and then it started bucking.”
“I was holding onto the horn and it shook me up quite a bit, so they took me off,” Jinger added. Despite thinking her fear would make “good TV,” TLC decided not to air the footage.
She suggested of the trail ride, which was meant to air on the 19 Kids & Counting pilot, “Maybe [they didn’t use the footage] because I was, like, traumatized [and] they were trying to be nice.”
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