For 25 years, Toby Willis ruled over his family of 12 musical kids like a dictator. No one dared disobey the patriarch — seen on TLC’s “The Willis Family” — even though he was also sexually molesti…
” , chronicles both her harrowing childhood in a fundamentalist Christian family and the nightmare that ensued when she tried to escape from the family six years ago. The Willis clan first rose to fame in 2014, when they appeared in season 9 of “Willis Fisher chronicles her abusive childhood in her new memoir, “Unspeakable.”
Even at 23, despite being the lead singer, fiddle player and main songwriter for the family band, Jessica was not allowed a cellphone, and she was forbidden to go on dates without a chaperone. Like many of her siblings, her clothing and hairstyle had to be approved by her dad — who kept a stash of AR-15s at the house. When she began to rebel and indicated she wanted to leave home in her early 20s, her father called her “demonic.
‘I was . . . singing and putting on a performance but I was also putting on a performance every day offstage.‘Her mother approached her when Jessica was nine and asked her if her father was behaving inappropriately. Jessica nodded — a bit uncertainly. But her father denied everything and then became more surreptitious and “dangerous” in his abuse, Willis Fisher writes.
Brenda Willis, now 53, lives outside Nashville with her younger kids. Six of the Willis children, including Jessica, have married since their father’s imprisonment in 2016. Jessica said her mother has divorced Toby, although she kept a photo of him on her Facebook profile for months after his arrest before finally deleting it.
She later contemplated reaching out to her father in prison and possibly visiting him, but when she found out he had the option of turning down the request, she says she didn’t want to give him that choice.
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