TikTok star Melanie Wilking is weighing in on the Dancing for the Satan: The 7M TikTok Cult drama. In response to her estranged sister Miranda Derrick’s response to the doc, Melanie claimed that Miranda and her husband, James Derrick, “had been reached out to many instances” about it.
“And declined each time,” Melanie instructed Entry Hollywood on Thursday, June 6.
The social media character went on to level out that she and her household “knew [Miranda] was in a cult, so in fact, we’re going to have our guard up.” The dancer additionally defined that she “went to 2 of [7M’s] non-public dinners and two of the providers that you must be invited to, and I picked up on all these crimson flags.”
“So, when she’s saying that we weren’t supportive, it was as a result of I used to be seeing what she wasn’t seeing,” Melanie continued, referring to Miranda. “I used to be seeing that they wished to, as a result of I wasn’t going anymore, they wished to tear us aside. And certain sufficient look the place we’re.”
Earlier this week, Miranda shared an announcement through her Instagram Tales concerning the cult allegations made within the three-part Netflix docuseries, which premiered on Could 29.
“I like my Mother, Dad and Melanie and they’re going to ceaselessly be part of my life,” Miranda started. “The reality is, we simply don’t see eye to eye at the moment. I imagine that this documentary is a one-sided story. I gave my life to Jesus Christ in 2020 and requested my household for some area within the very starting to gather my ideas and course of my new stroll I wished to take with God.”
Miranda then added that no person “likes to be portrayed as their brainwashed/not answerable for her personal life/shell of herself/human trafficked daughter/sister when that simply isn’t the reality.”
The Netflix doc focuses on the controversy with 7M Movies Shekinah Church, which Miranda has been concerned in since 2020. The group was based by pastor Robert Shinn, who’s at the moment in a authorized battle towards a number of former 7M members.
Robert filed a defamation lawsuit towards a former church member in 2022. The member denied the accusations, and she or he countersued Robert the next yr. In March 2023, the previous member alleged, “Shekinah is a cult working underneath the disguise of a spiritual establishment,” per Rolling Stone.