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Miranda Derrick is pushing again on a number of the allegations within the current Netflix docuseries, “Dancing for the Satan: The 7M TikTok Cult.”
Derrick, a dancer with greater than 2 million followers on TikTok, and her household are featured within the three-part sequence that explores a spiritual group and its connection to a expertise administration firm referred to as 7M Movies.
“I simply wished to hop on right here actually fast and initially, say thanks a lot to everyone who’s been so supportive throughout this time,” Derrick stated in a video shared on Instagram. “Within the subsequent couple of slides, I’ve included my statements of this documentary that’s simply been launched. I can’t go into an excessive amount of element reason for authorized functions, however I simply wished so as to add my aspect of the story a little bit bit.”
It was alleged within the docuseries that the dancer’s household had misplaced contact along with her for prolonged time as a result of her involvement with the non secular group and he or she was “not in management” of her life.
CNN has reached out to Netflix for remark.
Derrick started her assertion providing her appreciation for “the priority that has been expressed for my well-being.”
“Resulting from pending litigation, wherein I’m a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit, it’s not acceptable for me to touch upon particular allegations,” she wrote. “Although I’ll state that I don’t condone abuse in any approach.”
She went on to share her emotions for her dad and mom and her sister, Melanie Wilking, with whom she had carried out dance with as a part of the Wilking Sisters.
“I really like my Mother, Dad and Melanie and they’re going to ceaselessly be part of my life. The reality is, we simply don’t see eye to eye at the moment. I consider that this documentary is a one-sided story,” Derrick wrote. “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.”
She went on to deal with a number of the factors raised within the docuseries, together with that her affiliation with Shekinah Church and 7M Movies led to her distance from her household and her determination to not attend her grandfather’s funeral. (7M Movies made a public statement in 2022 asserting that it’s “function(d) individually and aside” from Shekinah Church.)
“Earlier than we went into the hospital to [say our last goodbyes], I began to hope for our Papa within the automotive and Melanie acquired offended, indignant with me and advised me to cease and to by no means pray round her,” she wrote.
Derrick additionally stated that she began her personal social media account after her sister had locked her out of the one they used to share.
“I’m only a lady making an attempt to stay my life. I’m not a sufferer, I’m not in any hurt, I’m not being abused,” stated the performer, who’s married to fellow dancer James Derrick, referred to as BDash, who can also be one of many topics of the docuseries. “I’ve by no means requested my household or anybody else to ‘assist’ me in any approach. Respectfully, what I select to do with my life is as much as me.”