Miranda Derrick's Sister Melanie Wilking Says She Doesn't Want to be 'Defined by Trauma' in New Video Message

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sister is starting to address her followers after the release of .Following her released on June 2, Melanie Wilking (now Ekeler) took to her to share her gratitude in a lengthy video message. “I'm very thankful that Netflix gave us the platform to share our story to more people because in the beginning, you know, you could have just thought that it was a isolated family incident,” she said on June 2. “And now, watching the documentary, you know that it's so much bigger than that.”Melanie and her family went viral in 2022 when they went live on Instagram in the hopes of exposing Shekinah church pastor Robert Shinn for allegedly controlling young dancers in Los Angeles through his church and management company 7M Films.

At the time, many , though their plea led multiple 7M dancers to leave the church and come forward with stories of financial, emotional, and sexual abuse.The team behind Netflix’s gripping new docuseries unpacks what it took to expose the “7M TikTok Cult” and what comes next.By Of the responses to the documentary since its release on May 29, Melanie says her favorite messages come from parents who watched it with their own teens and young adult children. “They watch the documentary together and kind of [sit] down with their kids and go through some of those red flags that you may see when it comes to highly controlled environments,” she said. “Because this can happen to anybody.”After three years of fighting this battle, Melanie says she's planning to continue to share her family's story but is hoping to find “balance” when it comes to her social media feed moving forward.