TikTok dancer’s family claims she’s ‘victim’ of LA-based ‘cult’: ‘We’re living in fear’
nypost.comwhich some on TikTok claim doubles as the Shekinah Church, a Pentecostal religious sect that people believe is a cult.Derrick’s sister, Melanie Wilking, spoke at length alongside parents Kelly and Dean Wilking in a video posted Feb.
24, in which they beg for Derrick’s safety and return home, alleging that she is being held hostage by 7M.“You don’t need to cut us off.
Life is going on and there are so many exciting things going on,” Melanie addresses Miranda in the video, which has more than 9,000 likes and nearly 2,000 comments.
She adds that the past 12 months have been the “hardest year of her life” but “we can’t share that [with Miranda].”The Post has reached out to Derrick, 7M Films and the Wilkings for comment after a follow-up video posted Wednesday showed a tense family “meeting.” Derrick denied being involved in a “cult,” but didn’t directly address any of the “concerns” from social media.Miranda’s separation from her family began when the sisters were supposed to fly from LA back home to Michigan for their grandfather’s funeral last January.
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