Miranda Derrick’s Sister Hopes to Have ‘Real’ Relationship Once more

Melanie Wilking just isn’t accomplished combating for her sister. 

After the Netflix launch of Dancing for the Satan: The 7M TikTok Cult on Might 29 — which claims that Miranda Derrick is a member of an alleged cult overseen by Robert Shinn, the founding father of the Shekinah Church — Derrick has spoken out, calling the documentary “one-sided” and saying she and her husband have acquired hate mail and dying threats.

we by no means wished any type of violence to return her approach, and I am very sorry that she has skilled that as a result of our solely intent was to save lots of her from an unsafe surroundings and to provide her love and know that we’re right here to help her,”

“I do not perceive how my dad and mom and my sister thought that this documentary would assist me or would assist our relationship in any approach,” she stated in one social media video.

Along with denouncing the threats her sister has recieved, her sister tells PEOPLE that whereas they knew taking part within the docuseries may affect their dynamic with Derrick, staying quiet wasn’t an possibility — and that she nonetheless has hope they’ll get again to the place they was once.

“We have now all of the hope on the earth that we’ll get again to our relationship earlier to this,” Wilking, 25, says. “Even speaking to ex-members and seeing the opposite storyline of the sisters within the documentary and seeing that they are mending their relationship, that offers me hope as properly.”

Nevertheless, because it stands now, Wilking says that though she has reached out, she hasn’t heard from her sister because the docuseries was launched.

“We’re each going by loads,” she says. “Feelings are very heightened, so I do know she’ll come round when she’s prepared, however as of proper now, I’ve not heard from her.”

And listening to what her sister has stated publicly on her personal social media accounts in regards to the household has been troublesome.

“Listening to this stuff from my sister, it saddens me, however then I’ve to know that she’s been beneath this management for over three years, and so the person who’s sitting in entrance of her digicam and making these posts, that is not my true sister,” she says.

“I form of need to separate my feelings slightly bit and simply take it at face worth and know that that is from the church and Robert,” she continues. “If my sister had been who she was earlier to this, we’d by no means be within the scenario.”

“She’s so loving and type and cherished our household, and so for her to level fingers at us, it is simply not her true self,” Wilking provides.

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If the whole lot went in response to plan, Wilking says 5 years from now issues would look loads completely different than at this time.

“We’re hanging out, having household events, speaking on the day by day like we used to and simply being there to help one another,” she says of her dream state of affairs with Derrick. “That is all we have ever wished and greater than something is simply to be part of her life and I’d hope she would need that as properly.”

Within the meantime, Wilking is taking issues “in the future at a time.”

“We have been going by this for over three years, so I have been capable of course of and heal from that preliminary shock slightly bit,” she says. “Now that the documentary is out and other people can see the true story actually provides me consolation and peace, and the truth that we are able to hopefully save different folks is what will get me by.”