Miranda Derrick, who was the subject of Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult , said she and her husband have been receiving death threats since the release of the Netflix docuseries. The dancer said in a video posted on her social media on Monday that she and her husband James Derrick felt “like our lives have been put in danger”. While she was enjoying trying to mend her relationship with her parents and sister, Derrick said she doesn’t understand their motivations for making the documentary.
“Hey guys, I know I don’t normally make this kind of content, but I just wanted to be transparent and a little vulnerable with you,” Derrick said. “Before this documentary, my husband and I – we felt safe,” she said. “Now that this documentary is out, we feel like our lives have been put in danger.
” The three-episode series premiered on 29 May on Netflix, and follows Derrick and her sister Melanie Wilking. It shows how Derrick became estranged from her family after she joined 7M that Netflix said “was a cult masquerading as a management company”. 7M is led by Robert Shinn, who is also the leader of Los Angeles’ Shekinah Church.
Dancing for the Devil shows how Derrick met her husband, and her subsequent introduction to the Shekinah Church, which the documentary claims is behind her estrangement from her family who allege that the invite-only church functions as a cult. Derrick said she and her husband “have both been followed in our cars”. “We have .