Lifetime is making a made-for-TV film about Ruby Franke after she was convicted of kid abuse, although it’s allegedly unauthorized.
“A word concerning the Lifetime film popping out about my household: I noticed the trailer out of the blue at school and had an nervousness assault,” the 42-year-old’s eldest daughter, Shari, wrote through Instagram Story on Friday, October 4. “None of us had been contacted concerning the film.”
Lifetime dropped a trailer for Mormon Mother Gone Improper: The Ruby Franke Story earlier this week, starring Emilie Ullerup as Franke and Heather Locklear as Jodi Hildebrandt. Per the footage, Ullerup, 39, performs a conservative mother influencer whose beliefs flip excessive after connecting with Locklear’s character. Similar to Franke claimed in actual life, the Lifetime persona even barred her children from consuming in the event that they forgot to make lunch on their very own.
“This film is trash and solely hurts my siblings extra,” Shari, 21, continued, claiming, “Not one of the proceeds are going to the children.”
She concluded, “Please don’t assist this film.”
Lifetime has not publicly responded to Shari’s accusations. Us Weekly has reached out for remark.
Franke rose to fame sharing her extremist parenting selections on her now-defunct “8 Passengers” YouTube channel. She later cofounded ConneXions Classroom with Hildebrandt, 55, which social media critics have likened to a cult. Franke beforehand made headlines for her controversial beliefs, together with the proclamation that youngsters didn’t deserve unconditional love.
Ruby and her now-estranged husband, Kevin Franke, share six youngsters: Shari, Chad, Abby, Julie, Russell and Eve.
Ruby and Hildebrandt had been every arrested in August 2023 on two counts of aggravated youngster abuse and held with out bail. In response to authorities on the time, one in every of Ruby’s sons was allegedly malnourished and escaped out of a window to ask a neighbor for meals and water. The arrest report famous that the kid had duct tape round his ankles and wrists.
Ruby and Hildebrandt each pleaded responsible to the costs and had been every sentenced in February to 4 consecutive jail phrases.
“My expenses are simply. They provide security to my household, accountability to the general public,” Ruby stated throughout her sentencing, taking accountability for “inflicting the accidents” on her youngsters.
Ruby additional claimed she had been “led to imagine” that the world was an “evil place.”
Shari, in addition to Ruby’s sisters, have condemned the disgraced YouTuber star’s actions.
“For the final three years, we’ve got stored quiet with reference to our sister Ruby Franke for the sake of her youngsters. Behind the general public scene, we’ve got achieved the whole lot we may to attempt and ensure the children had been protected,” Ellie Mecham, Julie Griffiths Deru and Bonnie Hoellein wrote in a joint Instagram assertion in August 2023. “Ruby was arrested which wanted to occur. Jodi was arrested which wanted to occur. The youngsters are actually protected, which is the No. 1 precedence.”
To report youngster abuse, seek the advice of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers’ Youngster Welfare Data Gateway for state-specific reporting telephone numbers.
Mormon Mother Gone Improper: The Ruby Franke Story premieres on Lifetime Saturday, October 26, at 8 p.m. ET.