Cheer’s Gabi Butler Talks About Her Controversial Parents

The Netflix documentary series—launched in early January—follows Navarro School’s cheerleaders as they put together to tackle Daytona’s NCA Nationwide Championships—and compete for their 14th top title. And while viewers at home (together with Reese Witherspoon and Chrissy Teigen) rooted for Jerry Harris to make mat, Morgan Simianer to stick the pyramid and Mackenzie “Sherbs“ Sherburn to get well from a tragic fall, they had been hesitant to cheer on Gabi Butler‘s reasonably, er, spirited dad and mom.

All through the six-episode show, the Boca Raton-based couple appeared to place an excessive amount of stress on their daughter, going so far as criticizing her for consuming a single egg. (As a substitute, her mother really helpful she select jackfruit, which might allegedly preserve her full for as much as 12 hours.)

And now, following the Web backlash, the 22-year-old addressed the controversy throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present. “When the present got here out, all of us watched it collectively as a household and we had been like, ‘Oh wow,'” she admitted to host Ellen DeGeneres. “It was a very massive eyeopener for all of us.”

“After we began the present, I used to be a bit of nervous, a bit of scared,” he defined to Ellen. “No person actually desires to speak concerning the dangerous issues that occurred of their life and have it on digicam.”

However it was that candor and honesty that allowed him to maneuver ahead.