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\nDance Moms star Holly Frazier posted a TikTok defending her daughter, Nia Sioux’s, new memoir, Bottom of the PyramidThe video comes after her fellow Dance Moms alums Kelly Hyland and Christi Lukasiak criticized the book on their Back to the Barre podcastBottom of the Pyramid is now available to purchase<\/p>\n
Dance Moms alum Holly Frazier has a message for critics of her daughter Nia Sioux’s new memoir.\n<\/p>\n
On Monday, Nov. 3, Frazier, 55, posted a TikTok\u00a0<\/a>video supporting Sioux’s Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life, which was released on Tuesday, Nov. 4.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n In the book, Sioux, 24, discusses her time on the hit Lifetime reality show, the alleged racism and mistreatment she experienced from her former dance teacher, Abby Lee Miller<\/a>, and her relationship with the show and its cast now.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Frazier and Sioux starred on the show for seven seasons from 2011 to 2017. Sioux was just 9 years old when the first season aired and turned 15 during her last season.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n In the video, Frazier hit back at critics who blamed her for allowing Sioux to be on the show for so long, even after facing multiple instances of alleged racism from Miller, 60.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cI am quiet because this is Nia\u2019s moment to shine, but I see you,\u201d Frazier says in the video. \u201cSome of you are being manipulative by trying to deflect the issue onto me. The issue is not me \u2026 Do not invalidate [Nia\u2019s] experience by trying to shift the blame on her mother. Shame on you. You should be embarrassed. That was an ignorant, low blow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The mom of three continued and says that the issues Sioux experienced on the show were from \u201csomeone who did not do their job.\u201d \u201cNo one was hired to be evil or cruel,\u201d she added.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The TikTok comes after Frazier\u2019s fellow Dance Moms castmates, Christi Lukasiak and Kelly Hyland, said on Monday’s installment of their Back to the Barre<\/a> podcast that they weren\u2019t given a heads-up <\/a>about the book or its contents.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cShe talks about all of us and our kids, and I just feel like \u2026 a phone call would have been nice, saying ‘My daughter is going to talk about everybody in the book,’ \u201d Hyland said during the podcast, adding, “Meanwhile, my kids weren’t even there for 90% of it, what she’s talking about in the book. But we’re lumped in all of that.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Nia Sioux on Dance Moms as a child.<\/p>\n Lifetime<\/p>\n In her TikTok video, Frazier said that she and Sioux \u201cdon\u2019t owe anyone anything,\u201d nor do they have to ask for permission.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSo many people have been touched by [Nia\u2019s] experience that she wanted to share [it] because she knows other people identify and relate and she\u2019s not alone.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re not going to do is manipulate the truth and the narrative to fit your own agenda because you don\u2019t want to hold certain people accountable \u2026 We\u2019re not going to take advantage and do my kid wrong.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Frazier went on to thank supporters, and claimed most critics “have not even read the book.”\n<\/p>\n “Instead of talking about my kid, instead of talking about a book you haven’t read, why don’t you support her?,” Frazier said in the video.\n<\/p>\n She captioned her video in part: “I am disengaging from anyone who has the wrong opinion.”<\/p>\n Also in the podcast, Hyland questioned why Frazier didn\u2019t take Sioux off the show<\/a> if Miller was treating her so badly.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n In her book, Sioux detailed the alleged racism she faced from Miller, including her asking if Sioux ever wished she had \u201cWhite girl hair\u201d<\/a> and being given solos that had racial undertones to them.\u00a0She also detailed how Miller allegedly offered former Danity Kane member, Aubrey O’Day<\/a> $10,000 not to work with Sioux<\/a> on her music career in season 5.\n<\/p>\n Miller and O’Day did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.<\/p>\n Nia Sioux memoir Bottom of the Pyramid.<\/p>\n Harper Horizon<\/p>\n Sioux wrote that while her parents tried several times to take her off the show, they weren\u2019t able to because of their contract. She added that Frazier had to \u201cbite her tongue\u201d a few times and not confront Miller because Sioux wanted to prove to her dance teacher that she could do whatever was given to her.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n