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The statement, posted to Facebook by Chynna’s sister Kennedy Deese, is in apparent response to Bryer’s father Al Schmegelsky’s statements in the media and a book he wrote titled Red Flagged, describing the rifts in Bryer’s family growing up. Kennedy Deese’s statement says that her own family was not “defeated by divorce, mental health, violence, poverty ... alcohol or drugs.”