US EditionHorrific Reality Inside Sex Trafficking Cult as Actor Convicted of 'Slave Master' Role Speaks Out for First Time
- On Monday, Allison Mack said Kristin Kreuk encouraged her to try NXIVM, revealing this on her new Allison After NXIVM podcast, speaking publicly for the first time since incarceration.
- During their time in Vancouver, Mack says both actresses felt a 'weird ennui' amid Smallville's success, leading Kreuk to join NXIVM and encourage Mack to try it.
- Kreuk described the group enthusiastically, repeatedly urging Mack to attend a women-only weekend program and saying it was 'the most amazing thing,' Mack recalls.
- After pleading guilty, Mack was sentenced to three years and fined $20,000 by a U.S. federal court, and she is now speaking publicly on the podcast to tell her side.
- Legal actions against NXIVM leaders resulted in Keith Raniere, NXIVM founder, receiving a 120-year sentence and $1.75 million fee, while Nancy Salzman, NXIVM co-leader, got 42 months and was released last year.
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Allison Mack Did Not Understand Why NXIVM 'Slaves' Found Branding Their Flesh Painful: 'It's Fine'
Allison Mack discusses the ceremony in which women were branded with a cauterizing device as a sign of their allegiance to a subsect of the NXIVM cultJemal Countess/Getty Allison Mack outside federal court in 2018NEED TO KNOWOn the podcast "Allison After NXIVM," Allison Mack, 43, is talking about her time in NXIVM — specifically D.O.S., which was a female subsect within the larger cult that included a branding ceremonyThe women would have a sym…
Allison Mack, a Smallville actress linked to the NXIVM case, for the first time became aware of her experience with the NXIVM sect, created by Keith Raniere and for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2020.The actress was sentenced to three years in prison and the payment of a $20,000 fine for the crimes of criminal association and conspiracy of criminal association in June 2021 by the Federal Court of the East District of New York.Ac…
'Smallville' Star Allison Mack Is Finally Opening Up About The NXIVM Cult — & Which Costar Introduced Her
Smallville star Allison Mack is opening up about her time in the NXIVM cult for the first time. The new CBC podcast Allison After NXIVM, which premiered on November 10, chronicles the actress' experience with the cult, and its leader Keith Raniere, across 7 episodes. The podcast dives into Allison's role as "Raniere's right-hand woman," as Variety reports, and her impact on the other members of the group. "She encouraged other women to go to him…
The actress, who got out of prison, confides in her new seven-episode podcast.
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