“I Was Excited By The Power”: SMALLVILLE Star Allison Mack Details Her Role In NXIVM Sex Cult
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As Chloe Sullivan, Allison Mack was a huge part of Smallville. While it’s unlikely that she’d have gone on to do much more than the odd TV role, the actress would have surely been popular on the convention scene among fans of the long-running Superman series.
Ultimately, Mack ended up spending nearly two years in federal prison for her role in the sex cult, NXIVM. Now, she’s telling her story in a seven-episode podcast, CBC’s Uncover, “Allison After NXIVM,” which premieres today.
The leader of the cult, Keith Raniere, is serving a 120-year sentence for sex trafficking, racketeering, fraud, and other crimes. Billed as a self-improvement group, the reality was far more sinister. Mack was one of his masters tasked with recruiting sexual slaves, delivering them to Raniere (who often branded and sexually abused them).
In the first episode of the podcast, Mack admits to being willfully ignorant of much of what was happening in NXIVM, saying, “I purposely kept myself from hearing things that would’ve been uncomfortable for me.”
Believing Raniere was manipulating and grooming her, as he was the other women in the cult, she explains, “If I recognised that Keith was manipulating all of us, and that this was a strategy for his own perversion, I had to acknowledge what I had chosen and that I had hurt people.”
When it was revealed that Raniere had been exploiting underage girls—a year after Mack was first charged—the actress pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and turned on her former leader. She remembers thinking, “I don’t know how this is true, but I’m going to plead guilty, because I am guilty. And I do believe that’s true. And I’m going to trust that I’ll be in therapy for years after this, and figure out how this happened.”
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