Siegtville Actor Allison Mack says she was once trafficked by her role in the NXIVM Sex Cult – even though she expected it in federal prison, and she knew it was “abusive”.
“I’m excited about the power I feel that young, beautiful women are looking at me and listening to me,” Mack, 43, continues in a new podcast series titled Allison after NXIVMwhich contained his first public words since his release from prison about two years ago. “And – yes – the sexuality is exciting.”
Mack offered that recollection after pleading guilty in 2021 to manipulating women in the service of NXIVM’s leader, Keith Raniere, who was eventually convicted of sex-trafficking crimes. He was released from a federal prison near San Francisco in 2023 while Raniere was sentenced to 120 years behind bars.
Episode Seven Allison after NXIVM, produced by the CBC left paverno, in part tells how the Cast of the Superville joined in 2001 to recruit the women of NXIVI to join the offer given to her work.
Mack on the Podcast says that he was introduced to his Smilville Co-Star Krisistin Kreuk – and then invited to meet Raniere, the head of the organization that puts its own self-improvement group in New York.
Raniere was later convinced that being “physically close to him” would help him shed the childhood sexual abuse he had on the child he was covering, he said on the podcast. He explained how he was effective in getting women to join NXim, where they were brainwashed, branded with initials and forced to have sex with him.
“I’m capitalizing on the things I have,” Mack said on the podcast, whose publication Monday garnered coverage from outlets such as Vanity Fair, nbc and Oh! NEwS. “The success I’ve had as an artist… is a power tool I have to make people do what I want.”
Despite making it a point to say that he is one of the masterminds, Mack also acknowledges that he has “aggressive” emotions “in them.”
“I’m not nice, and … I’m abusive,” Mack – who moved to the US from Germany at the age of two – added.
Mack said at one particular moment that he was “the go-to [for Raniere] and this Person “.
“It was my job to change what to do with him for his growth,” Mack recalled. “The more he said, ‘I’m scared, I don’t want to do it,’ the more I said, ‘you have to do it, and the more you wait, the better.’
“The coercion started, and the pressure and the pressure and pressure … and then it was – like – rape.”
Federal officials counted Mack for joining NXIVM in April 2018 howl in October 2020.
Mack accepted his sentence in June 2021 in a hearing where he rejected Raniere.
“I made choices that I will always regret,” Mack said in court that day – while also expressing “remorse and guilt”.
On Allison after NXIVM, Mack said: “People think it’s twisted. But that’s not the case – it’s what it is for me.
“People will either believe me, or people will think I’m full of shit and won’t listen. But I feel like I have to say it myself – once.”