{"id":1788990,"date":"2022-12-28T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788990"},"modified":"2022-12-28T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:49:42","slug":"smallville-actress-claims-she-joined-sex-cult-to-jump-start-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smallville-actress-claims-she-joined-sex-cult-to-jump-start-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smallville\u2019 Actress Claims That She Joined a Sex Cult To Kick-Start Her Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmallville-actress-claims-she-joined-sex-cult-to-jump-start-her-career%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>\u201cSmallville\u201d actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/former-smallville-actress-speaks-out-before-sentencing-for-role-in-sex-cult-biggest-mistake-and-regret-of-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allison Mack<\/a> said she first joined the notorious sex cult NXIVM because she believed the organization\u2019s co-founder could help her to reinvigorate her career.<\/p>\n<p>Mack initially made the comments during a 2017 interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis \u2014 but they resurfaced in a Monday podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/a-new-case-the-nxivm-sex-cult\/id1652941051?i=1000591419148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Infamous: Inside America\u2019s Biggest Scandals<\/a>,\u201d It featured Gabriel Sherman and Grigoriadis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI moved to Albany to fill that emptiness and find the soul of myself again, if that makes sense, as it had fizzled,\u201d Mack spoke of Mack&#8217;s move to NXIVM headquarters. She went on to explain that she had even asked the cult\u2019s co-founder Keith Raniere whether he could help her to reinvent her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Keith if he would help me become a great actress again because I felt like I was a fraud,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Initially billed as a self-help group, NXIVM was created in 1998 by Raniere, 62, and Nancy Salzman, 68 \u2014 but things began to go south when former members began to tell stories about being branded with Raniere\u2019s initials and about younger female members being recruited and forced to sleep with him.<\/p>\n<p>Mack denied that all in the 2017 interview. She told Grigoriadis she had never helped Raniere to recruit new partners and that she believed that, despite warnings by friends that NXIVM was a deranged cult, that she was making the right decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not recruiting young, nubile women to be his sex slaves,\u201d Mack claimed that people were making baseless allegations. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s \u2018The Crucible,\u2019 it\u2019s the McCarthy trials, it\u2019s just like, throwing accusations and spreading like wildfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mack stated that Mack had become concerned for her by her friends&#8217; concern. Although she occasionally questioned her own judgement, she continued to push back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Talk to me for a few minutes. Let me tell you what we\u2019re doing,&#8217;\u201d She said that she was not convinced by her friends&#8217; statements. \u201c\u2018No, you\u2019re brainwashed, you\u2019re sick.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just was like walking with myself and I was going like, \u2018Am I crazy? Am I one of these awful people that you read about that does horrible things and thinks that she\u2019s doing things for God?\u2019 I had a lot of conversations with myself like that,\u201d Mack revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-smallville-actress-allison-mack-pleads-amanda-prestigiacomo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty<\/a> in 2019 to charges saying that she did, in fact, assist in manipulating women into becoming Raniere\u2019s sex slaves. She was sentenced for three years in prison. Raniere was sentenced in 2019 to 120 years \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/09\/appeals-court-upholds-sentences-for-nxivm-sex-cult-leader-keith-raniere\/?_gl=1*no2fo1*_ga*MTkzMTkwODE1Ni4xNjY3OTUyODk2*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*MTY3MjI1NTE4Ny4yMDYuMS4xNjcyMjU2NzU4LjAuMC4w&#038;_ga=2.33937377.1598016361.1670171891-1931908156.1667952896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost his most recent appeal<\/a> Early December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSmallville\u201d actress Allison Mack said she first joined the notorious sex cult NXIVM because she believed the organization\u2019s co-founder could help her to reinvigorate her career. Mack initially made the comments during a 2017 interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis \u2014 but they resurfaced in a Monday podcast, \u201cInfamous: Inside America\u2019s Biggest Scandals,\u201d which featured Grigoriadis and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1788993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12233,5880,4409,4856,6303,6202,12234,12235,7937,6195],"class_list":["post-1788990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-smallville","tag-actress","tag-career","tag-claims","tag-cult","tag-daily","tag-joined","tag-kick-start","tag-sex","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}