Actor Allison Mack reveals role in Nxivm sex cult in new podcast: ‘I was abusive’

Smallville actor, released from prison two years ago, tells how she helped coerce women for cult leader Keith Raniere

The Smallville actor Allison Mack says she was once riveted by the influence she wielded through her role in the Nxivm sex cult - though it eventually sent her to federal prison, and she now realizes it was abusive".

I was excited by the power that I felt having these young, beautiful women look to me and listen to me," Mack, 43, maintains in a new podcast series titled Allison After Nxivm, which contains her first public remarks since her release from prison about two years ago. And - yes - the sexuality of it was exciting."