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alison mackThe smallville star who went to jail for his actions in Nxivm sex culthas admitted she was “abusive” during her time with the group in a new podcast.
Since his release from federal prison nearly two years ago, Mack, 43, has launched a podcast titled “Ellison After NXIVM.” His podcast comments are the first comments made about him time with creed Since returning to public life.
“I was excited by the power that I felt that these young, beautiful women looked at me and listened to me,” she said on the show. “And – yes – the sexuality of it was exciting.”
Mack rose to fame with the lead role in the Superman television series. smallvilleWhich ran for 10 seasons from 2001 to 2010.
She was arrested in 2018 and convicted a year later on charges of sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and racketeering. he accepted molestation of women in cult sleeping with it Leader, keith ranierewhich is currently Spent 120 years in jail After being convicted of racketeering, sex trafficking and other crimes.
“I certainly admit and acknowledge that I abused my power and I was mean and I was coercive,” Mac says in the seventh episode of the series. “But I also couldn’t deny the fact that there was a part of me that was altruistic and desperate to help people, and I wanted to be better — and I was willing to do anything to make myself better and help other people get better.”
He said his role was to help break the women’s resistance to sleeping with the cult leader.
Mack, speaking about a specific woman in the cult, said, “It was my job to tell her what to do with her for her development.” “The more she said, ‘I’m scared, I don’t want to do this,’ the more I said, ‘You need to do this, and the longer you wait, the better the results.'”
Podcast host Natalie Robehamed asked Mac how she became involved in cult sex trafficking. She claimed she was trying to do the “opposite” of Forcing women into painful sexual encounters With the cult leader.
“I was trying to heal sexual trauma,” she said. “And then I turned around and there was someone who was supporting it. I mean, that’s why it took me a year to plead guilty, because I was like, I can’t face that fact. I can’t face that truth.”
When asked how she joined the cult, she said that she was influenced to join the cult after a smallville Actor Kristin Kreuk took a course offered by the group.
“It was all she could talk about. She was so excited about it, you know?” Mac said.
In 2018, Kreuk said that he had no contact with the cult after 2013 and that he had “minimal contact with people who were still involved.” She said allegations that she was involved in any illegal activity were “completely false.”
Mac revealed that she also slept with Raniere, convincing her that doing so would help her deal with the childhood sexual abuse she had experienced.
She said that the fact that she was a celebrity helped her recruitment efforts.
“I took full advantage of what I had,” he said. “The success I had as an actor… was a power tool I had to get people to do what I wanted.”
Mac says that, despite his actions, he is not a “pervert”.
She said, “People can believe me, or people can think I’m full of nonsense and don’t listen.” “But I feel like I at least have to say it out loud for myself – once.”