Allison Mack reveals mom's 'horrified' reaction to her marriage to sex cult member as she speaks out for first time
Topics: Podcast, Celebrity, US News, Crime, Sex Trafficking
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Topics: Podcast, Celebrity, US News, Crime, Sex Trafficking
Allison Mack reveals what her mom thought of her marriage to a fellow member of a sex cult.
In 2023, the former Smallville star was released after serving just 21 months of her three year sentence for her involvement in recruiting women as sex slaves for NXIVM cult leader, Keith Raniere.
The organization was marketed as a self-help support network and women's empowerment group, but was soon unveiled as a far more sinister pyramid scheme.
Dozens of women said they were coerced into joining the group where they were coerced to have sex with Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years behind bars for his crimes.
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Since Mack's release in 2023, the disgraced actress has been trying to turn her life around and has now given some insight into what her life was like inside the cult in a new podcast, Allison After NXIVM.
During the third episode, Mack touched upon her marriage to Canadian actress Nicki Clyne, whom was also a 'frontline' slave for Raniere.
The 43-year-old said: "Nicki was another one who didn’t really like me very much. I was too much for her.
"She didn’t like how performative I was, and didn’t like how outgoing I was, and loud I was, and sort of boisterous and gregarious and stuff.
“We were like sister wives, essentially. That’s, ultimately, what it ended up being.
"Even if that’s not what I initially thought it was, that was ultimately what it ended up being.”
Mack then revealed she decided to tie the knot with Clyne in 2017 so that the Canadian could remain in the US.
She said her decision was 'to get her to like me', adding that she was 'the only American citizen in the group'.
Shrugging off the decision, she explained: "I already know I’m not going to marry somebody else. What’s the difference? We’re basically married anyway. So why not?”
However, her mom had her own thoughts about the arrangement and recalled being 'horrified' when told of the news after the marriage was already official. Clyne's mother was the witness at the ceremony.
"I was hurt that she didn’t trust me,” Mindy Mack said in the podcast.
“I think it’s because she knew that I would say, ‘What the hell are you doing?’
"Because it was Keith’s idea, of course. There was some stuff going on that was hurtful to me, that was extremely out of character for Allison.”
The couple went their separate ways a few years later and divorced in 2020 amid the court battle, after which Mack was convicted of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy.
She avoided a longer sentence for co-operating with cops to bring Raniere to justice.
In June this year, Mack went on to remarry former neo-Nazi Frank Meeink, reports US Weekly.