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Allison Mack is blaming her “Smallville” co-star Kristin Kreuk for her involvement in Nxivm.
During the first episode of her new “Allison After Nxivm” podcast, Mack, 43, claimed that Kreuk, 42, introduced her to the purported self-help organization that has since been exposed as a sex cult.
Mack served 21 months in prison for her participation in the group and is now sharing her story in her seven-episode podcast series.
“We went to Syria and Turkey together, we went to Mongolia together, we went to Paris, and we had so much fun, and that became kind of like a thing,” Mack recalled of her friendship with Kreuk. “We went to Paris multiple times together and just shopped and saw art and sat on the top of the Pompidou and had rosé and lived this kind of dream.”
Mack continued, “We both were at the point where we were 25, we were in New York City together, it was our break. And we rented an apartment in the same building in the West Village and we both were like, ‘Why do we feel so unsatisfied?'”
The actress explained that while she and Kreuk were happy in life with their “beautiful boyfriends” and more, they both couldn’t shake “this weird ennui that we felt.”
“I was like, ‘I feel this odd emptiness, and it feels so wrong given the nature of my life,’” Mack recalled telling Kreuk. “And she was like, ‘Yeah, me too.’”
Kreuk eventually took a course with Nxivm while they were in Vancouver filming “Smallville,” Mack claimed.
‘”It’s the science of joy. It’s the most amazing thing,'” Mack recalled Kreuk telling her. ‘It’s made everything so much better in my life. You’ve got to do this.'”
“It was all she could talk about,” Mack added of her co-star. “She was super excited about it.”
Kreuk also allegedly raved about NXIVM founder Keith Raniere and co-founder Nancy Salzman after she took the course, leading her to invite Mack to a retreat.
‘”They’re doing a weekend and I think you should do it. I think you’d really like it,’” Allison said Kreuk told her. “And I was like, ‘OK, if you think I should do it and I’ll like it, I’ll do it.”
The Post has reached out to Kreuk’s rep for comment.
Kreuk previously denied she was involved in criminal activities with Nxivm.
“When I was about 23, I took an Executive Success Programs/NXIVM ‘intensive,’ what I understood to be a self-help/personal growth course that helped me handle my previous shyness, which is why I continued with the program,” she wrote in a social media statement in 2018. “I left about five years ago and had minimal contact with those who were still involved.”
“The accusations that I was in the ‘inner circle’ or recruited women as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false,” the “Murder in a Small Town” star added. “During my time, I never experienced any illegal or nefarious activity. I am horrified and disgusted by what has come out about DOS.”
Nxivm, based in Albany, New York, attracted thousands of followers and several other celebrities with its promises of empowerment and self-improvement.
But according to prosecutors, Raniere secretly created a secret subgroup within Nxivm known as DOS (Dominus Obsequious Sororium or “master over slave”) where women were branded with his initials, starved, blackmailed with “collateral” such as nude photos or embarrassing personal information and coerced into sex.
Mack, who served as a high-ranking “master” in DOS, was accused of recruiting, overseeing and brainwashing women in the group.
In 2019, Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. She was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021, but was released early in 2023.
During her sentencing, Mack apologized to the women she helped recruit, calling her involvement “the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life.”
Raniere, for his part, is serving 120 years in prison for masterminding the sex cult.
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