**Allison Mack Addresses Her Role in NXIVM in New Podcast Series**
Allison Mack is speaking openly about “the bad things she’s done” as a high-profile member of the notorious “sex cult” NXIVM in a new podcast series. Released Monday, *Allison After NXIVM* is a seven-episode series featuring the former *Smallville* star as she details her journey—from a young actor to her involvement in the self-improvement group, her role in manipulating women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, and the eventual criminal consequences.
In an early episode, Mack candidly states, “I don’t see myself as innocent,” acknowledging that she used her success as an actor as “a power tool to get people to do what I wanted.” She admits she was “very effective in moving Keith’s vision forward.” Later in the series, she accepts that she was a “harsh monster” during her time with NXIVM.
“I was not kind and I was aggressive and I was abusive,” Mack reflects. “I was harsh and I was callous and I was aggressive and forceful in ways that were painful for people. [I] did make people feel like they had no choice and was incredibly abusive to people, traumatic for people.”
In 2019, Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to her role in NXIVM and its subgroup DOS—a so-called “secret society” of women who were branded with Raniere’s initials and forced to have sex with him. Mack was one of the “masters” in the group, acting as a lieutenant tasked by Raniere with recruiting and coercing other women.
She was sentenced to three years in federal prison in 2021 and was released in 2023. Meanwhile, Raniere is currently serving a 120-year sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking and other charges.
While Mack acknowledges that “100% all those allegations are true,” she also insists that she is “someone who cares deeply and wanted very much to grow and wanted very much for everybody that I was involved with to grow. [B]oth of those things are true about me.”
She continues, “I definitely recognize and admit that I was abusing my power. But I also can’t negate the fact that there was a part of me that was altruistic and was desperate to help people. [I] wanted to be better, and I was willing to do anything to be better in myself and to help other people be better.”
The podcast series also explores what Mack has been doing since her release from prison. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in social work and is considering PhD programs in expressive arts therapy. Additionally, she is working with a nonprofit organization that brings creative arts such as music, theater, and poetry to prisons.
Over the summer, Mack married Frank Meeink, a prominent former neo-Nazi who now advocates for racial diversity and acceptance. The couple met at a dog park shortly after Mack’s release in 2023.
According to the podcast host, Natalie Robehmed, Mack now goes by Allison Meeink.
Robehmed also shares that *Allison After NXIVM* is the latest installment of the true crime podcast *Uncover* and was developed after Mack reached out to journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis following her release from prison, hoping to share her story for the first time. Grigoriadis, who serves as an executive producer on the series, previously interviewed Mack before her arrest.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-11-10/allison-mack-smallville-nxivm-sex-cult-podcast