Allison Mack says it was her Smallville co-star, Kristin Kreuk, who first brought her into the world of NXIVM — the so-called self-improvement group later exposed as a sex cult.
Speaking on her new podcast, Allison After NXIVM, the actress recalled how the pair, then riding high from Smallville’s success, found themselves drifting through a kind of post-fame malaise. “We both had this weird ennui,” Mack said. “We’d travel, go to Paris, sit on the roof of the Pompidou with rosé — and still feel empty.”
After returning to Vancouver, Kreuk told Mack she’d found something that made everything click. “She said it was ‘the science of joy,’” Mack recalled. “She was so excited about it. It was all she could talk about.”
NXIVM, founded by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman, marketed itself as a self-help organization built around personal growth and empowerment. Inside, it was something else entirely — a network of coercion, control, and abuse dressed up as enlightenment.
Mack says Kreuk invited her to one of the women’s weekends run by “Keith’s Creative,” a subgroup within NXIVM. “Kristin told me, ‘I think you’d really like it,’” Mack said. “So I did it.”
What followed is now well-documented. Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and related charges for her role in NXIVM’s inner operations. Sentenced to three years in prison, she served 21 months before being released in July 2023.
Kreuk has acknowledged attending early NXIVM programs but denied being part of Raniere or Salzman’s inner circle, calling such claims “blatantly false.”
Raniere is serving a 120-year sentence after being convicted in 2020 on charges including sex trafficking, racketeering, and forced labor conspiracy. Salzman, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, was sentenced to 42 months and released in 2024.
Mack’s reflection marks a new chapter — a reckoning from someone who once stood at the heart of a Hollywood scandal that blurred the line between ambition and indoctrination.
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Last modified: November 12, 2025
