Sarma Melngailis
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 Jan
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It's almost as if I think he might have gotten us arrested intentionally, which I know seems like it doesn't make any sense.
But my gut tells me that that's what happened because he said to me either the day before or even that morning, he said to me, there's going to be one more gut shot.
And I was terrified because I didn't know what he meant by that.
But it's as if he was telling me you're going to have to endure this.
one more really painful thing um before this is over and then boom you know we were arrested um you know which reminds me of speaking of things he made me endure there's a whole sexual abuse component of this story that they asked me about and i spoke about in my very long interviews for the for the series but they left it out which felt really strange to me i didn't understand it at first but i think had they left it in then the audience would have
Sympathize me with to the extent that they wouldn't have able to create sort of a twisty ending and cast doubt on whether or not I was complicit What was the nature of the alleged abuse?
Um, well, I think that you might have spoken to people in the NXIVM cult in the past yeah on your show and so a similar thing happened with Keith Ranieri and you know, they create this dynamic where
It's almost as if they make you believe that this sexual stuff is necessary and something that you have to endure for your own benefit.
It's really twisted and hard to explain, but I go into sort of grotesque detail in a chapter in my book about what he did.
Because, you know, I was so repulsed by this man.
This is another thing that people didn't understand and that didn't come through in the story is I was so repulsed by him.
The last thing in the world I want to do is have sex with this guy who, by the way... By which point?
I mean, it happened over time, but it was reasonably... You know, certainly when we got married, it wasn't like we were a married couple and having sex.
By that point, I'm sure I had stopped wanting to have sex with him, and I think that happened pretty quickly, but he... You know, so eventually it was something that he started to force me to do in a really disgusting, manipulative, cruel way, and it was...
um, you know, I mean, it was incredibly painful, but it's something that cult leaders do as well.
And I think it's another, it's like another, forgive me.
Yeah.
Well, um,
He basically told me that I had to do things.
I mean, there's a chapter in my book that goes into some gross detail about this where I come home, I'm exhausted working my ass off getting the restaurant reopened after it closed because of the actions that he put me through.
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