The Hollywood Sex Cult
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What led Allison Mack to join NXIVM?
Do you remember that show Smallville? Well this Smallville actress got involved in a cult and she apparently tried to pull Emma Watson into it as well. Now the woman's name is Allison. She's 18 during this time. She's an actress and she's been on the Hollywood grind for over a decade. She was in Camp Nowhere. She was in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. She was in Seventh Heaven. But one day in 2001, her whole life changes because she gets cast in this new show called Smallville about a young Superman, and Allison plays his sidekick. And this role is great for her, and she's really good in it. But despite this success, she can't help but feel like there's something missing in her life. And that feeling is about to get her in a lot of trouble.
Now, Allison has a friend, this woman, Kristen. And Kristen is also an actor on Smallville. And Kristen apparently understands that Allison is feeling lost and she wants to help her out. So one day in 2006, she invites her to a meeting with a self-help group. which is part of a larger organization called Nexium. And so Allison is like, self-help. All right. And she decides to give it a shot. And so Allison goes to this group and this group ends up being straight up a cult. But Allison, she's naive. She doesn't know that. And so she meets a bunch of people there, including a few women who low-key want to recruit her into this cult real bad. And they want to recruit her because she's on TV. She's moderately famous. And having famous members always makes cults look more legit.
And so they tell her they can help her out and that joining them will solve all her problems and will advance her acting career and all this nonsense. One of them even flies Allison on a private jet to go and meet the founder of this self-help group. The founder is this guy, Keith. And Keith, he's a weird dude. But he's extremely smart. Or at least he claims he is. He claims he's some kind of genius. And he takes himself very seriously. He and the other members call him Vanguard and sh- But we're not gonna call him that because that's actually stupid. Anyway, so Allison's like, alright, maybe this guy can help me. And so she decides to join Keith and NXIVM. And from here, she gets sucked into the world of this cult.
And they give her a sense of community, and they promise to fix whatever's bothering her and help her acting career. And honestly, she feels pretty good about these people and about this place. And over the next few years, she gets more and more dedicated to NXIVM and to Keith. And Keith, he starts making extreme demands from her and the other members. Like he'll tell them to lick up a puddle of mud or run headfirst into a tree. And I guess the members will just like do it like, okay, here we go. He also teaches them bullshit like how women should be monogamous, but men are supposed to be polygamous, which just ends up being a sleazy way for him to get laid with multiple partners. Regardless, all of this conditioning works on Allison and she gets more and more isolated from the outside world and she starts losing friends outside the cult. And pretty quickly, her whole world revolves around Keith. In fact, it's rumored that she and Keith start smashing. And while that seems very likely, in my opinion, that isn't actually confirmed.
Now, by this point, it's 2011 and Smallville has wrapped, like the show's done. And Allison isn't really acting much anymore. All her time is completely invested in this cult. Like she's out here making recruitment videos for them.
And then that expanded out and out and out into the rest of my life. And now I have the most beautiful friendships.
And eventually, around 2015 or so, Keith lets Allison in on this big secret project he's doing called DOS, aka The Vow. And this is where the group members will have, and I'm not making this up, master-slave relationships. Specifically, I think they mostly mean sex slave, which is pretty much just a scheme that Keith comes up with so that he can surround himself with submissive women to smash with. So anyway, in this master-slave scenario, Keith himself is a master. But he also puts Allison in a master role so that she can go out and recruit slaves.
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