Smallville’s Allison Mack Launching Podcast About Falling Into NXIVM Cult After Prison Release

Mack first became involved with NXIVM in 2006 after attending a two-day introduction to a women’s group called “Jness,” before eventually rising to second-in-command of DOS in 2015, the so-called “female empowerment” sub-sect that was primarily a method for trafficking women for founder and leader Keith Raniere.

DOS was designed as a pyramid of female slaves reporting to Raniere at the top. The women were told the brand represented the four elements, but it was actually Raniere’s initials. Meanwhile DOS stood for Dominus Obsequious Sororium, which one member reportedly said meant “master over slave women,” per The Daily Beast at the time.

For her part, Mack pleaded guilty in 2019 to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy for allegedly helping to recruit women into the cult, including some who were branded with founder Keith Raniere’s initials, and gathering blackmail “collateral” to help keep them complicit. She was sentenced to three years and served 21 months until her release in July 2023.

While the story of how Mack was lured into the group and her eventual transformation into one of its key figures has been covered in the media and on HBO’s docuseries The Vow across two seasons from 2020 to 2022, Mack is ready to take full ownership of her story in a new podcast series with the Canadian Broadcast Company.

Launching November 4, Uncover: Allison After NXIVM is promising to explore Mack’s life before and after her time wrapped up in the cult, doing so with the help of interviews with people who knew her both before, during, and after her involvement.

It will mark the first time the actress have ever spoken herself about her experiences, with a press release from the CBC promising she will dive “deep into the gray zones of influence, accountability and redemption.”

Could that include high profile women she purportedly attempted to recruit into NXIVM, including Smallville co-star Laura Vandervoort, as well as 7th Heaven’s Beverly Mitchell, Emma Watson, and others. She did successfully recruit Dynasty Star India Oxenberg’s daughter Catherine Oxenberg, who would go on to produce the Lifetime television film Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter.

Uncover: Allison After NXIVM is set to launch on November 10. In the meantime, you can read more about Mack’s involvement with NXIVM below.