SMALLVILLE Star Allison Mack Shares Regrets For NXIVM Sex Cult Crimes Prior To Being Sentenced

SMALLVILLE Star Allison Mack Shares Regrets For NXIVM Sex Cult Crimes Prior To Being Sentenced

Allison Mack has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and other crimes related to the NXIVM cult led by Keith Raniere, but prior to being sentenced, the Smallville alum shared a lengthy apology...

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By JoshWilding - Jun 28, 2021 04:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Smallville
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Allison Mack only took on a handful of projects following her decade-long stint in Smallville, and we'd later learn she was busy being embroiled in a sex cult known as NXIVM. 

Arrested by the FBI in 2018, Mack pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labour conspiracy. Accusations of money laundering and identity fraud followed, while charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy were also added. Now, the actress - who played Clark Kent's best friend Chloe Sullivan - is going to be sentenced on Wednesday, June 30.

Prior to that, she was given the opportunity to express her regrets for the role she played in NXIVM, and Mack issued a lengthy apology (likely in the hope it will reduce her sentence). 

"This was the biggest mistake and regret of my life," she said in an excerpt shared by The Hollywood Reporter. "I am sorry to those of you that I brought into Nxivm. I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man. I am sorry that I encouraged you to use your resources to participate in something that was ultimately so ugly. I do not take lightly the responsibility I have in the lives of those I love and I feel a heavy weight of guilt for having misused your trust, leading you down a negative path."

Raniere has been found guilty on charges of sex trafficking, conspiracy and possession of child pornography, while Mack is alleged to have been tasked with recruiting his "sex slaves." A number of former victims have talked about being branded with his initials and forced to engage in sex acts against their will, so chances are the Smallville alum is facing serious jail time. 

Needless to say, we're not expecting Chloe to return in Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum's planned Smallville follow-up that will take the form of an animated series if and when it happens. 

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GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/28/2021, 4:39 AM
Psycho
Tensorpants
Tensorpants - 6/28/2021, 6:19 AM
Easy to be remorseful when you're caught.
gordonh7
gordonh7 - 6/28/2021, 7:59 AM
@Tensorpants - I was thinking the same thing. She showed no remorse till she was caught.
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 6/28/2021, 9:48 AM
@BlackBeltJones - I keep thinking she probably would have found a place in the Arrowverse or the new Superman and Lois show as some multiverse version of some character if she hadn't fallen into this nonsense. Too bad she didn't just hold out a bit longer instead of joining a cult.
LSHF
LSHF - 6/28/2021, 4:30 PM
@Tensorpants - She's "sorry" she got caught!
bcom
bcom - 6/29/2021, 2:54 PM
@Tensorpants - Yeah. Whenever I hear or see an apology from someone AFTER they've been caught you just know its a hollow apology.
Repian
Repian - 6/28/2021, 4:40 AM
She has been charged and tried. So now she says she's sorry. Don't make me laugh, stupid.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 6/28/2021, 5:42 AM
@Repian - She probably said it before let's be real. I have no trouble believing anybody in her position would be sorry.
Humperdink
Humperdink - 6/28/2021, 6:14 AM
@Nightwing1015 -

She probably said it before let's be real.


Before being caught or being sentenced?

Most criminals are vocally sorry when it's time to receive a prison term and I'm sure Clare Bronfman (Seagram’s liquor fortune heir) getting six years was VERY sobering. Especially since Allison Mack was considered Keith Raniere's right-hand man. 😵‍💫

But yeah, I'm definitely sure she's sorry right now, just not while she was recruiting, branding, blackmailing, extorting and sex-slaving.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 6/28/2021, 6:39 AM
@Humperdink - Before being sentenced is what I meant.

I often take criminals at their word when they say they are sorry for what they did. I have no reason to believe that any human being wouldn't be at least partially sorry after doing evil shit like this. But to me, it doesn't really matter how sorry they are or if they regret it. It doesn't change the fact that they're guilty.
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 6/28/2021, 7:00 AM
@Nightwing1015 - I'm not disagreeing with your points, but her statement feels like it was written for her and she's rehearsed it more times than she did her lines for Smallville.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 6/28/2021, 7:14 AM
@LiteraryJoe - Fair enough, I wonder if there's footage of her saying it seeing as it's a US trial of a former celebrity.
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 6/28/2021, 7:44 AM
@Nightwing1015 - That's a solid point. Probably will see some surface in the next week or so.
LSHF
LSHF - 6/28/2021, 4:31 PM
@LiteraryJoe - "..her statement feels like it was written for her .."

That's what attorneys are there for.
tugboy
tugboy - 6/28/2021, 4:48 AM
It was clear that this was Chloe's future.
JohnCastillo
JohnCastillo - 6/28/2021, 4:50 AM
Regret? A regret is swearing at someone and regretting it. Not recruiting sex slaves for a maniac over and over again.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/28/2021, 4:52 AM
She was involved in a what now?
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/28/2021, 5:31 AM
@Waddles - man, some cults are [frick]ed up. Kinda sounds like a pyramid scheme she also got roped into (although she's still guilty, like she pleaded)
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 6/28/2021, 6:58 AM
@bkmeijer - Kristen Kreuk (Lana) was also involved but she ended up distancing herself from it and I guess that makes it okay? I don't know all the details, I just know that she was involved in a smaller capacity.

Prolly dipped when it was her turn to be branded.

Like her character arc after Season 6 OOOOOOHHHHHH AAAAHHHHHH
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 6/28/2021, 6:59 AM
@LiteraryJoe @bkmeijer -

Look, idk. It's really early here.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/28/2021, 7:16 AM
@LiteraryJoe - gottem

Okay you may play it like a joke, but I do think it would've been at a point like that that made here realize this cult is kinda [frick]ed up.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 6/28/2021, 7:24 AM
@LiteraryJoe - I watched the documentary. The dude was a con man who got a lot of people to trust him and was a master manipulator. He took deeply troubled and hurting people and used actual legitimate therapeutic and psychological techniques used by valid professionals and (evil) geniusly twisted those techniques to trick people into thinking he was onto something special. The dude is a legit genius level intellect, he's just also a [frick]ing pedophile rapist psycho.

Kristen Kreuk got involved on a surface level and still left. She never got to the level of brandings or anything like that.

Also, it's important to note that only a section of these branding people were active. It wasn't the entire organization and most NXIVM members were disgusted when the cover was pulled back to show what the Cult really was.

It's important to paint these people in a proper light. There are a tremendous amount of victims, and a majority of them were people who joined because they were hopeless and lost.
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 6/28/2021, 7:50 AM
@ElricReturns @waddles - I actually did too, but I have poor memory. I was joking about the branding.

Yeah, she was only marginally involved, and I'm sure it took that much before she realized it was shady.

I doubt Mack asked her if she wanted to check out a set cult, she was definitely taken off guard, lol.

Also, the events that took place are horrid, and I'm glad she's getting time. I was sickened when I learned a few years back, and I hate to say it, but it's one of the reasons I haven't re-visited Smallville. The idea that some royalties might go to her has burrowed into my head, however unrealistic it may be.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 6/28/2021, 8:23 AM
@Waddles - @LiteraryJoe - Kristen Kreuk did get involved and she's on Michael Rosenbaum's podcast talking about it. She said they positioned it as a women's support group. Or something to that effect. Then they slowly start bringing you into the sexual corner of the group saying it's part of the personal growth process. So people that join it and go to initial meetings don't even know they're joining this kind of organization. She basically bailed when she noticed things were getting weird.
Odin
Odin - 6/28/2021, 4:56 AM
An apology coming at this point of the events makes it kind of seem like she is sorry that she was caught and is facing ramifications of her actions, rather than her being actually sorry for what she did.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 6/28/2021, 7:59 AM
@Odin - especially her wording. I wonder whi wrote this, I'm inclined to believe she wrote it herself because while she takes accountability, her wording is "I'm sorry I let YOU..." or "I'm sorry for allowing THIS EVIL MAN to...", total responsibility deflection. She's acknowledging her part, while spotlighting something more evil than her to displace the blame off her entirely, in her own apology.

Gross.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 6/28/2021, 8:33 AM
@Odin - Yeah I think the nature of criminals not being sorry unless / until they get caught can be examined from a couple perspectives. On one hand, we can surmise they'd still be committing their crimes if they didn't get caught so the remorse is only circumstantial and conditional. However, I think it can also be a matter of the person not truly realizing the severity of their crimes until the punishment process walks you thru every minutia of detail as to WHY what you did was wrong and to what degree.

This is certainly not to say I think she deserves a lesser punishment or any sympathy. What she allowed herself to do is just plain evil. I just think the psychology of a criminal reconciling the impact of their crimes is deep rooted.
LSHF
LSHF - 6/28/2021, 4:32 PM
@Odin - This is the sort of apology that lawyers recommend to their clients (I'm assuming she has a lawyer).
Thing94
Thing94 - 6/28/2021, 5:10 AM
What's her sentence? That's what I want to hear. Sex trafficking and slavery is abhorrent.
Mugens
Mugens - 6/29/2021, 12:59 PM
@Waddles - Doubt if she gets that much because she knew her shit was toast and started cooperating with the prosecution and gave them some real good evidence to use against the cult's leader.
Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 6/28/2021, 5:17 AM
Too little, too late mother[frick]er!

Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 6/28/2021, 5:17 AM
Speaking of regret like she got caught lying on her taxes. Women’s a top grade monster.
gordonh7
gordonh7 - 6/28/2021, 8:04 AM
@Twenty23Three - Yeah even the Joker wouldn't do that. That is evil.
Matador
Matador - 6/28/2021, 5:17 AM
Orange is the New Mack: The Prison Bitch Chronicles
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/28/2021, 5:20 AM
The dude was ugly too yikes lol
bobbo68
bobbo68 - 6/28/2021, 5:27 AM
Never liked Chloe on Smallville she was always annoying and in the way. Now in real life she’s sorry after being sentenced and facing jail sorry sister but no forgiveness from here.
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