Allison Mack joined NXIVM to become a ' actressfantastic again'

An uncovered interview with Allison Mack is making headlines because the Smallville celeb opened up more about why she joined NXIVM.

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In 2021, Mack was sentenced to three years in prison for her role

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in Keith Raniere's criminal organization, which has been called a "sex cult."

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Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis spoke with Mack and Raniere in 2017, weeks before they were charged with sex trafficking

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extortion and other crimes. In her new podcast Notorious: Internal the Us's Mayor Scandals

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Grigoriadis conducts for the first time the interviews that have been conducted at NXIVM's secret hideout in Mexico.

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"I moved to Albany to fill that void and find my soul once more, if that makes sense, since he was gone,"

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Mack says in an excerpt obtained through Page Six. (NXIVM's headquarters were located there in New York.)

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