Allison Mack, the former 'Smallville' actress and convicted NXIVM sex cult member, is out of prison
Allison Mack, former "Smallville" actress and convicted NXIVM cult member, was released from prison Monday.
Mack was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 but was released after two.
She pleaded guilty to racketeering charges for her role in the sex cult in 2019.
Former "Smallville" actress and convicted NXIVM sex cult member Allison Mack was released from prison Monday, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Mack, 40, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after she was convicted of recruiting women to the NXIVM sex cult to act as sex slaves for the cult's leader, Keith Raniere.
She was first arrested for her role in the cult in 2018 and pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering in April 2019.
A representative for Mack didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
In a letter to NXIVM survivors written days before her sentencing, Mack called her role in the cult her "greatest regret."
"It is now of paramount importance for me to say, from the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry," Mack, 38, wrote at the time.
NXIVM was marketed as a self-help group but was in fact much darker.
During Raniere's sentencing, victims called the cult leader a "monster," "parasite," and "terrorist" who psychologically and physically manipulated followers.
One victim, who went only by the name Camila, said Raniere forced her into a sexual relationship when she was 15 and that it lasted until she was 27, court documents obtained by Insider showed.
Mack found women for a group within NXIVM that recruited sex slaves for Raniere. At one court hearing before her sentencing, Mack said she obtained compromising information and photos of two women, then threatened to share the blackmail if they didn't perform "so-called acts of love."
Members had testified in court that they were brainwashed, exploited, and branded with Raniere's initials.
Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison for his role in the cult and continued to run it from behind bars; followers have, on occasion, surrounded the Brooklyn prison and danced in his honor.
Sarah Edmondson, a survivor of the NXIVM cult, spoke with Insider about Mack's release on Monday.
"I am happy to know that Allison can get her life back and wishing her and her family well on their healing journey," Edmondson said.
The former NXIVM member told Insider in 2021 that she thought Mack received an appropriate sentence for her role in the group. Edmondson said that unlike Raniere, Mack apologized for her actions.
Mack, whose earliest acting roles date back to the late '80s and early '90s, is perhaps best known for her work on the TV show "Smallville."
The series, centered on Tom Welling's Clark Kent/Superman, ran for 10 seasons on The CW (then known as The WB) between 2001 and 2011. Mack starred as Chloe Sullivan, one of Clark's friends. Mack also starred in two "Smallville" miniseries focused on her character.
In the years after "Smallville," Mack had an arc on the FX series "Wilfred," guest-starred on the Fox show "The Following," and had a recurring role on the action series "American Odyssey." Mack's most recent role was voicing an animated character on the Amazon Studios TV show "Lost in Oz" in 2016.
July 5, 2023: This story has been updated to include a comment from Edmondson.
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