Fraud Week: Two Former NXIVM Members Speak Out on True Horrors of the Cult...And How They Got Out | Ep. 817

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Fraud Week continues with a focus on the NXIVM cult, featuring former cult members Sarah Edmondson and Anthony "Nippy" Ames, hosts of "A Little Bit Culty." They discuss how they first came to NXIVM, the oddities of the group, the positives they experienced at first, the importance of screening before allowing people and groups into your brain and heart, the charismatic NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, Raniere's lawyer who had a showdown with Megyn on her NBC show, the way Raniere and others in the group manipulated them, how fraudsters look to target certain kinds of people, the traumatic moment she was secretly branded with NXIVM cult leader Raniere's initials, when they decided they had to leave the cult, the brainwashing and sex trafficking happening in the NXIVM cult, the Hollywood family who took to the media to speak out on the cult, the vindication when Raniere finally went to jail, and more. Edmondson- https://www.instagram.com/sarahedmondson/ Ames- https://alittlebitculty.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on SeriousXM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly.
0:13.4	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and today's Fraud Week episode.
0:18.1	My guests today were searching for self-improvement
0:21.6	and a way to contribute to the good of society when they joined an
0:24.9	organization called Nexium. They found each other and got married, but they also found
0:31.5	utter darkness and depravity in one man's desire for ultimate power and
0:37.8	control over women.
0:41.2	Sarah Edmondson and her husband, Anthony Nippy Ames, are former members now of the cult called
0:47.0	Nexium and the hosts of the podcast, A Little Bit Cultty, and they join me now.
0:55.0	It's so nice to meet you Sarah.
0:57.0	Thank you for being here.
0:58.0	You as well Nippy.
0:59.0	Thank you so much for having us.
1:01.0	And thank you also for being such a proponent of antinexium from the beginning. We appreciate that.
1:06.4	Of course. I remember so clearly where I was when that New York Times article hit featuring you and a lengthy
1:16.3	article about you coming forward about what you'd been through and I had chills I just
1:21.6	couldn't believe it you You were so beautiful, you were accomplished, you were so raw about how you'd been sucked into this thing, and not for nothing, but it happened in my hometown of Albany, New York, which was just so strange to me.
1:36.0	Like Albany, you don't think of Albany as like, I don't know, it doesn't feel culty, right, to use your word.
1:43.2	It's like hardworking people.
1:44.8	It's kind of like the Midwest, you know,
1:46.2	I would think something like this would happen more in California.
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