S1 Ep45: NXIVM’s Own Starlet: The Wayward Story of Allison Mack

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.0 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Allison Mack set off on her acting career at a young age, playing dorks, "plain Janes" and other blonde-haired, girl-next-door types across the ‘90s and early aughts. But when a crisis of confidence presented a fork in her road, Mack veered down a dark path of sex-trafficking, conspiracy and a whole lot of interpersonal manipulation. How did it all happen? We trace the story in this episode.

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0:24.2	Right now, as I speak these words,
0:27.0	a former TV actor whose star was on the rise just a few years ago
0:31.7	sits in a federal prison serving the first few months of a three-year sentence.
0:37.1	How did she go from a darling of the CW network to a sex trafficker behind bars?
0:42.8	How does someone with seemingly so much potential, an impressive resume,
0:47.4	a loving family and friends, fall so far from grace and so deeply into a cult?
0:55.4	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:58.5	I'm a writer and an actor who likes to think they're impervious to brainwashing.
1:03.2	Then again, I did get roped into the bachelor at,
1:06.6	but honestly, have you tried it?
1:08.7	If you haven't, you really need to.
1:11.5	Anyway, this week, when a celebrity gets arrested,
1:15.0	it's usually for something non-violent, a DUI, financial fraud, tax evasion,
1:20.3	solicitation of a sex worker.
1:22.4	But Alice and Max offenses were like something out of a bad horror movie,
1:26.7	or several true crime documentaries about the cult nexion.
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