After a decade on the TV drama Smallville —and years of cable news and documentary stories about her abusive role in the destructive cult NXIVM— Allison Mack doesn’t want to be on camera anymore. Instead, she’s telling her own story for the first time through a podcast.

Mack was released from federal prison in July 2023 after serving nearly two years for her role in NXIVM. A year later, she reached out to Vanity Fair ’s Vanessa Grigoriadis, to whom Mack had spoken back in 2017, before the arrest of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. (In that initial interview , Mack claimed the branding ceremony was her idea, but a recorded conversation between Mack and Raniere introduced in court revealed that Raniere had masterminded the ritual.)

Grigoriadis asked her longtime and award-winning

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