Smallville Alum Allison Mack Speaks Out for the First Time After Prison Release for Role in NXIVM Sex Cult: 'I Don't See Myself as Innocent' By Madison E. Goldberg

Smallville alum Allison Mack is speaking out for the first time since her 2023 release from prison.

Mack, 43, gave her first interview since her time in prison on the podcast Allison After NXIVM produced by CBC’s Uncover, which premiered on Monday, Nov. 10. In the interview, Mack recounted the day of her sentencing in New York City in 2021.

“Oh, my God, my poor brother behind me, having to hear this about his sister,” she said, her voice shaking. “My poor mom. I’m so sorry, you guys. I can take it, but like fuck, you guys, I’m so sorry. I don’t see myself as innocent, and they were.”

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The former actress then recalled the judge saying that he felt she was “callous” at her sentencing for having “laughed at people’s pain and led people in negative directions.”

When asked if she felt that she capitalized on her fame amid her involvement in NXIVM and her trial, Mack said, “I think that I capitalized on the things I had — and so the success I had as an actor, I think I did capitalize on that.”

Mack went on to say she thinks she was “very effective in moving Keith’s vision forward” when asked if she felt she was an accomplice.

Authorities first arrested Mack on April 20, 2018, when she was accused of recruiting sex slaves for Keith Raniere, who co-founded the controversial self-help group Nxivm and its subgroup, DOS, which has been described as an all-female secret society in which women allegedly were forced to be sexually subservient to Raniere, 65.

Mack was sentenced to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering and conspiracy for her role as a prominent leader within NXIVM, the now-dismantled, Raniere-led cult.

Raniere was convicted for his involvement in NXIVM, which authorities called a “sexual pyramid scheme,” in 2019. He is currently serving a 120-year sentence for sex trafficking, racketeering, fraud and other crimes.

Mack served her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California and was released in 2023 via a Donald Trump-era law called the First Step Act (FSA), which allows for federal inmates to earn up to 54 days of “good conduct” credit for every year of their imposed sentence.

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In 2020, Mack filed for divorce from her wife Nicki Clyne in Orange County, California, according to TMZ. She was married to the Battlestar Galactica actress, 42, since 2017. The marriage was conducted at the behest of Nxivm co-founder Raniere, NXIVM’s one-time publicist told PEOPLE at the time of the wedding. 

In June, Mack wed a man named Frank in Los Angeles, according to TMZ. The outlet reported that the pair met soon after her release from prison in 2023 at a dog park in L.A. and got engaged sometime around Christmas in 2024.