- “I moved to Albany to fill that emptiness and find the soul of myself again, if that makes sense, as it had fizzled,” Mack said of her move to the NXIVM headquarters. She went on to explain that she had even asked the cult’s co-founder Keith Raniere whether he could help her to reinvent her career.
- “I asked Keith if he would help me become a great actress again because I felt like I was a fraud,” she said.
- Initially billed as a self-help group, NXIVM was created in 1998 by Raniere, 62, and Nancy Salzman, 68 — but things began to go south when former members began to tell stories about being branded with Raniere’s initials and about younger female members being recruited and forced to sleep with him.
