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Sex cult cutie and former Battlestar Gallactica star Nicki Clyne — who is married to ex-Smallville star Allison Mack — is defending NXIVM and claims she wouldn’t change things “for anything.”
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“It’s very unfortunate the way that the word ‘NXIVM’ has been applied and is now synonymous with the term ‘sexual cult,’ which I don’t even know how to define what that is,” Clyne told CBS This Morning.
Battlestar Gallactica star Nicki Clyne defends NXIVM sex cultBack to video
Clyne appeared with four other NXIVM members on the show.
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The former actress even quit her job on Battlestar Gallactica to follow cult leader Keith Raniere, who is now facing life in prison.
On Wednesday, one of his top supporters, Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman, was sentenced to nearly seven years in jail for a number of fraud and immigration-related crimes.
Clyne and co. filed a petition with Brooklyn federal prosecutors demanding they answer their questions about alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the probe against the cult’s Svengali, Raniere.
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He was convicted on a slew of charges in 2019, including sex trafficking. He will be sentenced Oct. 27 and faces life in prison.
Clyne confessed to being part of the inner circle of sex slaves, known as DOS, but defended the actions of the group, which included branding sex slaves with Mack’s and Raniere’s initials.
“We’re not denying that certain things took place,” Clyne told the morning gabfest.
“There’s evidence that certain things happened. How they happened, why they happened and why certain people chose them — that’s a whole other conversation.”
In the new HBO docu-series about NXIVM, ‘The Vow,’ the Canadian-born Clyne is seen in some of the scenes.
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Mack has pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges, including extortion and forced labour. She admitted she ordered women in the group to “perform services for me.”
The onetime starlet also said DOS was “designed to make them think they could suffer serious harm” if they refused to do what they were asked. The cult held nude photos and deeply personal confessions over the women’s heads.
Mack is also awaiting sentencing. She and Clyne have not spoke in a year.
“Part of the conditions of her bail is that she can’t speak to anyone who is affiliated in any way with the case or NXIVM,” Clyne said. “This has been the hardest, most humbling experience of my life.”
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