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Aaron Ashmore played Allison Mack‘with love Smallville For three years – but did he know anything about her involvement in the sexual cult?
“She was beautiful. She was very welcome and invited,” Ashmore remembered 45 years old Jimmy Olsen remembered his former costume on Tuesday, March 25, episode Podcast “Inside You”. “And even her friend.” Chad (Krowchuk)They invited me to go hikes and stuff. She was cool and she’s a very, very good actor. ”
Ashmore appreciated Mack, 42 years old Be a partner of a “solid” sceneHe adds, “It brings a lot to the character. And it was great to have a chance to work with her because it really made it easier.”
Podcast host Michael Rosenbaum, who played on Smallville as Lex Luthor, turned the conversation on Mackov’s controversy – specifically her prison time in connection with NXIVM.
Before there was Arrowverse, there was Smallville. The series, which ran 10 seasons on WB and CW, was followed by adolescent Clark Kent (Tom Welling) in his early days as a child living farms living with his adoptive parents Martha (Annette O’Toole) and Jonathan Kent (John Schneider). In addition to the development of their abilities (…)
“I remember some of the girls on the scene – (including) some guest stars – came back and all would hang together. Maybe some of those things, but I really didn’t hear about it,” explained Ashmore Mack’s connection with the cult of sex. “I went to a lot of reading scripts that Allison and her friends organized. Maybe it was some of it (that), but (I didn’t know).”
Ashmore said his jaw “was on the floor” when Mack The legal problems have come to light. “I knew Alison really well in those three years,” he said. “We worked together and nothing in her personality would lead me to believe that some of this was possible. It looked like an alternative reality.”
In 2018, Mack was arrested for allegedly hiring women in a group for trading people in order to become sex slaves for their leader, Keith RaniereIn addition to fraud with identity and money washing. “The victims were then used sexually and for their work in favor of the defendants,” the US lawyer Richard P. Donoghue He said at that time in a statement.
Allison Mack, Aaron Ashmore in “Smallville”. Warner Brothers Television / Countery Everett Collection
The court documents obtained Us every week revealed that Mack – which is best known for playing Chloe Smallville From 2001 to 2011 – hired women to nxivm describing it as a “group to strengthen the position of women or sorority”. Upon connection, the members were forced to “provide (NXIVM) naked photographs, assets, criminal returns and other harmful information known as collateral”.
The documents also stated that Mack “would make ceremonies in which her slaves were marked” with Raniere’s initials. At that time, Mack was released on bail of $ 5 million and sentenced to arrest. In 2019, she changed her innocent action to blame from plot and blackmail after the co -founder of NXIVM, Nancy Salzmanand her daughter, Lauren SalzmanThey both confessed to the conspiracy fees for endure a month before.
Meanwhile, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years behind bars after he was convicted of seven accusations of severe crimes related to trading in children, conspiracy and conspiracy for committed work. Said NBC News At a time when he was “innocent” of his crimes.
Mack We apologize to the victims of NXIVM In a statement 2021 OurShe admitted that “she had committed severe crimes,” and added, “I entered the teachings of Keith Raniere with everything I had. I believed, with all my heart that his mentorhood led me to a better, enlightening version of myself.
Mack was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2021. In September 2021, she initiated her imprisonment before she secured early release in July 2023.
