Former Smallville actress Allison Mack is confronting the most disturbing chapters of her life through her revealing podcast, Allison After NXIVM, where she's peeling back layers of manipulation and psychological control she experienced within the notorious sex cult.
The Transactional Marriage That Devastated Her Mother
In episode three of her podcast, the 43-year-old disgraced star addressed one of the most troubling aspects of her time with NXIVM: her 2017 marriage to fellow cult member and Battlestar Galactica actress Nicki Clyne. Mack confessed that what many perceived as a romantic union was actually a transaction born from desperation and psychological manipulation.
'Nicki was another one who didn't really like me very much. I was too much for her,' Mack revealed candidly. 'She didn't like how performative I was, and didn't like how outgoing I was, and loud I was, and sort of boisterous and gregarious and stuff.'
Host Natalie Robehmed noted that both women had been 'frontline DOS slaves' who were sleeping with cult leader Keith Raniere. Mack responded bluntly: 'We were like sister wives, essentially. Even if that's not what I initially thought it was, that was ultimately what it ended up being.'
A Marriage of Convenience and Control
When Clyne faced deportation issues, Mack agreed to marry her not out of love, but as a warped attempt to win approval within the cult. 'I already know I'm not going to marry somebody else. What's the difference? We're basically married anyway. So why not?' Mack recalled thinking at the time.
The ceremony itself was disturbingly casual. 'Her mom and her and I went to a Justice of the Peace, the courthouse in L.A. somewhere, I think, and her mom was there to witness it,' Mack remembered.
Meanwhile, Mack's own mother, Mindy, was left heartbroken by the secret union. 'I was hurt that she didn't trust me,' Mindy admitted during the same episode. 'I think it's because she knew that I would say, "What the hell are you doing?" Because it was Keith's idea, of course.'
New Beginnings With Reformed Neo-Nazi
After Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy in 2020, she filed for divorce from Clyne. Now, following her release from prison, Mack's personal life has taken another unexpected turn.
In her podcast's seventh episode, she revealed that she quietly married Frank Meeink, a reformed neo-Nazi and convicted felon who once served prison time for assault and kidnapping. According to Us Weekly, the couple wed in an 'intimate backyard ceremony' in June 2025.
Meeink has transformed his life dramatically, becoming a well-known advocate for civil rights and anti-extremism. He even testified before a U.S. House subcommittee in 2020 about white supremacy in policing. 'In some ways, Frank is a poster boy for changing your mind,' Robehmed noted. 'He now works at a nonprofit with unhoused people and connects them to resources.'
The couple met at a Los Angeles dog park in February 2024, nearly a year after Mack's prison release. Both were drawn to each other's stories of survival and second chances. After just one date, Mack told Meeink everything about NXIVM, and his empathetic response stunned her.
'I just looked at her and said, "You know, I'm a former neo-Nazi who used to kidnap people. Do you think I have any room to judge you? … No, I don't judge you at all,"' Meeink recalled. He continued, 'People don't understand what it's like when you get stuck in something like that. And it's the one thing that validates you. It's hard to get out.'
