Screen Rant lists 16 ‘dark secrets’ about Smallville; topping list ‘Allison Mack in a cult’

16 Secrets Behind Smallville You Had No Idea About

Screen Rant list 16 dark secrets about the TV show Smallville.

Topping the list as the darkest secret is

1. ALLISON MACK’S INVOLVEMENT WITH A CULT

Last month, the New York Times published a scandalous report on an Albany, NY based self-help group called NXIVM.  Rolling Stone reported there were interviews with “various women claiming they’d been branded, starved, held as “slaves” and blackmailed into providing naked pictures to prevent them from leaving or speaking out.” However, the strangest part of the story was its connections to the cast of Smallville.

Allegedly, actress Allison Mack has been serving as co-leader of this cult. According to The Sun, Mack “to recruit ‘slaves’ into a secretive cult where they are forcibly branded with her initials and ordered to follow her commands 24 hours a day.” She has even been said to have recruited 25 women into the cult since her time with them. No word has been received from Mack or her agency to dispute these allegations.

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Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist.

His work has been cited in hundreds of news outlets, like The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Sun, The Times of London, CBS Inside Edition, among many others in all five continents.

His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, “Scarred” by Sarah Edmonson, “The Program” by Toni Natalie, and “NXIVM. La Secta Que Sedujo al Poder en México” by Juan Alberto Vasquez.

Parlato has been prominently featured on HBO’s docuseries “The Vow” and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discovery’s “The Lost Women of NXIVM.” He also appeared in "Branded and Brainwashed: Inside NXIVM, and was credited in the Starz docuseries "Seduced" for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS.

Additionally, Parlato’s coverage of the group OneTaste, starting in 2018, helped spark an FBI investigation, which led to indictments of two of its leaders in 2023.

Parlato appeared on the Nancy Grace Show, Beyond the Headlines with Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Oz, American Greed, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, where Parlato conducted the first-ever interview with Keith Raniere after his arrest. This was ironic, as many credit Parlato as one of the primary architects of his arrest and the cratering of the cult he founded.

Parlato is a consulting producer and appears in TNT's The Heiress and the Sex Cult, which premieres on May 22, 2022.

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