Nxivm Member Nicki Clyne Talks Life Today, Keith Raniere, and More (Exclusive)

Nxivm Member Nicki Clyne Talks Life Today, Keith Raniere, and More (Exclusive)

A fresh look at Nxivm Member Nicki Clyne Talks Life Today, Keith Raniere, and More (Exclusive), bringing you critical context.

Clyne may be known today as the (now-ex-) wife to another prominent NXIVM member and the highest ranking in the organization, Allison Mack. But she was first known for her role as Cally on Battlestar Galactica. She joined NXIVM at a time when she was struggling with public speaking, despite her success in acting, and she found that what she learned really helped her. She was even able to do stand-up comedy a couple of years later!

"I was able to build a beautiful relationship with my father who, before that, I did not have a good relationship with at all," she said of her experience. "And I watched people have realizations about themselves and about the world that gave them this sense of a freedom and more options and able to connect with family members if they've been estranged, or achieve a goal that they never thought imaginable."

"I've also reconnected with my acting manager and am going on auditions hoping to get some roles," she said of what she's up to now. "I think I have a lot of life experience now to bring and I think the great actors have wisdom from their life experiences. I'm working on a podcast. I'm active on social media and networking, just really trying to encourage people to think critically about the narratives they read about in the media."

Clyne's podcast is The Dossier Project. It's about her experience in DOS, the women's group from which several women came forward alleging that it was created to give Raniere more sexual partners.

She doesn't deny every detail that came from the trial or the HBO documentary The Vow, but she maintains that no actual crime took place. "[Journalist Frank Parlato] was writing all sorts of things that sometimes had seeds of truth, but were mostly fantastical. When you combine fantasy with a tiny truth, people then extrapolate and they think, 'Well, if this thing is true, maybe all these other things were true,' and no one fact-checked anything."

Frank Parlato created The Frank Report to take down Raniere, and in many ways, it worked. Raniere is currently behind bars, but Clyne believes that Raniere is innocent, even if his methods may seem unorthodox. In discussing Raniere's unsuccessful appeal, Clyne said, "It sounds like the appellate court really bought into the narrative because their summary of why they denied it used all of the salacious language that again, wasn't about criminal activity, but maybe morally unacceptable behavior. They clearly didn't like Keith."

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