“We were instructed to remove all of our clothes and walk one by one into the room, where there was a table,” says India, recalling her initiation along with three other women into a secret Nxivm sisterhood called DOS. “I had two women holding my hands and my feet so I wouldn’t convulse.”
As the cauterising pen carved a symbol near her bikini line, she could hear the woman she called her master, Smallville actress Allison Mack, chanting, “Feel the pain, feel the love,” as the smell of burning flesh filled the air. “I remember watching what was happening but not really registering it,” she says. “I remember crying, but not with pain. There was no choice to say no.”
What India didn’t understand at the time was that she was being branded with the initials of Nxivm’s leader Keith Raniere – and that Raniere, 60, a sexual predator, had brainwashed and blackmailed her into submission in the time since she had joined the group.
It was India’s mother, actress Catherine Oxenberg, 59 – known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s television series Dynasty – who took her fight to save her daughter to the media in 2017 and helped expose the cult leader and his core followers. Five months later, Raniere was arrested on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and possession of child pornography.
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