Lifetime Is Bringing Catherine Oxenberg’s Story to Life With NXIVM Cult: A Mom’s Nightmare
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Legislation & Order: SVU type of went there, now Lifetime is absolutely going there with a TV film based mostly on the NXIVM story. Lifetime’s NXIVM Cult: A Mom’s Nightmare (the working title), follows the true story of Catherine Oxenberg and her battle to save lots of daughter India from what Lifetime describes as a “harmful intercourse cult.”
Andrea Roth of Rescue Me fame will play Catherine. Twilight and Nurse Jackie veteran Peter Facinelli is ready to play Keith Raniere, Jasper Polish will play Catherine’s daughter India and Sara Fletcher will tackle the function of Smallville star and NXIVM affiliate Allison Mack.
Set for a fall 2019 debut, the film follows what occurs after Catherine took her daughter to a NXIVM seminar.
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“Led by the extraordinarily enigmatic Keith Raniere, Catherine can not help however shake the sensation there’s greater than meets the attention with the self-help group. Regardless of Catherine’s greatest efforts, India is drawn deeper into the cult, ultimately becoming a member of a secret sorority of feminine members who’re branded with the cult chief’s initials, ordered to take care of a restricted weight-reduction plan and compelled to recruit different ladies as intercourse slaves,” Lifetime mentioned in a press launch. “NXIVM Cult: A Mom’s Nightmare tells the story of a mom who will cease at nothing to get her daughter again and exposes the intricate seductive energy of Allison and Keith and the psychological and bodily abuse India fell sufferer to.”
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Oxenberg serves as govt producer alongside Judith Verno, Yfat Reiss Gendell and Richie Kern. Lisa Robinson is directing with a script by Adam Mazer.
In April 2018, information broke TV present based mostly on the alleged intercourse slavery ring was in growth. In June 2019, Raniere was discovered responsible of intercourse trafficking and racketeering. Mack pleaded responsible to racketeering.
The NXIVM film is simply the most recent in a powerful of ripped-from-the-headlines tales together with Kidnapped: The Mary Stauffer Story starring Alyson Hannigan and Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story starring Addison Holley, Ian Lake and Sarah Sales space.