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She has her own ideas about why fellow performers, including “Smallville” actor Allison Mack — who served two years in federal prison for sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy related to her role in NXIVM, an organization purporting to be a self-help group — have been susceptible to fringe religious leaders.

She began running the self-help group in 2016, a decision supported by her husband, Ranjeet who dropped out of school when he was 10.

Her job as the head of a self-help group involves enrolling women into a government scheme that gives easy loans to poor women.

“Renfield,” a fast and loose horror-comedy splattered top to bottom with blood, is about Renfield trying to break free of Dracula’s fearsome sway — “a destructive relationship” as Renfield describes in a self-help group.

In New York, following a federal criminal indictment for sex trafficking, more than 80 plaintiffs filed a civil suit in 2020 against Keith Raniere, the former leader of the so-called self-help group NXIVM.