The Lifetime adaptation spans the years Oxenberg spent trying to take down the cult and free her daughter.
“Hi, I’m Catherine Oxenburg,” she says.
“My family was fractured by horrific circumstances and we were able to come back together again.
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This is my story.
“Warning: spoilers ahead!
Escaping the NXIVM Cultthen transitions to the dramatization of the story, with Andrea Roth playing Oxenberg.
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But India really believes in the group’s message.
Oxenberg sees him kissing multiple women, and that’s when he meets India.
Horrified, she decides to leave but India stays to “find” herself.
Her goal is to get to 106 lbs and she wants the same for India.
A year passes, and India barely comes home.
She also uses her inheritance to enroll in NXIVM University full-time.
Oxenberg vows to get her out of it.
Her initiation involves being held down naked and getting burned with Raniere’s initials.
The FBI finally opens an official investigation now that the agents have real proof of crimes being committed.
Oxenberg’s press tour results in dozens of women defecting from NXIVM, but Raniere isn’t worried.
But Raniere is arrested in Mexico and India is picked up by the FBI.
India calls the cult deprogrammer her mother recommended to her, ready to talk.
She hopes her story helps to educate others about widespread and systemic predatory abuse.
