One of the stranger things to come up with articles about Allison Mack‘s involvement with the NXIVM cult is that some articles at the time had noted that she had been engaged to her Smallville co-star, Sam Witwer, at some point. (Allison played Chloe; Witwer was Davis Bloome in Season 8). These stories seemed to disappear — and now we know why, though we have no idea where it all started as there was never any indication of the two being social outside of work.
Sam Witwer addressed the misinformation in a recent visit to Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast.
“TMZ runs this whole information about me, that I was engaged to her while that NXIVM stuff was happening, Sam recalled. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know the chick. I worked with her, but I never really knew her’.”
So what does Sam think happened, and how was this rumor taken care of?
“Here’s the deal. The fans really liked our relationship on the show, so I was aware that the fans were like, ‘we think that they’re actually dating in real life’ And I’m like, ‘oh, great. They’re spreading rumors about them.’ Then that story took on a life of its own. I had my publicity team write TMZ and essentially say, ‘hi, you didn’t do your due diligence. This is going to harm Sam’s ability to get work. And if you can’t provide one f###ing photograph of these two people in public, retract your g#####n story or we’re going to sue you.’ TMZ then suddenly started issuing retractions, and then the little sites issued retractions.”
So now you know: Sam Witwer and Allison Mack were never engaged, though at the time of her arrest, Allison was married to actor and fellow NXIVM cult member Nicki Clyne. You can check out the short from Inside of You below: