You can't miss her micro expressions... she seems very pleased with herself to be a part of something important (taking down a cult, "I have a child to save") and very pleased to be in a documentary...much more so than legitimately worried about her daughter. In the part where Mark is talking about how the cult is not something he and Bonnie are ready to make fun of (end of Episode 8), you can clearly see on her face that she is amused to some degree. It's subtle, but very much there. No empathy really, just a little half smile. I dunno. Got under my skin.
"After Catherine Oxenberg confronted her daughter about her concerns in June 2017, she was dismissed and India Oxenberg returned to Albany, which was where she was living to be a part of the central hub of NXIVM. The interview Catherine Oxenberg granted Amer and Noujaim shortly after that event turned into a year of their cameras capturing her plight. “They just never left the house,” she says. Her story begins in the fourth episode of “The Vow,” and it includes discussions with Parlato, as well as concerns that the New York Times is sitting on the story too long because they considered it “evergreen.”
But, India Oxenberg’s story is not captured within “The Vow.” This is because Catherine Oxenberg made the deliberate decision to separate from Amer and Noujaim after Mack and Raniere were arrested in 2018."
“That was my struggle all along: what is the line, what is the threshold where a victim turns into a perpetrator? I watched the government build their case very carefully, and there was a clear line of delineation, and I think that Allison, yes she started off as a victim, but she took the reins of power and she abused other women to the point where I no longer have sympathy for her,” she explains.
The focus of the film, she adds, “is really how Allison sucked in India.” https://www.etonline.com/whats-the-nxivm-cult-everything-to-watch-or-read-in-addition-to-the-lifetime-movie-132791
Catherine Oxenberg consulted Rachel after her daughter was recruited into the secret upper-echelon of NXIVM, where its members were nearly starved and branded. A re-release episode, with follow up to come: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27915810
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Catherine Oxenberg, author of Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult joins me to discuss her ordeal extracting her daughter India from NXIVM and her experiences helping bring Keith Raniere to justice.
Catherine Oxenberg candidly reveals details of her daughter's time spent in NXIVM and assisting the FBI in bringing down NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere, who earlier this year was convicted on all counts after a jaw-dropping trial.
In this episode, we discuss:
* Catherine's initial objection to ESP (the training that would become NXIVM)
* What the 'therapy' part of NXIVM's training looked like
* Why she eventually stopped taking classes
* What happened when Catherine realized India was in over her head
* How Catherine snapped into action to deliver a plan that would not only pull her daughter out, but would put Keith behind bars
* What Catherine learned for the first time watching the trial
* And more...
Preview: https://onbelief.fireside.fm/118
Full: patreon.com/karengeier
