While many people who were involved in NXIVM joined later in Raniere’s career as a con artist and “spiritual leader,” Hutchinson was with him from the beginning. When Hutchinson was only 14 or 15 years old, she met Raniere, who was 23 years old at the time.

Hutchinson’s sister, Heidi, shared to the Frank Report, “He had sex with her, became her mentor, had her quit school to be tutored by him, and claimed she was born to be his ‘consort’ and achieve enlightenment as a Buddhist goddess through him.”

Not only was this statutory rape, but it was a way to groom Hutchinson into being one of his many subservient women.

Raniere even convinced Hutchinson to drop out of high school, although she defied him by going to SUNY Albany. Even still, she and Raniere had an on-and-off relationship for decades. While she often had jealousy about Raniere’s other girlfriends, she was also close friends with them, and they would remind her to try to move past her issues and share Raniere.

As Hutchinson tried to move through her trauma caused by Raniere, he only inflicted more onto her. By 2002, although she had delved into her intellectual interests, Hutchinson found herself back at Executive Success Programs, which she had initially helped Raniere develop.

She did an “Exploration of Meaning” chart in August 2002, which many of us at-home viewers are familiar with as the controversial therapy technique used by NXIVM to break their members. For Hutchinson, something did break.