Love seeing you here and reading this, Anika!

Sorry but you don’t really sound like a man to me. #JustSayin

Ha! You’re clearly a cuckoo ex-member of SSM from this article. Did you guys get together and brainstorm comebacks? They all have the same stench of suck.

So awesome! Way to let them know Kale123!!!!

Yeah, I heard Anna Merlin is Jezebel’s top intern though. She tries real hard.

Hell yeah, this was so similar to my experience. Katie Arnold was trying to get people to join her Anti-SSM cult the second she left. And it was weird. Real weird.

It’s true. She was never a member of SSM.

I got an email from Anika Reitman, another former SSM member who disputes some of the claims made by the women I spoke to for this piece. She’s given me permission to print her email — I have edited it lightly but here it is more or less in full.

OMG! oh no her intuition is off... who’s the valley gal now? so offfffff!

International has mentored me for 6 years and I’ve been a member of Superstar Machine from day 1 and it’s been amazing and life changing. This article is not at all consistent with my experience. I know all the former SSM members who have been featured in this article and I don’t at all agree with their…

As a cult specialist, you should know that not having had a first hand experience of this program does not make you qualified in any way.

I like your perspective. One of the most open minded of all of these comments. People have reasons and if it works for them, great. And if it doesn’t, you don’t go trying to tear down what other people find meaningful. Just sayin’... I think this article is very judgmental and very wrong. Slanderous even.

This article is so WACK! I’m a proud QUEER member of both Superstar Machine AND IHSR! And I have always...ALWAYS been supported in that.. because that’s who I am authentically. And if there is something that International supports it’s authenic expression! So I can straight up attest that it’s a load of crap that…

My girlfriend is in Superstar Machine. I don’t know much about it because I consider it her business. But this feels way,way off. I’ve met about a dozen of her girlfriends who are fellow members, and all of them seemed perfectly well adjusted and normal- except for Katie Arnold. I had no problem with Katie personally,…

Yeah, that might take a while.

this sounds like an insane and very unhappy, bitter spiteful person. poor you. cringe...

after her? no. you actually believe this is evil. wow. on the contrary, poppy is coming after us! She was never even a member of SSM. She just brought her friends to join so she was at the events.

As a Super Hottie in International Hot School Radio I can say that this is definitely a CULT which is the root word of CULTURE! HELLO PEOPLE?!?! Are you all idiots?! Are we seriously still afraid of Kool-Aid and shit?

This article is totally biased, one-sided, and doesn’t reflect all the people (including myself) that International has helped. Irresponsible journalism and lame reporting Anna! He is a visionary and has helped me be super successful in my life and in my marriage, and as a mom. The cult thing is ridiculous- last I…

still trying to wrap your mind around something that obviously isn’t actually happening the way it is portrayed...