An OnlyFans star was once the leader of a cult with thousands of men paying huge sums of money just to hear her speak.
Alice Irving, 24, formed the cult around the seven deadly sins – pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth – with members all joining with at least one plaguing their life.
"A cult is seen really negatively, but it's just a group of people worshipping an idea, a leader, they all believe in the same ideology or idea or person," she told the Daily Star.
The Canadian-born model only had one rule – absolutely no meeting in person.
Instead the blokes would pay Alice for the pleasure of joining virtual chat rooms or "clubs", each relating to one of the seven sins.
"There were different levels", she explained.
"People would donate every month and it would start at $10 (£7.6), then $100 (£76), $1,000 (£760), $10,000 (£7,600) and $100,000 (£76,000) per month."
Each level would give the sinners varying amounts of access to Alice's wisdom, starting with access to her social media pages and including video messages or one hour FaceTime calls.
Unbelievably, two different people paid the $100,000. They would receive a "custom" request agreed in a private chat with Alice – "but never ever meeting in person whatsoever".
The cult also had an inbuilt marketing scheme, with members putting Alice's name in the usernames they used across the web.
"Hundreds and hundreds of people would have Alice-underscore-their names. Everywhere they would go they would basically represent me," she said.
"Let's say you go in another space. Other people would be like: 'Why is there so many people called Alice-something?'. Then they would find me.
"It would grow and grow and grow. At one point – and I didn't even know – I had a subreddit with 13,000 people. I was like: 'Oh my God – that's a lot of people'."
Although the cult gave Alice a sense of "purpose" there were also more material benefits. These were particularly fruitful during an "anniversary" period, where followers would heap gifts on their cult leader to mark what was essentially her second birthday.
Alice said: "Someone gave me a $20,000 (£15,300) tip one time. Another gave, accumulatively over one month, over $100,000."
The gifts weren't all monetary either, with an "industrial box" containing thousands of Kinder Bueno chocolate bars among the most bizarre "anniversary" gifts.
Alice insisted that the primary aim of her organisation was to "make the world better", and she still keeps in contact with some of her followers despite calling it quits on life as a cult leader.
"It was only meant for good. I'm not the one saying what's good or bad but I was just helping people," she said.
"I know every cult leader says that, but it was only voluntary."
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