| Updated January 26, 2021 J Benson Pictures / Courtesy of Sarah Edmondson Vancouver actor Sarah Edmondson is glad she opened up about her experience in the NXIVM cult. Sarah Edmondson didn’t get much sleep the night before I talked to her. “My kids got up so fucking early this morning,” she tells me over the phone from her home in Vancouver, between sips of coffee. “ 4:55.” You’d never know she was tired, though. Edmondson is a fast talker, one of those people with a lot of chipper energy, clever, quick to punctuate a story with sharp, funny observations. Anyone who’s seen “The Vow,” the HBO documentary series that details her 12-year experience in the NXIVM cult, is familiar.