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“Dynasty” star Catherine Oxenberg admits she felt “horrendous guilt” about introducing her daughter India to sex-slave cult Nxivm.

The 56-year-old actress has waged a battle to get her daughter, 27, out of the secretive organization after originally taking India to a Nxivm course in 2011.

The group’s leader, Keith Raniere, and his right-hand woman, former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, are charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy for allegedly coercing women into joining a secretive master-slave society within Nxivm — where “slaves” were forced to pleasure Raniere and have his initials permanently branded onto their skin.

Oxenberg tells NBC’s Megyn Kelly, “I brought her in. And that’s why I feel responsible for getting her out. … At first I felt horrendous guilt that I had participated in bringing my daughter into an organization that was this deviant and dangerous. And then I started to educate myself. And I spoke to numerous experts. And they said, ‘Would you stop blaming yourself? These cults are well-oiled machines. And India never stood a chance.’”

In the interview, to air on “Dateline” at 10 p.m. Monday, Oxenberg tells Kelly what India is up to now, according to NBC sources, and also reads an exclusive statement from her daughter on camera.

In the one-hour special, “A Mother’s Mission,” Oxenberg reveals she was first alerted to the potential peril India was in when a friend of her daughter’s called. “She was terrified to speak on the phone, she was afraid that she was being tapped and she said, ‘You need to save India.’ She said they had signed a lifetime vow of obedience to their master … and then I flipped out.”

Oxenberg embarked on a “high-stakes urgent crusade” to get India home. She will also appear live on “Megyn Kelly Today” on Tuesday following the “Dateline” show. She is releasing a book about her “crusade” next week.

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