Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (70 page)

87
Nazanin Boniadi:
Boniadi’s story comes from four off-the-record former Scientologists, in addition to the published sources.

88
“was a military commander”:
Hubbard, “The Responsibilities of Leaders,” HCO Bulletin, Feb. 12, 1967, corrected and reissued Sept. 4, 1979.

89
Then came the shopping spree:
According to
Vanity Fair
, “Scientology denies that any such clothes were purchased or that any such trip took place ‘for this phantom project that never existed.’ ” Maureen Orth, “What Katie Didn’t Know,”
Vanity Fair
, Oct. 2012.

90
She spent that first night:
Ibid.

91
“He needs to get his ethics”:
Rathbun,
The Scientology Reformation
, p. 85.

92
Naz had embarrassed Miscavige:
Maureen Orth, “What Katie Didn’t Know,”
Vanity Fair
, Oct. 2012. The church told
Vanity Fair
, “Mr. Miscavige doesn’t remember any girlfriend of anyone, in his entire life, insulting him.”

93
“You don’t get it”:
Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun; also, Rathbun,
The Scientology Reformation
, p. 86. Tom Cruise’s attorney, Bertram Fields, denies that this exchange took place. “He’s never said anything like that, and he doesn’t think that. This is vicious rubbish.”

94
Naz’s last glimpse was:
Maureen Orth, “What Katie Didn’t Know,”
Vanity Fair
, Oct. 2012.

95
The search for a new mate:
Morton,
Tom Cruise
, pp. 261–66.

96
The names included Kate Bosworth:
Morton,
Tom Cruise
, p. 270; “Katie Holmes’ Missing Days,”
FoxNews.com
, June 21, 2005,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160192,00.html
.

97
Holmes was an ingénue:
Sara Stewart, “Katie Loves Her Cruise Control,”
New York Post
, June 12, 2005.

98
“I think every young girl dreams”:
Jeannette Walls, “No ‘Risky Business’ for Cruise, Holmes,”
MSNBC.com
, May 2, 2005.

99
“I was in love from”:
Ibid., p. 271.

100
nighttime helicopter ride:
Interview with Noriyuki Matsumaru.

101
“best friend”:
Robert Haskell, “Holmes, Sweet Holmes,”
W
, Aug. 2005; “Katie Holmes’ Missing Days,”
FoxNews.com
, June 21, 2005,
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160192,00.html
.

102
“Something’s happened”:
The Oprah Winfrey Show
, May 23, 2005.

103
Today
show:
Today
show, June 25, 2005.

104
“At this stage”:
Ibid.

105
“five billion years ago”:
Hubbard, “Aberration and the Sixth Dynamic,” lecture on Nov. 13, 1956.

106
“place Scientology at the absolute”:
David Miscavige speech, International Association of Scientologists, Copenhagen, Oct. 6, 1995.

107
The Citizens Commission on:
www.cchr.org/quick-facts/real-disease-vs-mental-disorder.html
.

108
“Whatever type of drugs that Zawahiri”:
Larry Byrnes,
The Know Drugs Show, Freedom
magazine video,
video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=4437051883726295326
.

109
more than twenty percent of children:
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
,
www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter3/sec1.html
.

110
About ten percent of Americans:
Marcia Angell, “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?”
New York Review of Books
, June 23, 2011.

111
“I identified”:
Interview with Paul Haggis.

112
Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston:
Alisa Ulferts, “Scientologists Push Mental Health Law,”
St. Petersburg Times
, April 9, 2005. Katherine Mieszkowski, “Scientology’s War on Psychiatry,”
Salon
, July 1, 2005. Retrieved from
http://www.salon.com/2005/07/01/sci_psy/
.

113
“None of these children were psychotic”:
Alisa Ulferts, “Panel Waters Down Limits on Student Mental Services,”
St. Petersburg Times
, April 20, 2005.

114
Eli Lilly … suppressed data:
Marilyn Elias, “Prozac Linked to Child Suicide Risk,”
USA Today
, Sept. 13, 2004.

115
were twelve times more:
Tom Watkins, “Papers Indicate Firm Knew Possible Prozac Suicide Risk,”
CNN Health
, Jan. 3, 2005.

116
One of the killers was:
Joel Achenbach and Dale Russakoff, “Teen Shooter’s Life Paints Antisocial Portrait,”
Washington Post
, April 29, 1999.

117
“can experience nervousness”:
W. Alexander Morton and Gwendolyn G. Stockton, “Methylphenidate Abuse and Psychiatric Side Effects,”
The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
2, no. 5 (Oct. 2000).

118
Several studies have found:
Thomas P. Laughren, “Overview for December 13 Meeting of Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC),” memorandum, Nov. 16, 2006.

119
saving 33,600 lives:
Michael S. Milane, Marc A. Suchard, Ma-Li Wong, Julio Licinio, “Modeling of the Temporal Patterns of Fluoxetine Prescriptions and Suicide Rates in the United States,”
PLoS Medicine
3, no. 6 (June 2006), pp. 816–24.

120
Jeremy Perkins:
“Scientology: A Question of Faith,”
CBS News
, May 7, 2009.

121
she came close to jumping:
Affidavit of Hana Eltringham Whitfield, Mar. 8, 1994.

122
It was only when she:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

123
“It has changed my”:
“Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression,”
Psychiatric Times
8, no. 6 (June 1991).

124
The Los Angeles County:
www.whyaretheydead.info/flo_barnett/coroner.html
.

125
In 2007, Kyle Brennan:
Plaintiff’s Supplement to Response to Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment,
Estate of Kyle Thomas Brennan vs. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc., Denise Miscavige Gentile, Gerald Gentile, and Thomas Brennan
, US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division.

126
costs approximately $25,000:
Ibid.; and Tony Ortega, “Jamie De Wolf, L. Ron Hubbard’s Great Grandson, Gaining More Notoriety for His Views on Scientology,”
Runnin’ Scared
(blog
), The Village Voice
, July 26, 2012.

127
suit was dismissed:
Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Wrongful Death Suit Against Church of Scientology,”
Tampa Bay Times
, Sept. 21, 2012.

128
“It is irresponsible for Mr. Cruise”:
www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/psychiatry/psychiatry7.html
.

129
But at the 2005 annual:
Morton,
Tom Cruise
, p. 292.

130
“If someone wants to get off drugs”:
“Spiegel Interview with Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg,”
Spiegel
, Apr. 27, 2005.

131
“a movie of intense fascination”:
Roger Ebert, “Crash,”
Chicago Sun Times
, May 5, 2005.

132
“frustrating movie”:
A. O. Scott, “Bigotry as the Outer Side of Inner Angst,”
New York Times
, May 6, 2005.

133
most powerful actor:
“The Power List,”
Premiere
, June 2006.

134
most powerful celebrity:
“Tom Cruise Ranked 1 among the Top 100 Celebrities in 2006,”
Forbes
, May 1, 2007.

135
“Cruise was drooling”:
Interview with John Brousseau.

136
“It was a half-million-dollar beauty”:
Ibid.

137
“Oh, J.B.”:
Tony Ortega, “ ‘Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige like a God’: The John Brousseau Story, Part Two,”
Runnin’ Scared
(blog),
The Village Voice
, July 29, 2012.

138
“None of the Church staff”:
Church of Scientology responses to queries.

139
reincarnations of Simón Bolívar and Manuela Sáenz:
Interview with Tom De Vocht. Mark “Marty” Rathbun,
Moving on Up a Little Higher; Commemorative Edition
, p. 106.

140
“The bulldog was gone”:
Interview with John Brousseau.

141
Former Sea Org members say:
Ibid.; Mark “Marty” Rathbun, personal communication.

142
Miscavige sent Shelly:
Interview with Noriyuki Matsumaru.

143
Among the celebrities attending:
Morton,
Tom Cruise
, pp. 307–8.

1
“The sexual pervert”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, p. 103.

2
“the most dangerous and wicked level”:”
Hubbard,
The Science of Survival
, p. 88. Hubbard’s remarks about homosexuality don’t appear in later editions of the book.

3
“This is the level”:
Ibid., p. 89.

4
“to dispose of them quietly”:
Ibid., p. 157.

5
“Homosexuality is about as serious”:
Hubbard, “The Resolution of the Second Dynamic,” lecture, Oct. 1952.

6
“sacked for homosexuality”:
Hubbard: HCO Executive Letter: Amprinistics, Sept. 27, 1965.

7
“It has never been any part”:
Hubbard, “Second Dynamic Rules,” HCO Policy Letter, Aug. 11, 1967.

8
Gays in the church:
Interview with Guy White.

9
“to make go away”:
Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

10
In 2003, a gay artist:
Interview with Michael Pattinson.

11
“I was just floored”:
Interview with Lauren Haggis.

12
In 1996, the church sent:
Tony Ortega, “Sympathy for the Devil,”
New Times L.A
., Sept. 27, 2001. The church explains, “In 1996, the Church had in place a program to assist members to post websites about their activities as Scientologists. The Church included in the program a spam filter that these parishioners could use to modulate the inquiries they received as a result of placing their personal stories as Scientologists on the Internet. This program lasted about a year.” Karin Pouw, personal communication.

13
“The worldwide interest in Scientology”:
www.youtube.com/watch/v=OfbLn9xPW4
.

14
“Hana told us”:
Interview with Mary Benjamin.

15
“I was PTS, but I”:
“Celebrity Interview: Kelly Preston,”
Celebrity
, #376, undated.

16
“It was that”:
Interview with Deborah Rennard Haggis.

17
“Until then”:
Ibid.

18
“We tried to do”:
Letter from “Mom and Bob” to Deborah and Paul Haggis, Sept. 14, 2006.

19
“You don’t have any money”:
Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “The Truth Rundown,” St.
Petersburg Times
, June 21, 2009.

20
“It was immensely tender”:
Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Scientology’s Response to Church Defectors: ‘Total Lies,’ ”
St. Petersburg Times
, June 20, 2009.

21
“At the top of the church”:
Interview with Paul Haggis.

22
“We ran ourselves completely”:
Interview with Jenna Miscavige Hill.

23
These stories reminded him:
The church says that it adheres to “all child labor laws,” and that minors can’t sign up without parental consent; the freeloader tabs are an “ecclesiastical matter” and are not enforced through litigation.

24
“They were ten, twelve”:
Interview with Paul Haggis.

25
“He turned off all women”:
Bryan Burrough, “Sleeping with the Fishes,”
Vanity Fair
, Dec. 2006.

26
“Being a Scientologist”:
“Tom Cruise Scientology Video—(Original UNCUT),”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
.

27
“When somebody enrols”:
Hubbard, “Keeping Scientology Working,” HCO Policy L, Feb. 7, 1965.

28
“We were a bunch of kids”:
Interview with Gregg Housh.

29
“We shall proceed to expel”:
Anonymous,
Message to Scientology
, video, Jan. 21, 2008.

30
the star had a favor:
Haggis remembers the show being
Larry King Live
. A former professional associate of Cruise’s says it was
Oprah
, although both shows may have been approached.

31
“Yeah, I get that it sounds crazy”:
Paul Haggis, personal communication.

32
“I came across”:
Matt Lauer interview with Tom Cruise,
Today
, Dec. 15, 2008.

33
“a rocket ride”:
Interview with Jason Beghe.

34
“Nobody tells me”:
Interview with Paul Haggis.

35
“Tommy”:
Paul Haggis, e-mail to Tommy Davis, Aug. 19, 2009.

36
“If you audit somebody”:
Interview with Marc Headley.

37
“I just left”:
Interview with John Brousseau.

38
“Hey, J.B.”:
Ibid.

39
“seashells and butterflies”:
Interview with Mike Rinder.

40
“No clearer than when”:
Interview with Anne Archer.

41
“it was like reading”:
Interview with Mark Isham.

42
They showed up at his office:
Interviews with Michael Nozik and Gian Sardar.

43
“Tommy, you are absolutely right”:
Interview with Paul Haggis.

44
“You’re a journalist”:
Interview with Paul Haggis.

45
“Paul, what the hell!”:
Ibid.