Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Page #11

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You know,

and they're f***ing--

"i've got a f***ing migraine

right now,

"and i've never

felt so shitty!"

You know,

that's the f***ing life.

There's nothing

part of the way for me!

It's just-- whoo!

He drank the kool-aid.

And in the eyes of miscavige,

Tom cruise is the perfect

scientology celebrity.

And nobody's benefited more

from his membership.

I mean, the amount

of free sea org labor.

Sea org members make

40 cents an hour,

And i don't think

there's any way

Tom cruise

is not aware of that.

The church

has done so much for him.

They tricked out all his cars

and his motorcycles.

"oh, i want a new limo."

"we'll build it for you."

Decked out tom cruise's hangar

in santa monica.

Installed all

the audiovisual stuff

in cruise's home.

Tom cruise had expressed

this fantasy

Of wanting

to run through a meadow

with nicole kidman.

And so everybody had to work,

and till the soil.

And then david miscavige

didn't like it,

And so the whole thing

had to be ripped up again.

This was at the gold facility,

Which is this desert facility,

Where this is all kinds

of great stuff,

If you're tom cruise,

you know?

Wonderful living quarters

and a gym.

When cruise comes up,

everyone's told in advance,

"you better have

a f***ing smile on your face."

Everyone had to

call cruise "sir."

Thank you.

It's this

side-by-side world.

There are celebrities

like cruise and travolta,

And then, you know,

there are people

Who tell terrible tales

of what happened to them

in the church--

Being imprisoned

and really horrible

psychological games.

Tom was in spain.

They were opening up

a new scientology church

in madrid.

And he was overheard

to complain

That he needed

a new girlfriend.

Soon after that,

a young scientologist

premed student

Named nazanin boniadi--

she was told

That she was going to get

a special assignment.

...Number of transactions

increase...

Years later, nazanin became

a successful tv actress

And she would

have a small part

in a paul haggis film.

But at the time,

she was a dedicated

young scientologist

Who believed

in the church's claims

For its humanitarian

mission.

In fact,

she set a monthly record

For selling books

for the church.

Nazanin may not

speak publicly

about her experiences

Because of an nda

the church pressured her

to sign,

But i discovered details

from fbi testimony

Regarding her ordeal.

David miscavige

assigned nazanin's case

To a key church official,

greg wilhere.

He put her through

a one-month program

Of on-camera interviews,

intensive auditing,

and security checks.

She was moved

into the celebrity center,

Separated from her family,

and certain problems

were addressed

During this period of time.

One was,

she had a boyfriend.

She is handed a transcript

of his auditing session,

In which he admitted

that he had an affair.

And so she broke up

with him.

Then wilhere took her

to an orthodontist

To have her braces removed.

At burberry and other stores

in beverly hills,

He bought her $20,000

worth of clothes.

At the celebrity centre,

a man who worked

For cruise's hair stylist

Colored nazanin's hair

to cruise's liking.

Nazanin was told

that her makeover

Was a part

of the church's

humanitarian mission.

She had to look

her best for conferences

with world leaders.

Only after she was flown

first class to new york

Did she discover

the actual role

That the church

wanted her to play.

She was to be the girlfriend

of scientology's biggest star.

Within a month,

nazanin was living

with cruise.

While at his house

in telluride,

Miscavige came to visit.

Overcome

by a severe headache,

Nazanin had a hard time

understanding miscavige,

Which infuriated him.

The next day, cruise,

inches from her face,

Pounded his fist on the table

and screamed at her

For insulting the head

of the church.

Two weeks later,

church henchman tommy davis

Delivered

the news to nazanin--

The relationship with cruise

was over.

And they, according to her,

Came to her apartment

with her mom

And found every photograph

of the two of them together,

And took them away.

Every scrap, every letter,

everything,

They...

As if it never existed.

And she was really upset,

Because she

had been really hurt

by the whole thing.

And she made the mistake

of telling her friend,

Who immediately went to tell

someone in the church.

She agreed

to do punishments,

Like cleaning out

the public bathrooms

On her hands and knees

with a toothbrush,

While other people she knew

were stepping over her.

She did nothing wrong,

other than tell her friend

That she was heartbroken,

and this is the way

she was treated?

The church claims that

miscavige has no involvement

In cruise's personal life

And that the search

for cruise's girlfriend

never existed.

I wanna tell you something.

I have never met

a more competent,

A more intelligent,

a more tolerant,

A more compassionate being,

Outside of what

i've experienced from lrh.

And i've met the leaders

of leaders.

Okay? I've met them all.

And so i say to you,

sir, cob,

We are lucky to have you

and thank you very much.

While miscavige

would do anything

For the church's

most famous celebrity,

Miscavige began

to turn against

The sea org's

highest-ranking executives.

He pretty much

had international management

shut down.

He was into

this deep paranoia thing

About everybody is

out to get him.

He very definitely

Wiped out

that organizational pattern

In order to be able

to have ultimate power.

In 2004,

Miscavige ordered

the top officers

of the sea org

To the scientology's

gold base

In southern california.

He forced them

to live in a pair

of double-wide trailers

That came to be called

"the hole."

The doors had bars

put on them,

The windows all had bars

put on them,

And there was

one entrance door

That a security guard

sat at 24 hours a day.

They had to stay there,

sleep there.

It stunk and,

you know, there were ants

crawling around.

You'd sleep about an hour

or two hours a night.

Um, you were

in such a mental state

That you're very controllable,

very suggestible.

We were told

we needed to come up

With what

each other's crimes were

Against miscavige and hubbard,

So that we could eventually

get out of the hole.

Scientology is really good

At making you think

that you are a scoundrel.

"confess your crimes!

Confess your crimes!

What have you done?"

Fights would break out.

Miscavige would get me

all riled up.

And i remember one time,

mike had done something,

Or not done something,

i don't remember,

And i was supposed to

go beat him up.

One executive was made

to mop up

The bathroom floor

with his tongue.

Another was put

into a bucket,

And pummeled

by some of the women,

and called a lesbian.

There was a very powerful

air conditioner,

Which blew straight down,

It was set

on maximum cold,

And a guy was

made to sit in a chair,

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