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Can’t someone ask Erika Christensen a real question about Scientology?

 Once again Erika Christensen has been given the opportunity to act outraged that people don’t understand Scientology, while not saying anything about what Scientology actually []

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Matt Willis pressured to divorce by Scientology? Our experts back him up.

 Matt Willis is better known in the UK, where he was part of the pop band Busted and starred in a number of reality shows, and he’s married to another reality TV figure in England, Emma Willis, but the story Matt is telling about his brief foray into Scientology has reached our shores, and it’s []

Kirstie Alley’s daughter: ‘Everyone’ is ditching Los Angeles for Clearwater

[Lillie Parker and her husband Chaffee Burkhart Graham]

For a few years now, we’ve been telling you that all signs point to it: Scientology is fleeing Southern California, formerly its most formidable []

Recent Scientology defector: ‘I did the Purif with SNL’s Chloe Fineman’

[“It’s Britney, bitch.”]

Last week we first revealed that Saturday Night Live’s sophomore sensation Chloe Fineman is the child of Scientology Clears, she has her own record of taking Scientology courses, and halfway through her first SNL season she provided tickets for a taping to a hardcore Scientology celebrity, actress Denice []

SNL produced the best parody of Scientology ever — and then hired a Scientologist

[Chloe Fineman]

[UPDATE: Please see our follow-up to this story with a recent defector who knew Chloe Fineman in Scientology.]

Our readers are very familiar with Saturday Night Live’s absolutely brilliant 2015 parody of Scientology, the music video []

Scientology icon and double OT 8 Chick Corea dies at 79 of cancer

[Corea at the Scientology 1977 ‘OT Summit’]

Chick Corea’s Facebook account announced this afternoon that the legendary jazz artist died Tuesday of a “rare form of cancer which was only discovered []

Scientology nostalgia: Never-before-seen photos from a 2001 celebrity wankfest

 Hey, we’re going to have a little fun today. We recently managed to get our hands on some photos from a 2001 event that may represent an apotheosis for celebrity-driven Scientology. And for that reason, we think it’s worth []

Riley Keough to outdo Elisabeth Moss for most hypocritical Scientologist?

[Riley Keough and Elisabeth Moss]

Yesterday, Deadline announced that Riley Keough will be joining Dakota Johnson to star in a limited television series based on an upcoming memoir of a woman who escaped the “Children of God” cult.

Johnson will play the Children of God escapee who will team up with her friend, played by Keough, to []

Scientology to the rescue: After losing son and wife, Johnny Lewis’s dad is happier than ever

 On September 26, 2012, Sons of Anarchy actor Johnny Lewis went on a rampage, killing his 81-year-old landlord Cathy Davis and her cat, then attacking a gardener and a neighbor before either falling or jumping to his death at the Los Feliz home where he’d been living for a few days. It was the sad []

Scientologists mourn the loss of Kelly Preston, say nothing about former member Ben Keough

[Kelly Preston in a 1990 Scientology promotion]

The shocking news about Kelly Preston’s breast cancer death at 57 has led to public outpourings of grief and tributes to the actress, who was married to actor John Travolta and, like him, was a longtime and very dedicated []