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Tom Cruise’s ‘religion’: Scientology has kept this family apart for a decade

[Phil and Willie Jones and their kids Mike and Emily]

 
As of this week, it’s been 10 years since we’ve seen our kids, Emily and Mike.

Scientology made them disconnect from us once we were out and criticized the cult. There is always a sense of amazement to me that the kids would go along with this L. Ron Hubbard mandate about disconnection, but then I look at how insidious the conditioning is in Scientology and how I also fell into its thrall for so many years.

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Confirmed: Scientology leader David Miscavige is coming to Los Angeles this month!

Two weeks ago, we told you that one of our sources had received an invitation to attend a taping of Scientology’s New Year’s event on December 16 at LA’s Shrine Auditorium, which suggested that church leader David Miscavige was following up his visit to England in November to revive the annual IAS gala there by doing the same in Los Angeles with the traditional end-of-year celebration.

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New court leak: Scientology lied that Leah Remini had ‘blood on her hands’ in knife slay

As Leah Remini’s Emmy-winning A&E network series Scientology and the Aftermath neared the end of its three-season run in 2019, it was a refrain we were beginning to hear constantly from the Church of Scientology itself: Leah Remini had blood on her hands.

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Twenty-eight years ago today: The final hours of Lisa McPherson’s Scientology life

 
We want to warn you the story we’re reprinting today is very disturbing and contains graphic descriptions that some may find difficult to deal with. Eight years ago we marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Lisa McPherson by recording, in real time, the final weeks of her life. Today marks the 28th anniversary of her final day on earth, and we are reproducing the culminating piece of our series which we published eight years ago.

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Leah Remini spells out Scientology’s abuses in stunning new court declaration

 
We’re still going through the more than 700 pages of new court documents that Leah Remini and her legal team submitted to the court Friday in response to Scientology’s attempt to gut her lawsuit against her former church.

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