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Yesterday, Mike Rinder and Leah Remini made a strong statement of support for director Paul Haggis at Rinder’s website. They explained how Scientologists are mined for intimate details about their lives, which they suspect may have led to recent accusations made against Haggis by four women, two of whom allege that they were raped, in 1996 and 2013. Continue reading Leah Remini and Mike Rinder cite Scientology interrogations as they support Paul Haggis
 [Joy Villa and Robbie Olson]We spoke this weekend to Robbie Olson, 62, a Tucson-based GOP conservative who spent part of last year shepherding political upstart Joy Villa, 31, as she was rapidly ascending the highest levels of the “Make America Great Again” movement and was even endorsed by Donald Trump himself. Continue reading Joy Villa’s former manager: ‘Scientology destroyed everything’

Rod Keller checks in with a look at how David Miscavige’s plan for new Narconons around the world is increasingly running into obstacles. Continue reading Scientology plans Narconon drug rehab for Ireland, but the locals are not having it

Ten years ago tomorrow, a nine-minute video of Tom Cruise was leaked to the Internet, and the Church of Scientology would never be the same. Continue reading Ten years ago, all hell broke loose for Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology
 [Dave Touretzky, right, at HowdyCon 2016, with Bunker denizen $cientologyMonkeyNut$]Over the last several months, we’ve been posting numerous FBI documents about Scientology that have been pried loose by journalist Emma Best as part of a lawsuit. She’s been kind enough to give us a crack at many of the items as they’ve come available, and that’s led to some really fun disclosures like a 1985 letter from Nibs that we got to see for the first time recently. Continue reading When Scientology tried to convince the FBI that a college prof ran a cabal of critics

David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology are doing their ecclesiastical best to play up the “religion” thing as much as possible these days. As their organization shrinks and comes under heavy fire from the media, they hold up their holy double-cross and proclaim that they are the victims of religious persecution. Continue reading Scientology’s ‘scripture’ includes a thoroughly debunked mammoth-meat hoax

We get asked a certain question on occasion, and since we get tired of answering it each time, we thought we’d put together this post so we can direct people here in the future. Continue reading Xenu or Xemu? Here’s our take on one of Scientology’s galactic-wide mysteries
 [Mike Rinder and Christie Collbran]Yesterday, former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder posted a chilling account by his wife Christie Collbran about a Scientology spy who worked to become a part of their lives. Continue reading ‘It was my job to get Mike Rinder’s trash’ — A former Scientology spy begins to spill her guts

Cory Duncan first contacted us several months ago when he saw our articles about his ex-girlfriend Joy Villa, and how the Scientology “celebrity” was skyrocketing to fame because she’d worn a “Trump” dress at the Grammy Awards last February. Continue reading Joy Villa’s ex talks about her domestic violence arrest and the child she put up for adoption
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