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[Sunny and her mother]“She knows what she has to do.” It was a matter-of-fact statement to my husband from my mother. I was pregnant with our second child and we wanted to let my Sea Org mother know about it. She had never met my children or my husband. We had thought he could call her up and let her know she was welcome to see our children and us. Of course she would not, because I, her daughter, was labelled a “Suppressive Person” by Scientology, over a decade earlier. Continue reading How Scientology makes forced disconnection even worse than the separation
[Judge Robert Broadbelt III]We’ll have a correspondent in the courtroom today as Jane Doe 1’s forced-marriage lawsuit has a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court. And in this case, Judge Robert Broadbelt III has already tipped his hand: Last night he issued a tentative ruling showing that he’s going to side with Jane Doe 1. Continue reading Judge: Jane Doe 1 can have ‘limited discovery’ before arbitration showdown
Back on November 18, we told you about a flier that was forwarded to us that indicated Scientology was going to try to follow the success of its IAS gala in England by reviving its New Year’s tradition in Los Angeles. Continue reading How desperate is Scientology to find people for its New Year’s event? This desperate.
Once again, Scientology knows just what to suggest as you try to finish up your Christmas shopping list this year. Continue reading Breathe easy, space cadet: Your Scientology holiday shopping guide has arrived!
Over at The Daily Beast, we have a story today with one of the closest looks at what Scientology is putting Valerie Haney through as she experienced three days of the church’s “religious arbitration” in Los Angeles. Continue reading Today at the Daily Beast: What Valerie Haney’s Scientology ‘arbitration’ was really like
Scientology’s annual co-opting of Christmas is back, and this marks the 40th anniversary of “Winter Wonderland,” when, from his hiding place in 1983, L. Ron Hubbard had a Christmas tree put up in Hollywood for the first time. Continue reading Scientology’s co-opting of Christmas is back, and we have a grim reminder about it
[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. Continue reading Tom Cruise’s ‘religion’: Scientology has kept this family apart for a decade
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. Continue reading Confirmed: Scientology leader David Miscavige is coming to Los Angeles this month!
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. Continue reading New court leak: Scientology lied that Leah Remini had ‘blood on her hands’ in knife slay
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. Continue reading Twenty-eight years ago today: The final hours of Lisa McPherson’s Scientology life
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