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Uh-oh. Something’s amiss with the “happy” family at the Church of Scientology…
The 24-year-old niece of the church’s leader, David Miscavige, Jenna, is speaking out against the Church and in favor of Andrew Morton’s controversial Tom Cruise biography, slamming Jesus Cruise for “supporting a religion that tears apart families, both in the media and monetarily.” Since then, Jenna claims she’s been subjected to harassment.
“The church has contacted several of my friends, telling them that I am smearing the church and I am going to be declared a suppressive person and asking my friends if they would disconnect from me and, in at least one case, insisting that they do,” Jenna tells investigative journalist Philip Recchia. “At least eight friends have removed themselves from my MySpace page,” she said, and blames the church for it.
Although a Scientology spokeswoman has publicly accused Jenna of lying, Jenna is not backing down. Her mother and father left Scientology in 2000, but she stayed in until 2005, during which time she says she was kept in a boarding school, only allowed to see her parents once a year and subjected to a bizarre daily regimen.
“If you flunked your uniform inspection, sometimes if you were late . . . you would be dumped with a five-gallon bucket of ice water,” she recounts. “We were also required to write down all transgressions . . . similar to a sin in the Catholic religion. After writing them all down, we would receive a meter check on the Electropsychometer to make sure we weren’t hiding anything, and you would have to keep writing until you came up clean. This is from the age of 5 until I was 12.”
The saddest part of that story is the mass exodus of MySpace friends. Hold strong, Jen! Sounds like it’s time to join Facebook and “poke” the hell out of those backstabbers!
[Graphic by Gallery of the Absurd]
Damn, I’ll be her friend!
February 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pmGreat pic, Candy and GotA!
It’s the usual Scientology response:
February 6th, 2008 at 3:22 pmcall everyone else a liar and litigate
them into bankruptcy. What a racket.
Great pic!
February 6th, 2008 at 6:22 pmI love that Tom’s feet don’t touch the floor!
February 7th, 2008 at 3:29 am