Scientology happy when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman split up: the book

Tom Cruise began shifting away from Scientology while filming Stanley Kubrick’s intense film Eyes Wide Shut with his then-wife Nicole Kidman in 1997, according to the new book, A Billion Years: My Escape from Life in Scientology. “.

Former high-ranking church official Mike Rinder writes that the star began to ignore the calls of Scientology chief David Miscavige while filming in London. This allegedly prompted Miscavige to send Marty Rathbun, a leading church director, to the UK for a Cruise Audit – the process by which an entity goes through the events of their life to alleviate negative emotions and achieve a level of “clarity”.

Cruise, writes Rinder, “gradually returned to the world of Scientology.”

However, this re-sacrifice allegedly “created a distance between the [Cruise] and Nicole.

Kidman had been brought to church by Cruise many years before, but “never showed any particular interest in her Scientology courses or audits,” writes Rinder. It didn’t help that her father was a psychiatrist. (According to the Church of Scientology, psychiatry provides inadequate care and over-reliance on psychiatric drugs.) “If she were not Mrs. Tom Cruise, she would not be eligible at all to participate in OT levels because of her family relationship with psychiatry.”

As the church apparently feels threatened by Kidman’s influence over their most prominent celebrity, “Rathbun collaborated with [Hollywood lawyer] Bert Fields will hire the infamous detective Anthony Pellicano to spy on Nicole and listen to her phone, ”writes Rinder.

Pellicano has spent over a decade in prison for a range of crimes including eavesdropping, racketeering, conspiracy, and the illegal possession of explosives and grenades.

“The Church has never ordered or participated in any illegal wiretaps,” said a Church spokesman for Page Six. “Mike Rinder is a staunch liar who seeks to profit from his dishonesty. He supports himself by organizing the harassment of his former Church and its leader with false police reports, incendiary propaganda and fraudulent media stories. “

Rathbun also claims the book to turn the couple’s two adopted children – Isabella and Connor – against Kidman, indoctrinating them in line with the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard on suppressors.

According to the reported Scientology canon, an oppressive person is a person recognized by the Church as an enemy and must be silenced or destroyed.

“When Tom and Nicole divorced, Miscavige was happy that Nicole’s” negative influence “was no longer distracting Tom, writes Rinder. “Thereafter, the voyage became more passionate in its public, public endorsement of Scientology and Miscavige.”

In her 2016 book, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, church fugitive Leah Remini wrote that after their father married Katie Holmes in 2006, she shared a ferry with Cruise and Kidman’s children. The actress allegedly asked the siblings if they had seen their mother often since their time parents’ divorce in 2001.

“Not if I have a choice,” Bella said. “Our mom is the king of SP.”