re: Tom Cruise leaving Church of Scientology

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The former employee from the HBO documentary said flat out that Cruise was a perv and would never leave.

Travolta could be next.

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Pervertology

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why is she always carried around like she is still a baby?

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They'll find some other big name celeb to brainwash and make them the fave of their cult.

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The HBO doc on scientology is really interesting FWIW. Bullshite, but interesting nonetheless.

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Confirmed Scientologists

All of the Church’s active, dyed-in-the-wool celebrity members, and those who were members at the time of their deaths.

Kirstie Alley [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Anne Archer (center) with David Miscavige (left). Image via Church of Scientology. [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Jennifer Aspen [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

James Barbour [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Lynsey Bartilson [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Beck: Perhaps the highest-profile Scientologist this side of Cruise and Travolta, Beck kept quiet about his lifelong involvement with the church—both his parents are Scientologists—until 2005. When New York mag asked about his involvement with the church in 2012, Beck was equivocal, acknowledging his lifelong affiliation but saying “It’s just something that I’ve been around.”

Catherine Bell [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Karen Black [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Sonny Bono: Bono began a relationship with the church in the 1970s, his assistant told the New York Post in 1999, “because Cher wanted him to go”—odd, considering that Cher, who is not a Scientologist, once told Access Hollywood that she “didn’t understand” her ex-husband’s religion. In the same Post article, Sonny’s widow Mary Bono said that Sonny “did try to break away [from the church] at one point,” in the early ‘90s, “and they made it very difficult for him.”

Stephen Boyd: Ben-Hur actor Boyd, who died in 1977, was an OT IV, according to George Malko’s book Scientology: The Now Religion. According to Fantastic Voyage co-star Raquel Welch, Boyd was also gay and closeted.

Grant Cardone: Cardone, an author and motivational speaker who hosted the short-lived Kitchen Nightmares-style reality show Turnaround King, is an OT VIII—Scientology’s highest auditing level— and enthusiastic L. Ron Hubbard disciple. According to longtime Scientology chronicler Tony Ortega, ardone once embarked on an email campaign to slander Milton Katselas, another high-ranking Scientologist, at the behest of megalomaniacal church leader David Miscavige. (Katselas, a well-known acting coach, was punished for not being “loyal enough to the new Miscavige regime and way of doing things,” Ortega writes.)

Nancy Cartwright: The voice of Bart, Nelson, Todd Flanders, and Ralph Wiggum on The Simpsons has been a Scientologist since 1989. In 2007, Cartwright made a $10 million donation to the church. Two years later, she drew fire for using the Bart voice in a Scientology-promoting robocall, which is just as unsettling as it sounds.

Kate Ceberano [Wiki] [source]

Erika Christensen [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Jeff Conaway: Conaway, who played Kenickie in the film version of Grease, joined after co-star and Scientologist poster boy John Travolta “introduced him to the church, giving him an auditor and a library of Scientology books,” according to Business Insider.

Stanley Clarke [Wiki] [source] It is widely rumored that the seminal jazz fusion group Return to Forever broke up because bandleader and devout Scientologist Chick Corea was dismayed that Stanley Clarke had left the church. According a Facebook post by guitarist Al Di Meola, Clarke later rejoined "to get on Chick's good side," and a 2012 press release lists Clarke as a member.

Chick Corea [Wiki] [source]

Tom Cruise with David Miscavige. Image via AP.

The smiling, shrink-hating, spy-hiring, motorcycle-riding, and couch-jumping mascot of Scientology, Cruise has been the church’s biggest star since joining at the behest of then-wife Mimi Rogers in 1990. Since then, his exploits in the name of Scientology have been too numerous to recount here; in 2012, he and Katie Holmes divorced in part because Holmes didn’t want the couple’s daughter Suri to become involved with the church.

Sky Dayton: EarthLink and Boingo Wireless founder Dayton attended the Scientology-affiliated Delphian boarding school in Oregon. He is identified as a Scientologist in Lawrence Wright’s “The Apostate,” the New Yorker article that became the book that became Going Clear, HBO’s Scientology documentary. According to Fox News, Boingo was named after the band Oingo Boingo, whose founder Richard Elfman is also a Scientologist.

Eddie Deezen: Like Jeff Conaway, Grease actor Deezen began to pursue Scientology after meeting Travolta. “Seeing what an extraordinary guy [Travolta] was, just such a nice person, such a kind human being, did make me think, but it was probably my first impulse of curiosity concerning Scientology,” he told Vice in 2012, adding that he hasn’t “been very active [in the church] lately.”

Jason Dohring [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Robert Duggan [Wiki] [source]

Bodhi Elfman [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Jenna Elfman at the opening of Nashville’s Scientology church and Celebrity Centre. Image via Church of Scientology. [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Richard Elfman: Father of Bodhi and father-in-law of Jenna, Richard Elfman is identified by Tony Ortega as “an avid member of the church” “to this day.” It should probably be noted here that Danny Elfman, the film composer and Richard’s brother and partner in Oingo Boingo, is not a Scientologist, despite the family ties.

Stacy Francis [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Doug E. Fresh: The ‘80s rapper/beatboxer has a track on “The Joy of Creating,” an L. Ron Hubbard-tribute album. Fresh’s contribution is truly a joy.

Peaches Geldof: The late daughter of rock-star/activist Bob Geldof went public with her Scientology membership shortly after Gawker posted one man’s account of a heroin-fueled one-night stand with Geldof that ended at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre.

Isaac Hayes onstage at a 2005 Celebrity Centre gala. Image via Getty. Soul legend Hayes famously left his gig voicing South Park’s “Chef” after refusing to participate in an episode that skewered Scientology.

Gary Imhoff [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Mark Isham [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Jocelyn Jones [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Kimberley Kates [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Milton Katselas: Katselas, who coached everyone from Burt Reynolds to Giovanni Ribisi—also a Scientologist—is called “the best acting teacher in the world” in a 2007 New York Times profile. he same profile alleges that some actors have left Katselas’ classes “because of the unspoken pressure they felt to join the Church of Scientology.”

Vivian Kubrick [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Jason Lee: Lee, star of mid-aughts sitcom My Name Is Earl, is a Scientologist, as is Earl co-star Ethan Suplee. Frequent Earl guest Giovanni Ribisi is a Scientologist, and so is Juliette Lewis, who appeared in one episode. According to a TV critic at the Guardian, the plot of the entire series has shades of Hubbard-inspired allegory.

Geoffrey Lewis [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Juliette Lewis: Musician and actress Lewis, who was raised in the church, told a Daily Beast reporter last year that the public is unkind to Scientology because “The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time—Tom Cruise—coming out against anti-depressants and Ritalin and just saying, ‘Hey, why don’t you put a warning label on there?’ The thing about Scientology is it is anti-drug in that you’re seeking relationship or communication tools—simple basics on how to live better.”

Christopher Masterson [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Danny Masterson onstage at a 2005 Celebrity Center benefit event with fellow Scientologist Laura Prepon. Image via Getty. [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

Jim Meskimen [Wiki] [IMDb] [source]

more: too long to list

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I bet most of the members want to leave, but can't because of blackmail.

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Who is the scientologist that is downvoting?

It is alright, we will accept you.

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