Tom Cruise started to pull away from Scientology while filming the intense Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut with then-wife Nicole Kidman in 1997, according to the new book A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology.
Former high-ranking church officer Mike Rinder writes that the star began to ignore Scientology head David Miscavige’s calls while filming in London. This allegedly prompted Miscavige to send Marty Rathbun, a top church exec, to the UK to audit Cruise a process through which the subject is walked through events in their life to relieve negativity and reach a level of clear .Cruise, Rinder writes, was gradually drawn back into the world of Scientology.”
However, this rededication allegedly “created a distance between and Nicole According to the book, Cruise distanced himself from Scientology while filming “Eyes Wide Shut.”
Kidman had been brought into the church by Cruise years before but “never expressed particular eagerness for her Scientology courses or auditing, . It didn’t help that her father was a psychiatrist. Had she not been Mrs. Tom Cruise, she would not have been eligible to participate in OT levels at all due to her familial connection to psychiatry.
With the church apparently feeling threatened by Kidman’s influence over their most prominent celebrity, Rathbun worked with [Hollywood lawyer] Bert Fields to hire infamous PI Anthony Pellicano to spy on Nicole and tap her phone,The couple adopted two children together, Isabella and Connor .Pellicano spent over a decade in prison for a host of offenses including wiretapping, racketeering, conspiracy and illegal possession of explosives and grenades.
The Church never ordered or participated in any illegal wiretapping, a church spokesperson told Page Six. Mike Rinder is an inveterate liar who seeks to profit from his dishonesty. He supports himself by orchestrating the harassment of his former Church and its leader through false police reports, incendiary propaganda and fraudulent media stories.
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