14 DAY TRIAL // Just a few days ago, it seemed that Scientology celebrity members had finally understood that being a public figure and a promoter of the cult don’t mix all that well, when, on the red carpet, Tom Cruise agreed to sign the mask of an Anonymous member from the organization that is on a self-imposed mission to reveal all the secrets of the cult. However, actress Bijou Phillips seems to have replaced Cruise in speaking publicly against all those who treat depression with drugs, instead of just learning to deal with it on their own.
Actress, singer and model Bijou has been a constant presence on the party circuit ever since she was in her late teen years, with at least one rehab visit under her belt and several media scandals, but that has not stopped her from patronizing others in an interview, Us Magazine is reporting. In doing so, she comes to join actor Tom Cruise who, a few years back, accused Brooke Shields of not being a fit mother for treating postpartum depression with drugs.
“Scientologist model Bijou Phillips went off on a tangent about the dangers of psychiatrists medicating depression during a recent interview with Paper Magazine. ‘My grandparents didn’t take any pills, and they were fine,’ Phillips said in the February issue of Paper. ‘Just buck up and get over it. Stop being such a [expletive] pansy.’ The budding actress frequents Scientology-sponsored events and spoke out against psychiatry and prescribing patients with medication for such mental illnesses as depression or anxiety.” Us Magazine writes.
This is not the first time that Scientology members speak against long-established medical practices, such as treating depression with prescription drugs. Nevertheless, Tom Cruise’s example is perhaps the most illustrative of the lot, since he has often talked about the cult either in interviews meant to promote his movies, or in several Scientology videos that made their way on the Internet.
Also in one of those videos, Cruise explains how there is no other entity more suitable to handle things than Scientology, much to the outrage of his fans and the audiences all over. “We are the authorities on getting people off drugs. We are the authorities on the mind. [...] We are the way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures. Now is the time. Being a Scientologist. People are turning to you. If you are a Scientologist, you see things the way they are, in all their glory, in all their complexity...” Cruise says in one such video that is meant to recruit more followers.