14 DAY TRIAL // HBO’s documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” hit the Church of Scientology the hardest of all the projects meant to make public the inner workings of this cult. Nick Lister, who was featured in it because he worked years as Tom’s household servant, is speaking again, this time offering a good look at the actor’s true nature.
If you believed for a second that recent rumor that Cruise was considering defecting from Scientology so he could spend more time with his daughter Suri, who is most likely a Suppressive Person (SP) now, here’s this gem: Scientology ranks higher for Cruise than any member of the family.
His niece Jamie Lesavoy can vouch for that: she was kicked out of the family for 2 whole years and sent away after she was caught kissing a boy. She was 14 at the time.
Tom is a Scientologist to the core
According to Lister, as cited by Tony Ortega, Jamie was visiting Tom’s Los Angeles mansion one summer and invited her boyfriend over. They made out and the whole thing was captured by security cameras, with security chief bringing Tom in the loop immediately.
Tom’s ruling was that Jamie was guilty of behavior “unbecoming of a Scientologist and out-PR (creating a bad image for oneself or Scientology),” so she was sent away. As this was happening, her mother didn’t have a say in it - as neither did she later, when Jamie was barred from visiting the family over the holidays or even Christmas.
She was only allowed to speak with her mother on the phone, but those calls too were short and far in between.
Lister says she was sent to the Church’s Applied Scholastics facility in St. Louis, where she had to do the lower ethics conditions program: a step-by-step course that would enlighten her on what she had done wrong and how to not repeat the offensive pattern of behavior.
“Scientology’s lower ethics conditions are essentially a series of steps one does to make amends for having done wrong. Lower conditions can usually be completed in days or weeks. Jamie spent two years working on lower conditions before Tom decided she’d done enough and could be allowed back in the family,” Ortega writes.
The program is not like going to summer camp either, as revealed in the “Going Clear” documentary: people sent here live in squalid conditions and are starved to near-death, while tasked with doing filthy jobs like cleaning sinks with their tongue or toilet bowls with their toothbrush.
In between such humiliating moments, they’re audited several times a day, until their brains are reprogrammed to think like true Scientologists.
Tom Cruise is getting married again, allegedly
This is the world that Tom Cruise’s rumored future wife, his fourth, Emily Thomas, will enter if it’s true that he proposed to her in Morocco and she said yes.
Katie Holmes, who divorced Tom in 2012, supposedly managed to file the papers without him and Scientology goons finding out about it, by using burner phones and using tactics that would have done a justice fugitive proud.
Apparently, he wanted to ship their daughter Suri to Sea Org for her education within Scientology, and this was the tipping point for Katie.
Not one of Tom’s exes will talk about their experiences with the Church, which has further helped fuel reports that they were never positive. With stories like this one, of Tom pushing a close relative out of the family for the “unspeakable” act of kissing a boy, and the scare tactics employed by the Church on all those who defect and go public with dirt on then, it’s no wonder Tom’s wives avoid the topic.
