14 DAY TRIAL // Shortly after announcing that she was coming out with a line of weight loss products called Organic Liaison, Kirstie Alley came under serious fire online for setting up the company as a Scientology front. The evidence was all there, whoever wanted to know more only simply to look for it, the Anonymous group said. Putting on an appearance on the Today show, Alley has rubbished such allegations, saying she’s too “cheap” to hand part of the profits over to the religious cult.
As the video below will also illustrate, Kirstie was very firm about a connection between her Organic Liaison company and the church of Scientology, saying all reports suggesting there is one are not true. Not only that, but she’s doing this – coming out with weight loss products and documenting her own journey to a trimmer self in a new reality show, “Kirstie Alley’s Big Life” – to help other women as well and not to make money for Scientology.
Arguments used in the media that two of the executives listed with Organic Liaison are Scientologists and that the company’s headquarters are the same as those of the church are bogus, the actress said. “It’s such bull[expletive]. It’s not true. It’s not true. I’m the top executive. The address in Clearwater is my accountant, and he’s a Scientology Jew. I don’t know what to say to it. No, they don’t [Scientology doesn’t get a cut of the profits]. I’m way too cheap to do that,” Alley explained.
Roger Friedman of The Hollywood Reporter is not buying it, though, as he makes it clear in his latest Showbiz411 post. Facts are facts, and there’s no denying them without as much as pretending to offer solid arguments, Friedman states. And the facts here are that there is a certain connection between Organic Liaison and Scientology and Alley denying it is only making matters worse.
“Facts are facts, Kirstie. Two of your board members are Scientologists. One of them runs a Scientology-centric company. The address of your company in Clearwater, Fla., is the same as the World Institute of Scientology, not your accountant. And then there’s the accountant. On ‘Today,’ Alley called Saul Lipson a ‘Scientology Jew,’ and looked for a laugh. It verged on being anti-Semitic. She said her address in Clearwater was the same as Lipson’s. This is wrong, Lipson’s address is not in Clearwater, but Coral Springs, Fla. Furthermore: Alley’s ‘Scientology Jew,’ Mr. Lipson, is firmly a Scientologist. According to the website TruthAboutScientology.com, Lipson rose to the ranks of Operating Thetan 5 on June 1, 2004. It’s a 50-hour course and is described as ‘dangerous’ by critics,” Friedman explains.