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Scientology 'auditioned' potential wives for Tom Cruise

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apana

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Usually I have too much dignity to link to an OMG yahoo article but I'll make an exception:

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/tom-cruise-had-secret-girlfriend-before-katie-holmes--report.html

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How Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes first met has always been shrouded in secrecy. Although it has been widely speculated that she was selected for him by the Church of Scientology, this is something that the organization has always denied. But if the rumor is true, Holmes wouldn’t have been the first actress to “audition” for the role. According to a new report in the October issue of Vanity Fair, just months before Cruise stepped out with Holmes in April 2005, his controversial religion was looking to find a girlfriend for him, preferably one that was already a Scientologist. VF special correspondent Maureen Orth reports that Scientology officials brought in a number of its members, who happened to be actresses, under the guise they were auditioning for a "new training film." The women were also asked, “What do you think of Tom Cruise?” Of the "several" that were interviewed, one landed the part: Iranian-born, London-raised Nazanin Boniadi.

"In a month-long preparation in October 2004, she was audited every day, a process in which she told a high-ranking Scientology official her innermost secrets and every detail of her sex life," Orth writes in Vanity Fair about the “General Hospital” actress. Boniadi, who one source tells the magazine had to sign a confidentiality agreement, “allegedly was told to lose her braces, her red highlights, and her boyfriend."

A month later, Boniadi, now 32, first met the “Mission: Impossible” star in New York City for a dinner at Nobu – but it wasn’t just a one-on-one date. Orth reports that “an entourage of Scientology aides” were also present and it was “when [Boniadi] first sensed that this was possibly going to be an arranged marriage.” After the meal, they went ice skating at Rockefeller Center, which had been closed to the public. At the end of the night, Boniadi and Cruise retired to a room at Trump Tower, “but according to several sources, they did not have sex.” Orth writes that he also told the brunette beauty, “I’ve never felt this way before” and then had her sign a second confidentiality agreement.

Boniadi supposedly fell in love with the actor, but the feeling wasn’t exactly mutual. Orth writes that Cruise once cruelly told Boniadi, “I get more love from an extra than I get from you.” Still, he moved her into his home (they shared a bedroom) and she was issued a credit card under the name of Cruise’s production company.

But her time at the superstar’s mansion was short-lived. In late January 2005, Boniadi was relocated to Scientology’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood – and was then told she would no longer be Cruise’s girlfriend because he “wants someone with her own power – like Nicole [Kidman],” according to Vanity Fair. When Boniadi asked why Cruise didn’t just break up with her in-person, she was reportedly told he was not to be disturbed. In addition, a Scientology official allegedly said, "Naz, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

After the Celebrity Centre, Boniadi was then sent to live at a Scientology facility in Florida, where she eventually broke down and confided to a pal about her brief relationship with Cruise – and she was punished for it. According to Orth’s sources, Boniadi was forced to scrub toilets with a toothbrush, clean bathroom tiles with acid, dig ditches in the middle of the night, and sell copies of Dianetics (the book written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard) – all which Scientology denies. "The Church does not punish people, especially in [that] manner,” a spokesperson told VF.

In April 2005, three months after Boniadi was relieved of her duties as Cruise’s girlfriend, Holmes made her debut on the actor's arm while he was promoting “War of the Worlds” in Europe. In November 2006, six months after the birth of their daughter Suri, the two married in a lavish ceremony in Italy. And on June 29, after five years of marriage, Holmes blindsided Cruise by filing for divorce while he was on a film set in Iceland just days before his 50th birthday. Less than two months later, the split was made official, with Holmes getting primary custody of 6-year-old daughter, Suri – which is all she wanted from Cruise.

Yikes I think I lost a lot of respect for Tom Cruise if this is true. She seems like a really nice gal and obviously beautiful but she got seriously rough treatment. Not that attractiveness is a prerequiste for being treated like a human, I'm just saying she is gorgeous. If any woman falls in love with you and then moves in, the least you can do is be nice to her. If she had fallen in love with me after a theoretical first date I can definitely say I would have given her compliments everyday and not made her clean the bathroom with acid. We use that clorox wand thing, it just drops off.
 

Lach

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At the end of the night, Boniadi and Cruise retired to a room at Trump Tower, “but according to several sources, they did not have sex.”

This setence gave me the image of several people standing around the bed watching them...
 
^^ yep.

Ugh. Sucks that her business is out there for everyone to talk about.

How much more evidence like this has to come out about the CoS before people stop saying its just like every other religion.
 

Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
Tom Cruise is such an anomaly. His real life is filled with so many strangeness and weirdness and by all account he might be the kind of person who I wouldn't be comfortable knowing but I just can't help but to like him in the movies. Like, just him being there makes a movie much more watchable.
 

Mistouze

user-friendly man-cashews
Wasn't this already a known fact? Like Scarlet Johanson went on a "date" with him, walked in a room full of people from the church of Scientology and just bailed out. Remember reading that.
 
Wasn't this already a known fact? Like Scarlet Johanson went on a "date" with him, walked in a room full of people from the church of Scientology and just bailed out. Remember reading that.
Yeah but now with this there are actually people corroborating it so that people can't laugh it off as fabricated tabloid drivel.. And for all we know that past story could've been exaggerated. But this? Nope. And now that this has been confirmed it makes that past story look a lot closer to the truth.
 

- J - D -

Member
I like to believe that the real Tom Cruise has been locked up somewhere in a Scientology Naval fortress - an imperceptible and impenetrable Sea Org - since 2004 and they replaced him with a convincing double for publicity/film purposes.
 

Dr.Acula

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No way this happened. I can see dinner-dates, but this bizarre "auditing, sexual history disclosure," and scrubbing toilets and being forced to sell books? No fucking way.
 

Kusagari

Member
No way this happened. I can see dinner-dates, but this bizarre "auditing, sexual history disclosure," and scrubbing toilets and being forced to sell books? No fucking way.

Scientology makes kids sign billion year contracts.

This is nothing.
 
No way this happened. I can see dinner-dates, but this bizarre "auditing, sexual history disclosure," and scrubbing toilets and being forced to sell books? No fucking way.
Google Scientology RPF
Also Google Scientology "sec check"

You will have your answers.
 
No way this happened. I can see dinner-dates, but this bizarre "auditing, sexual history disclosure," and scrubbing toilets and being forced to sell books? No fucking way.
Read some stuff on Scientology; lots of crazy weird stuff going on over there.
 

rekameohs

Banned
Also Google Scientology "sec check"

lol

Wikipedia said:
Whole Track Security Check

This long Sec Check, consisting of hundreds of questions, takes stock of the subject's entire time track, including their recollections of all of their past lives. It includes questions such as:

Did you come to Earth for evil purposes?
Have you ever smothered a baby?
Have you ever enslaved a population?
Have you ever destroyed a culture?
Have you ever torn out someone's tongue?
Have you ever zapped anyone?
Have you ever eaten a human body?
Have you ever made a planet, or nation, radioactive?
 

Dr.Acula

Banned
Okay, I missed the part where she was ALREADY a Scientologist. So she was already damaged goods. Katie Holmes, Scarlett Johansson, and the other rumoured wife candidates were not church members so they wouldn't have been on toilet scrubbing duty.
 
Yeah that sec check deals with past life bullshit but they use it for the immediate life as well. Basically to find out if you or anyone you know is doing anything not in the CoS's interests as well as to get stuff on you to blackmail you with should you ever want to speak out against the CoS.
 

Tookay

Member
This would be fascinating if people's lives weren't destroyed by this shit.

It's still fascinating.
 
Some friends and I went to a CoS to kill time before our movie was gonna show out of curiosity. They sat us infront a tv and a video summing up their beliefs played.

No idea they had stuff like this going on :O really interesting
 

DarkFlow

Banned
Google Scientology RPF
Also Google Scientology "sec check"

You will have your answers.

Whole Track Security Check

This long Sec Check, consisting of hundreds of questions, takes stock of the subject's entire time track, including their recollections of all of their past lives. It includes questions such as:

Did you come to Earth for evil purposes?
Have you ever smothered a baby?
Have you ever enslaved a population?
Have you ever destroyed a culture?
Have you ever torn out someone's tongue?
Have you ever zapped anyone?
Have you ever eaten a human body?
Have you ever made a planet, or nation, radioactive?

These seem like fairly stranded questions a religion might ask, no?
 
Stanley Kubrick's daughter became a Scientologist after Eyes Wide Shut. It broke Stanley's heart and I honestly think it played a part in killing him. I'm not talking conspiracy theories, I'm talking about the disappointment and stress.
 

pappe

Member
So basically, Katie sold her body, soul and life for a few million bucks to get married to Tom Cruise???
 

apana

Member
I was shocked that she is Iranian. She looks almost like a J Pop singer.

I think maybe it is just that picture. Here is another one:

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The way Tom Cruise was talking about her it sounded like he thought she was a burden and he wanted to keep away from her. Something does not compute...
 
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