As audiences take in Cruise’s latest hit, ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ top Scientology reporter Tony Ortega looks back on how the star became the Church of Scientology’s Maverick.
Kidman wasn’t a Scientologist, but she tried to fit in. Her former Scientology auditor, Bruce Hines, told me that in only a couple of years she was able to rocket up to an auditing level known as “OT 2,” which is pretty astonishing and suggests Kidman was probably putting in daily work to go up the “Bridge to Total Freedom.”But by 1992, Kidman changed her mind. She soured on Scientology, and not only pulled away from it but pulled Cruise with her.But by 1992, Kidman changed her mind.
Although he had broken up with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz earlier that year, Cruise was invited to help Miscavige open the new Madrid building, and he even gave a brief speech in Spanish, which you can. And it was also at this event that Cruise reportedly told Miscavige that he was having some trouble finding a suitable new girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Shelly Miscavige’s project had produced a winner: An attractive British-Iranian Scientologist-actress named Nazanin Boniadi was selected from the auditions, and she dated Cruise from October 2004 to January 2005, when, Alex Gibney reported in his HBO documentary, things soured. Nazanin admitted she was having a hard time understanding David Miscavige’s thick New Jersey accent, and it was giving her headaches. Scientology had Tommy Davis break up with her for Cruise.
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