Scientology Helped ‘Distance’ Tom Cruise From Nicole Kidman Before Divorce, Former Member Claims in New Book: Details
usmagazine.comThe Church of Scientology contributed to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman‘s 2001 split by creating a “distance” between them, former member Mike Rinder claims in his new book.The issues allegedly began when Cruise, 60, and Kidman, 55, were filming the 1999 drama Eyes Wide Shut in London, Rinder writes in his memoir, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology.
After the Top Gun star began ignoring phone calls from the church’s leader, David Miscavige, amid his intense filming schedule, they allegedly sent a top church executive to the U.K.
in order to “audit” him.As a result of the process — which involves walking someone back through difficult times in their life in order to work through any negativity — Rinder claims that Cruise “was gradually drawn back into the world of Scientology.” The Jerry Maguire star’s rededicated focus on the Church “created a distance” between him and Kidman.Though the Oscar winner joined the Church of Scientology following her December 1990 wedding to Cruise, Rinder claims that she “never expressed particular eagerness for her Scientology courses or auditing.” He also alleges that Scientology officials disapproved of Kidman because her father was a psychiatrist, a profession that the church looks down on. “Had she not been Mrs.
Tom Cruise, she would not have been eligible to participate in OT levels at all due to her familial connection to psychiatry,” the Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath cohost writes.Miscavige, 62, and other Scientology leaders were so concerned about the Moulin Rouge star’s potential influence on Cruise that Rinder claims that they hired a private investigator to wiretap her phone.He later added, “When Tom and Nicole divorced,
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