At Rolling Stone: Valerie Haney’s first interview since filing Scientology lawsuit
Just published at Rolling Stone, our latest coverage of Valerie Haney’s harrowing adventures in court since she filed a kidnapping and stalking lawsuit against the Church of Scientology in 2019.
But this time, Valerie herself is speaking out about what that experience has been like, and even better, what her thinking was behind the 19 people she nominated to be arbiters — including such figures as Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, and Shelly Miscavige — after it became plain she was not going to be able to get out of Scientology’s internal “religious arbitration.”
Part of the reason she included people like Shelly Miscavige and Tom Cruise as that she worked with them directly during her 22 years in Scientology’s Sea Org. And she told us new details about that which have never been published anywhere.
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“Scientology literally abused me my entire life, I finally escaped, and I’m trying to use the U.S. judicial system, and now they’re going, oh no, you need to go back and do everything that your abuser says.”
Ok Courts, pay attention to that.
Tony, excellent article in the Rolling Stone. Hubbard hated the judicial system and at the same time understood how to game it. Most all the policy’s and advice’s Hubbard gave were the result of his very intelligent and capable staff and acolytes. Those really smart followers are dead or gone. The current OSA staff and executives under Miscavige are a pale shadow of Hubbards “people”. IMO that is why scientology will continue to shrink and be exposed for their fraud and they will pay for their crimes. No amount of money can reverse the truth and the bad publicity it generates for the church.