While I'm glad this story has legs out there, I still can't help but consider the obvious hypocrisy:
This is NEWS - the kind that sells papers (hint, hint, hint to the papers) with absolutely NO ONE but the cult complaining about it. But any attempt to expose Mormonism in the same way sparks an army of Romney-supporting Republicans to start screaming "bigotry"?
And by OPENLY engaging in this completely unethical deception, those same Republicans think they're going to, somehow, convince me to VOTE with them?
In your dreams, baby, in your motherfucking dreams,...
On September 2, Oscar-winning filmmaker and former Scientologist Paul Haggis wrote an e-mail to Showbiz 411 confirming the auditing took place. According to Vanity Fair, Boniadi, 32, was audited every day in October 2004 and was allegedly "told to lose her braces, her red highlights and her boyfriend" before meeting Cruise the following month in New York City. Though Boniadi did eventually fall in love with Cruise, 50, the actor's frequent public displays of affection and intense adoration became too much to bear, Orth's sources claim. Following a series of incidents with high-ranking Scientology officials, Boniadi's relationship with Cruise reached a turning point. She was eventually forced to leave Cruise's home, where she lived, and move into Scientology's Celebrity Centre. She was later transferred to another Scientology center in Florida.
In Haggis' e-mail, he claims to have known Boniadi for three years. "I met her through a mutual friend when I was doing my own personal research into the allegations against Scientology, before I wrote my letter of resignation," Haggis wrote. "Naz was embarrassed by her unwitting involvement in this incident and never wanted it to come out, so I kept silent. However I was deeply disturbed by how the highest ranking members of a church could so easily justify using one of their members; how they so callously punished her and then so effectively silenced her when it was done." "It wasn't just the threats; they actually made her feel ashamed, when all she had been was human and trusting," Haggis, 59, added.
Maybe it's just me, but "human and trusting" is NOT how I'd describe someone who was "told to lose,..her boyfriend" and she does it. If anything, it describes the cold, callous, and calculating nature of Nazanin Boniadi and the cult she was in towards other human beings - especially those who love them and they claim to love. (Haggis quit the cult because he couldn't stomach how the "church" felt about gays - a pretty large group, I'm sure, he didn't have a relationship with and/or doesn't personally know every member of,...)
It also puts the lie to the claim of "her unwitting involvement in this incident," and if you bother to consider what the boyfriend must have went through (as no one else seems to) being tossed aside for someone as insecure as Tom I-have-no-mind-of-my-own Cruise - the "man" that "Boniadi did eventually fall in love with," despite the fact Cruise, with all his wealth and power, couldn't even procure his own women - it's both shameful and damning.
"When a friend at a Scientology center in Florida, where [Nazanin] Boniadi was subsequently sent, asked why she was crying all the time, Boniadi broke down and told her about her relationship with [Tom] Cruise, which she had been forbidden to do. According to the knowledgeable source, the friend reported her. Boniadi’s punishment was to scrub toilets with a toothbrush, clean bathroom tiles with acid, and dig ditches in the middle of the night. After that she was sent out to sell Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics on street corners. Boniadi and her mother are no longer involved in Scientology."
Ha - "the friend reported her." Some "friend."
And I must say this story has no credibility with me, since I know L. Ron Hubbard had already long established:
Yessireebob, like Joseph Smith before him, L. Ron was a leader for the ages. I kid, I kid. No, actually Scientology has a long history of this kind of thing, including trying the "flirty fishing" trick on Gavin Newsom, the former NewAge mayor of San Francisco.
He, too, took the nookie and ran. (Check out Newsom's look. It says, "You're going to recruit me? In front of all these reporters? Fuck, I'm going to recruit you - to my cock!)
Anyway, Nazanin Boniadi's a cute chick, but pretty dumb, man. First she's used as a magic whore for Tom Cruise, and then she's scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush?
