Tom Cruise once again is the man of the week. This time in a video talking about Scientology.

In the video, the actor is speaking in what has been identified as a 2004 Scientology recruitment film. The clip, which was pulled from the video site but is still online, shows the star praising what he calls the "privilege" of being a Scientologist.

"It's something that you have to earn because a Scientologist ... has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions," says Cruise, 45, in the clip, where the "KSW" to which he repeatedly refers stands for "Keep Scientology Working." "Being a Scientologist," says Cruise, "you look at someone and know absolutely that you can help them."

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Cruise is an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology.  He became involved with Scientology in 1990 through his first wife, Mimi Rogers. Cruise has publicly said that Scientology, specifically the L. Ron Hubbard Scientology Study Tech, helped him overcome his dyslexia.

Cruise also said in an Entertainment Weekly interview that psychiatry "is a Nazi science" and that methadone was actually originally called Adolophine after Adolf Hitler, a myth well-known as an urban legend. In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Cruise said that "In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon... It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period". While Narconon claims to have a success rate over 70%, the accuracy of this figure has been widely disputed. Scientology is well-known for its opposition to mainstream psychiatry.

In January 2008 the Daily Mail (UK) reported that the forthcoming biography of Cruise by Andrew Morton (who broke the story of Princess Diana's unhappy marriage) would claim that Cruise was the de facto number two in the Church of Scientology. His next task, it is reported, would be to convert David and Victoria Beckham to the Church. This has been vigourously denied by lawyers for Cruise.
Beware Tom Cruise.
 


Publication date: 15 January 2008   

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