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Tom, Katie and Suri: A Scientology Story

Exposé

Two subjects from the documentary 'Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief' open up about the faith’s most famous practitioner, Tom Cruise, and his Katie Holmes dilemma.

Marlow Stern

Senior Entertainment Editor

Updated Jul. 15, 2019 6:06PM ET / Published Mar. 06, 2015 5:15AM ET 
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People always knew Tom Cruise was a Scientologist, but they didn’t know the extent of it. That all changed in January 2008, when a video was released on YouTube featuring Cruise in a black turtleneck proselytizing like a man possessed.

The nine-minute video, shown at a 2004 International Association of Scientologists meeting, is set to the Mission: Impossible theme and reportedly was used to attract new converts to the faith.

“I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something you have to earn, because a Scientologist does,” says a committed Cruise. “He or she has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions.”

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