Did he get to the part about Smurfette's identity as the terrible mother goddess?
About 10 years ago, after being introduced to the sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard's sect by ex-wife Mimi Rogers, Cruise had achieved the Operating Thetan III level of instruction (in which true believers are said to learn the story of the cosmic ruler Xenu).
The stress of learning - or believing? - that Xenu stacked his alien enemies in volcanoes, and then blew them up with H-bombs, was starting to wear on Cruise, according to one Scientology veteran who trained with Cruise.
He was "pretty screwed up," the source tells Kim Masters in Radar magazine. "He just got that pasty skin and that foolish look.
"He just wanted Scientology to be away from him. He wanted to do no more auditing [the church's mind-cleansing program], just nothing with any of that stuff, just go back to Hollywood."
Apparently worried that he was ready to bolt their Celebrity Center, his instructors are said to have backed off.
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This whole scientology thing is providing more entertainment than a general election. Of course, we suspect non-Catholic pundits may be making the same point about Catholicism soon (see, yet again, the Monsignor story below; we're still holding our breath and hoping it's not true).
