Hopefully the twisted irony of a cult member/sympathiser/enabler being the lead in a series about….. Oh cult members and their world of sympathisers/enablers/enforcers, and the distastefulness of it all is finally starting to be noticed

Ms. B. Yes. I would call the C list musician Celebs.

Juliette Lewis. Beck. Elisabeth Moss. 2nd generation scientologists.

I’ve always liked John Travolta.

Back in the early 80s, before I got into Scientology I worked with and was close friends with a girl who was for several years the live in girlfriend of a then well known soap star actor. He was quite “hot” at the time, at the pinnacle of his career, very handsome, and btw, in real life, totally the opposite, personality wise, of the character he played on this soap. Anyway, Jane (not her name) and I worked together and were friends and I was at her and Luke’s (not his name) apartment quite a bit, invited to their friends parties, etc. etc. At one of these parties an actor on a rival soap to Luke’s soap was entertaining us with various Hollywood stories and John Travolta’s name came up. I began to gush because I liked him and just had the feeling, somehow, that he was a very decent sort of person. I didn’t know John Travolta, had never met him, just thought he’d been amazing in “Saturday Night Fever” , etc. Well this soap actor friend of Luke’s listened to me gush about Travolta for a while and then when he could get a word in edge-wise, said, quietly, “He’s gay”. “NO!”, I gasped. “I’m afraid so”, he replied. “How do you KNOW that?”, I asked. He said, “I met him”. “OK…You met him, and…” “I met him AND…” He paused, looking at me steadily. “He… hit on you?”, I asked. “Big time”, he nodded, in the same calm, quiet, matter of fact voice. Idiot me digested this for a while. John Travolta was gay. Tony Manero was gay. I had to process it. Meanwhile this extremely handsome soap actor who was younger than I was continued to regard me kindly and a little pityingly. He had just blown my movie star fantasy crush to smithereens, and he looked like he regretted having done it. He put a gentle hand on my shoulder and for all the world like an uncle or an older brother, said in a very tender tone, “I’m so sorry. He’s definitely gay”.

Slight disagreement: Travolta, IIRC, was a TV celeb before scientology latched on to him.

In fact, I can’t think of a single scientologist who went and got famous. AFAICT, scientology was always a drag on a Hollywood career

That guy sounds SO ignorant
— and is SO racist. Playing to the crowd, I guess; trying to sound like just regular folk.

BIGOT

Yeah, scientology has come to a point where the less ‘celebrities’ say, the less damage control OSA has to do. After they get past the “it works for me” pablum to answering the obvious next questions, they’re out of their depths and flub it. scientology could use a REAL, effective Spokesman like Mike was for so long. They NEED one, and don’t have anyone in the junior leagues working their way up to being able to handle the tough interviews. I dunno: Maybe ChanMan is their best hope (shudder).

Sorry? WHAT career did Danny Masterson have? I’ve never seen him ‘acting’ and certainly not heard him DJ. AFAICT, it’s only by his assertions that he’s anything but a rapist of the lowest sort.

Yes, John. Come home to people who love you.

“…Other celebrity musicians are Cate Ceberano, Edger Winter, Stanley Clarke and Doug E. Fresh. I hope to see them after the fall of Miscavige’s organization.”

And how can we forget the Jive Aces and legendary rapper Chill E. Beans. Not hearing much from them these days either.