PopEater ran an interesting little gossip piece about Elizabeth Moss and Fred Armisen yesterday. According to their sources, it seems like all of this talk about Moss’s Scientology being the primary cause for their split isn’t quite the truth. Allegedly. According to Moss’s unnamed friends, Armisen’s unnamed friends are doing their own little smear campaign against Moss and her Xenu-affection because Camp Armisen doesn’t want the REAL reason for their split to come out. Hint: 23-year-old Abby Elliot, and Fred’s desire to bone her?

‘Mad Men’ star Elisabeth Moss filed divorce papers in Los Angeles to end her brief marriage to ‘SNL’er Fred Armisen just three days ago, and I’ve already learned that Fred’s friends are the ones feeding tabloid stories about her religion to try and sabotage the young actress.

One of Fred’s friends told Us Weekly that her ties to the Church of Scientology were the reason they split. “Her religion was as important to her as their marriage, if not more,” another pal told Us. “He could not get with it.”

However, Elisabeth’s friends tell me this had nothing to do with the breakup.

“Lizzie is trying really hard to handle this horrible divorce in a dignified manner,” an insider tells me. “She is heartbroken that Fred’s friends have run to the press leaking nasty stories about her and her beliefs when everyone knows Fred was the problem in this marriage.”

My sources tell me Elisabeth has asked her pals to “not get down in the dirt like him” and try to take the high road in the split.

But her friends add, “If these attacks on her continue, the real truth will come out and it isn’t going to be pretty.”

Since the split, Armisen hasn’t been brooding alone. He has already been linked with ‘SNL’ co-star Abby Elliot, 23, while Elisabeth has remained single.

[From PopEater]

I was initially impressed with Moss and her handling of the situation – when she and Fred announced their split, it sounded like they were both trying to be adults. And then news of his relationship with Abby broke less than a week later, and still, Moss took the high road. But now people are wondering if she’s a weird Friend of Xenu like Tom Cruise, and so she’s sending out her peeps to do some damage control. Either that, or Moss didn’t send her people out, but the Church of Scientology did, because they don’t want the bad press? Could be. Moss has turned out to be one of their better “gets” and I could see why they would want to protect her. She’s not batsh-t insane (Cruise), or boning dudes at spas (Travolta) or Jason Lee. Now I can’t wait for Tom Cruise to chime in. Yay!

Header: Elizabeth and Fred on August 3, 2009. Credit: WENN.