Juliette Lewis has a new interview with the Daily Beast to promote a number of projects. She’s promoting a 2015 tv show, Secrets & Lies, which sounds like a True Detective knockoff. Juliette will play a lead detective alongside Ryan Phillipe. In a movie called Kelly & Cal, she’ll play a washed-up punk singer who goes though an “existential crisis” after the birth of her first child. The “punk” label isn’t too far off base for anyone who’s listened to Juliette’s music.
Most of the time when I cover Juliette, I try and forget that she’s a Scientologist. She’s making it difficult this time because she discusses the CO$ in this interview. There are other topics too, but Juliette is so brainwashed by this cult. This discussion makes me forget that she’s a talented character actress who has held her own onscreen against a number of A-list men:
On life after 40: “I think the big thing, for me, is facing my parents’ mortality. That is horrifying, and I’m still dealing with it. There’s just so much wrapped up in it. My Dad is older and has Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and it’s taken me seven years to accept it–and I still haven’t accepted it. I was going through that, and with my band, I’d been playing music for six years, but I realized that I still loved acting, storytelling, and characters, so that was doing my head in because I didn’t know how to balance both. I was struggling to strike a balance.”
Ageism in Hollywood: “With age, there’s definitely that stuff. But I don’t think so, because I’ve tried to stay pretty disengaged from the politics of Hollywoodism. I’ve always been an outsider. I’ve always been attracted to roles that would challenge me, and that wouldn’t come around very often. I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself. I haven’t made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I’ve moved people emotionally, the directors I’ve been able to work with, and the stories I’ve been a part of.”
She was a movie “Cassandra” with A-listers: “Yeah, this is now part of my history that I can say we all came up together–Brad, Leo, Johnny Depp, George Clooney. It’s so funny. I try not to be cynical about Hollywood, but I remember that George’s first lead was From Dusk Till Dawn and, since he was coming from television, the studio was questioning, ‘Well, can he be the lead in a movie?’ And you’re thinking, ‘Dude! Are you kidding? Have an imagination!’ It’s amazing to think that it was even a question.”
Misconceptions against Scientology: “I’ll get all conspiratorial on you, and I’m just going to throw this out: The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time–Tom Cruise–coming out against anti-depressants and Ritalin and just saying, ‘Hey, why don’t you put a warning label on there?’ The thing about Scientology is it is anti-drug in that you’re seeking relationship or communication tools–simple basics on how to live better. So, when Tom came out about that, I’ve never seen someone get torn down so hard, and they still brutalize him with Scientology pieces to this day. It’s a religious philosophy and self-help movement. And you’ll never see a truthful word written about it in mainstream media.”
Getting recognized by fans: “It trips me out when 20-year-olds come up to me on the street and are like, ‘I loved Natural Born Killers!’ But then, I remember that when I was younger I was listening to music from the ’60s. And in the ’90s, with the exception of The Pixies, I was listening to trippy music from two decades prior.”
[From Daily Beast]
Bless her heart. Juliette doesn’t even realize that Tom Cruise was torn down for reasons other than holding an opinion against psychiatry. It would be fine if he simply didn’t believe in taking Prozac for himself. It would have been okay if Tom had simply suggested a warning label on meds. The problem was the way Tom said this stuff. Tom was an unhinged mess full of pointed fingers, angry postures, and name-calling. It was Tom’s way or no way at all. Glib!
One positive thing about this interview: At least the journo didn’t ask her any questions about her romance with Brad Pitt. Juliette has to field that stuff every time she promotes a project. Maybe that topic would have been preferable to Juliette throwing out a conspiracy theory on the media and CO$. She tried to sound rational by using the word “conspiratorial,” but that doesn’t make L. Ron Hubbard’s scripture any less loony.
Photos courtesy of WENN
oh, juliette. I know you can; Leah did it. C’mon, girl.
People have always told me that I look like her. Noooooooooooooooooo! :/// I don’t accept it. Anyway LOL at Scientology 4 ever.
I’d take that as a compliment, she’s very pretty.
I would too; she’s always been beautiful. She still is, and I love that she seems to be aging somewhat naturally—she’s not all messed up with fillers and such. I’ve always loved her as an actress. I’m just going to choose to overlook her CO$ comments.
I don’t think she’s remotely attractive, let alone pretty. OTOH, she is a talented actress. She was excellent in “Natural Born Killers” and she gave a very good performance in “Kalifornia”.
I think she’s quite pretty. She gets better looking with age, which is a gift. It doesn’t look like she’s had ‘work’ done.
Ok, maybe she gets better with age. And I guess her body is great. I find her quite repulsive tho, it’s probably something about her voice or face…. Or the way she says things
you must be lovely to look at then – and, if you look enough like her you could make dough making ‘appearances’ even have your own band – Juliette and The Tongues.
Because it couldn’t possibly be that a cult sends people to do hard labor on a boat and worship aliens who levitate. Nope. No way.
Worshipping aliens, worshipping an invisible God, whatever – all religious belief is equally loony when you break it down.
That L.Ron Hubbard explicitly stated he was starting his own religion specifically to make money(!) makes you wonder how CO$ has any adherents at all, but where Scientology really comes into its own as an evil cult is with the forced labour, isolation from families, restricting medical treatment, illegal hacking, libelling critics, pyramid scheming, using confession tapes as blackmail, etc…
If they were quietly trying to shoo away their engrams I don’t think anyone would have the slightest problem with it.
Didnt they find some kind of anti-schizophrenia drug (I forget which one) in LR Hubbard’s system after her died but COS covered it up b/c it would kill every theory he wrote about?
I know I read that somewhere but dont know if it was ever proven to be fact.
No idea about that, Macey.
There is a good Ted Talk on Netflix from the grandson of Hubbard. It’s interesting because he wants to stay far away from the “religion.”
I came thisclose to ignoring your comment but felt compelled to point out how offended I am by it. Maybe it’s the increasing number of times that I’m seeing religion or religious people get mocked on this site, you’re not the first. Not everyone who is religious is a fundamentalist or “loony”, as you so casually assume. I have my religion which is my refuge in life, which I live by without infringing on anybody else’s rights, trying to convert anyone or judging anybody for their lives and choices and would appreciate it if you didn’t make such sweeping statements like that. What you believe and live is your choice as it is mine but don’t look down on something that doesn’t seem logical to you.
ETA: The mockery I was referring to comes from the comment board and not the bloggers who write the articles.
Props to knockknock. I don’t go around saying people who have no spiritual beliefs are loony, so please don’t do it to those of us who do.
don’t forget ngeigent homicide re the numerous unneccesary deaths of members who had physical ailments but were denied medical care and members who had severe mental illnesses, but were denied medication, went psychotic and ended up murdering people. Google Scientology murder and see what comes up. A lot!
All religions are businesses.
Cos and Mormons are so recently founded,the facts speak loud.
@Knockknock,
I feel your pain about the slant some posters take on this site, but what Tapioca was saying is that if one takes the beliefs of all religions at face value (based on their own books), its all out there. As a non-believer, I don’t see the difference between believing in space aliens to believing that god sent his son to die for our sins. Couldn’t he have just made us SINless? Or at the very least not made anything we did, SINful?
Both, IMO, take an enormous amount of suspension of disbelief. But because Christianity (and all the rest) are older, that makes them true? Because Scientology and Mormons are new, that makes them fake? That is what is loony, IMO. The way people who follow the older established religions call out the newer ones. Forgetting their history of being persecuted for believing. And forgetting their religion doesn’t require proof either, just faith.
“Golden tablets? That’s nuts! A talking bush? Now THAT I believe.” see?
Honestly, my eyes have bugged out of my head when I’ve heard my Christian friends ridicule Scientology for their crazy beliefs about aliens and whatnot…but believe in a risen-from-the-dead son of god that will let you into a magical kingdom when you die but ONLY if you believe in him. I mean, come on. It’s one thing if you put Scientology down for its obvious cash-grabbing and unethical cultiness, but any Christian/Muslim/Hindu/whatever person that laughs at the alien stuff needs to GTFO because their beliefs are right up there in WTFery.
to Knockknock and smoochie. I think when people talk about religion being “loony” they’re talking about the loud ones who hate everybody who isn’t Christian while acting in the most un-Christian way possible; spouting hatred and bigotry. Everything the exact opposite of what Jesus taught. We all know there are sincere Christians, but the loud un-Christians have tainted the name “Christian” the same way ISIS has tainted the reputation of Islam. Like the old spiritual says, “Everybody talkin’ bout Heaven ain’t goin’ there.”
I doubt anyone recognizes her on the street. And the less she says about Xenu the better.
Sure. It has nothing to do with the horror stories shared by those who managed to leave, the “religious philosophy” charging $$$$ to learn the beliefs, the stories of people who have been cut off by family members, etc.
I can imagine that from the inside it’s hard to see clearly, and I think she was born into it, but she’s just wrong here.
Yup. Def not about forced abortions, slave labor, disappearing people, children being refused a proper education and destroyed families and lives. It’s all about big business. Yup.
Well. It is about big business and shady, sharp practices by that big business, in a way. It’s just that the business is a giant psychobabble pyramid scheme! Pharma companies are shady as hell, but they do also produce products of huge value. COS… not so much.
Hate might be too strong a word, more like a lack of respect but that has more to do with the CO$ being a crazy cult than anything else.
Tom Cruise was only advocating for warning labels? I remember none of that. I seem to recall an epidemic of glibness.
You clearly haven’t studied the history of psychiatry.
lol, forgot about that.
A man walks into his doc’s office wearing nothing but a layer of Saran Wrap. The doc says, “Clearly I can see your nuts”.
Wait, what?
Pa rum pum
Pity Cruise didn’t study the history of Scientology. Then again, perhaps the free domestic staff, builders, and luxury goods meant he didn’t see the need – any faith that’s just that generous to its followers must be well-meaning, right?
I seem to recall him saying that Brooke Shields was weak for taking an antidepressant to cope with her postpartum depression. Things like that. Much more than just warnings on labels.
That’s what I thought. Thanks GNAT.
It was a lot of things – $ci essentially teaches that psychiatric disorders are a result of all the thetans, and (in so many words) that instead of using drugs to help manage these disorders someone should just audit and try to get their thetan levels down. This includes depression, ADD, Autism (if you remember there were a lot of rumors about Jett Travolta and has parents refusal to accept a diagnosis), and even drug addiction. Their ‘rehab’ program, Narc Anon, is SUPER sketchy. People have died in their rehab facilities.
Essentially, Cruise is holding himself up as an expert on medical issues, which is incredibly dangerous.
How many of these $cibots – who profess to be medical and psychiatric specialists – graduated from high school?
I don’t recall him saying jack about warning labels; I DO recall him attacking Brooke Shields for having post-partum depression and actually getting it treated medically, and I do recall him saying all sorts of other things that were based on as much education and data as the idiotic utterances from the likes of Rob Schneider and Jenny McCarthy
Is there a medication that DOESN’T come with warning labels? You pick up a prescription and it comes with a printed off pamphlet of warnings about that particular medication. Morons.
The moment he turned me off was when he, a non-child bearing entity, suggested that Brooke Shields was wrong for taking anti-depressants for her postpartum. He suggested she exercise and take vitamins to ward off the baby blues. Sorry, no.
I do wish she’d at least even consider reading about why people protest Co$. Read up about it at http://www.xenu.net, all the deaths, the broken marriages, enforced abortions, child slave labour, prison camps…the list goes on and on.
. . . and the suicides from a shot being fired from a rifle to the back of the head.
Yes… You and the rest of CO$ know THE TRUTH. Media = pharmaceuticals. Sure.
Funny that people who are brainwashed assume that others are just as incapable of independent thought, and must be told by (in this case) the media/pharma companies what to think about everything. Including Tom Cruise.
And, dum-dum, medications such as Prozac and Ritalin have safety warnings on them. Have had for years. The warnings change as more information is gathered about the medications and their effects. That’s how science works – it’s not afraid of being wrong and changing.
Of course, we are the ones brainwashed by the pharmacutical companies….not the Scientologists by their cult leaders…right!!!!
+1
Of course!
Of course, Cruise is the epitome of a perfectly sane human being. Oh, wait..
Damn, and I was thinking the psychiatrist helped me through my depression. Must have dreamed that. Nevermind, Tommy knows best.
To escape all this, Tom thinks you just need to exercise more and take more vitamins–oh wait, aren’t the pharmaceuticals making the vitamins, too? This is giving me a headache (going to find the excedrin for sweet pharmaceutical relief)
Besides, we all know that his various cosmetic “procedures” certainly weren’t “drug free”.
She just strikes me as someone who is not that bright, or at least severely emotionally stunted. I can’t explain her comments in any other way.
Even the part about not accepting her father’s illnesses over a 7 year period is insane. It must be extremely painful for her to see her father being medicated with drugs from the big bad pharms, if indeed she thinks the pharms are such a problem. Because if he has either of these diseases and someone is actually looking out for him, he is taking multiple medications. My mom has Parkinson’s and takes the bare minimum, and it’s still quite a few pills.
You’re assuming she has no say in her father’s healthcare at this point, and that he is receiving proper medical treatment. Given what those Co$ loons are capable of, I wouldn’t make that assumption.
I definitely think that is a risk, but from her statements, I’m guessing that she is not very involved. It would be a full time job, and she honestly seems too immature to handle it. If she’s influencing his care by advocating that he not receive medication, it would be cruel in my opinion. Those diseases are horrible enough *with* the medication.
She’s a second gen CO$, so it wouldn’t surprise me if her father specifically refused to have that kind of treatment prior to getting ill.
I actually think what she said about her parents’ aging and her father’s illness was insightful. I’m in the same boat in that I find it hard to accept my parents’ slowing down and overall declining health. I still think of them as the same energetic parents I’ve always had and then once in a while it hits me that my dad especially is truly elderly.
+1, esmom.
These are the things that keep me up at night–worrying about what will happen to my parents.
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I hear you, TOK. Although my sister recently let me off the hook somewhat, worry-wise, by insisting that my parents sell their house and move into a nice condo three doors away from her. So now I mostly just feel guilty that I wasn’t so selfless!
But she’s talking about a parent with debilitating diseases. It is hard to come to grips with aging parents, and I do sympathize with that, but a parent with high needs snaps one into reality pretty quickly. To me, saying that she can’t handle those diagnoses after 7 years is striking, because someone she has a parent with high needs and significant limitations.
Josephine, I took her comments to mean that he has those conditions but he might not have declined terribly yet, which really does make it hard to accept. My father in law has had Parkinson’s for decades and it’s barely noticeable because it’s well-controlled. My friend’s dad was lucid for years after being diagnosed with Alzheimers. Not only is it hard to imagine the inevitable outcome, it’s really scary knowing the clock is ticking.
I remember when one of the celeb Scientologists was out and about, claiming that things like AIDS don’t really exist, that all “illness” is just a state of mind. Perhaps the seven years were because it took her that long to actually get that you can’t will away dementia. On a non snark level, don’t disagree that it can take time just to accept a parent’s mortality or serious health issues. I hope her father is getting the treatment and care he deserves as a human, despite the beliefs of this cult and its Kool Aid drinking adherents.
No, she’s not that bright. She was probably educated in one of the CO$ schools. Kids who escaped the cult have said they came out of it barely literate.
I love how many commentators on this site now know so much about the evils of Co$. It’s really come along in the last couple of years. Thanks to Katie a lot for that.
And again, The Underground Bunker is a great place to check out for anything you need to know about Scientology.
Yes! The Underground Bunker! Tonyortega.org, the best site to learn all about the human rights abuses and much more evil shenigans of the COS.
No, I’ve know about COS for over 25 years. I was approach by some members in college. I talked to them over a period of time, went to their facility but never considered joining. I bought their books and read them, found them to be ludicrous and dangerous.
But Tommy Boy did himself and COS no favors, worst thing he ever did was fire Pat Kingsley. She kept the crazy under tight wraps.
Juliet is a second generation scientologist so facts are probably not going to penetrate years of brainwashing.
I never really liked her, but she looks great in the red dress. There are plenty of people that don’t support many pharmaceutical drugs that are not Scientologists. Scientology is still a cult and quite a scary one. She’s just trying to make gullible people rethink it all.
I respectfully disagree; she is brainwashed and spouting the COS party line. It is really quite sad.
Mmmm, yes. My hatred (and it is hatred) of Co$ is because of big pharma’s influence. It has nothing at all to do with their staggering laundry list of human rights violations, committed while cowering falsely behind the shield of the First Amendment.
It worked out so well for Travolta’s son didn’t it?
Thank you, Bedhead, for calling it a cult and not a “religion.” You have to PAY to be a Scientologist – endlessly. Juliette undoubtedly gets VIP treatment, but I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars she has thrown away. I can’t understand why anyone would believe a single word from L Ron Hubbard. They really must shut down their brains – if they have any.
Here’s a true story: Back in the good/bad old days – she cheated and had an affair on Brad Pitt when they were engaged – with a gross old guy. She was off her head on coke (or whatever was going) most days – and this ‘old guy’ was in to that scene too – Brad wasn’t. That was the end of them. She broke Brad’s heart.
Brad shouldn’t have been dating a kid anyway. No way do I believe Brad wasn’t into that scene. He dated an immature teen when he was a grown man but he wasn’t into that bad drug scene. Mmmk
I agree… you know who should have to answer those questions? Brad Pitt… who, at 26, was living with a 16 year old… I’m generally very open minded and laid back, but even for me, that’s quite a reach.
Classic actors’ line: “l’ve always been attracted to roles that challenge me.” *rolls eyes*
Yeah, sure. Look, I think pharmaceutical companies are horrifyingly powerful and personally, I am very VERY careful about any medication, prescribed or not. On the other hand, without them, my father would be long gone. I digress. What I’m trying to say is, the woman is brainwashed. I feel for her. Evil big pharma or not, a cult is a cult is a cult.
I agree that big pharma has a great deal of lobbying influence. That said, this completely avoids the reality that books have been written by ex-members who have no financial backing by big pharma. Small websites, not supported by their ads, or through connections, have made the same type of claims against them. I suppose it’s easier to market the negativity as only being generated through a mega-conspiracy, rather than addressing the abuse claims specifically.
Isn’t avoiding reality part of their motto? Aliens! I can’t even …
You’re right. This is such a conversation killer and it’s used by all cults or radical movements. “You don’t see the big picture, WE know the truth! You’re being manipulated, therefore all criticism is invalid. LIES!” Ugh, whatever. I’m pretty sure we’re all being manipulated in countless ways every days so as soon as someone is convinced they’re the only enlightened one, I’m out. I wouldn’t even care what crazy celebs do with their money if this frickin’ cult didn’t ruin people lives. I’m SO happy our governments calls a spade a spade. They’re not a religion, they’re a dangerous cult.
Governments and political parties use the same exact tactic. It’s a simultaneous deflection and turn toward going offensive instead of being defensive.
I just can’t even listen to anyone that is in with the C$S, Im sorry but there has to be some kind of mental issue in anyone that not only gives money to this cult but actually believes the bs they spew.
Isn’t that the MO of any cult, preying on people who feel like something’s missing in their lives? The most vulnerable are probably the biggest targets. I definitely feel like Tom Cruise was preyed upon when he was young and alone in Hollywood, needing a place to belong.
yep, same for the religious zealots too. I know a lot of them recruit future ‘members’ by handing out brochures and giving their speeches near AA and other rehab type places.
One thing I do like that she says, “At least I didn’t build my career on my looks.” I think that is a smart observation. I think there are some actresses who want to believe they have a career built on their acting but really when you take a look at their career you realize they are built primarily on their looks. Meg Ryan, for instance.
I’m not a huge fan. However, as a captive to the Encore Channels, “When Harry met Sally” was a great rom com. Sure, she had the cute pixie girl look, but her acting was also very good in that film.
I don’t get the “we don’t believe in drugs” comment. So if she or a loved one was suffering from cancer or diabetes (not to mention surely her dad has benefitted from medication for his conditions) they’d try to tough it out without meds and just use “simple tools to try to live better?” Granted I know she’s far from alone in this thinking but the insistence that mental illness is not biological in origin just like other illnesses just kills me.
I think they allow for medical intervention, but consider psychiatry and use of pharmaceuticals for mental health problems as verboten. If I recall correctly, they don’t believe in mental health issues as a medical condition or part of reality at all. I believe it has something to do with aliens in the body. Someone more familiar could address this.
Maybe they’re worried that if their people get help for untreated mental illness they’ll eventually be strong enough to leave?
In any case, this isn’t just a CO$ attitude. My mom’s best friend’s son has struggled in recent years with debilitating anxiety and depression and survived a suicide attempt and she recently said “I don’t get it, he was always so together.” She’d never say something like that about someone struggling with other diseases. Grr.
I’m not familiar with the specifics re CO$ but I do know that yes, some people would rather die than, say, get a blood transfusion. Jehova’s Witnesses anyone? One side of my family is full of them (CRAZY people) and yeah, one relative refused surgery because they wouldn’t do it unless he signed the form stating that he would allow for a transfusion in case was necessary. Nope. Wouldn’t do it.
I work at a kidney transplant clinic. I kid you not, the Jehova’s Witnesses will bank their blood for surgery while accepting another person’s organ.
After contemplating your comment, I think there is a huge disconnect between her comment on drugs for diseases of the mind, in terms of mental health issues, and the fact that her father has Alzheimer’s. She must accept, on some level, that the Alzheimer’s has a physiological component, so it’s kind of strange that she can’t quite grasp that other conditions of the brain/mind might also have the same connection. Unless she thinks her father isn’t trying hard enough to dispel whatever is occurring in his brain?
*expel
Yeah, I don’t know, I agree. That mindset of people who are depressed just need to “snap out of it” is so deeply rooted, and not just in her cult. Sadly I think people can’t truly understand it unless they’ve lived through it and witnessed how psychopharmacological treatments are legit and often lifesaving. And those who try to “tough it out” can end up marginalized or dead.
A neurologist who once treated my son said that in modern medicine, compared to infectious diseases, for example, psychiatry is still in the dark ages.
Sadly, we are still in the dark ages, or moving back toward them for infectious diseases, as well. There is still an abundance of antibiotics used in chicken and cattle feed because it plumps the animals up. Superbugs are appearing at alarming rates. No pharm companies are developing new antibiotics because they don’t see them as killer money makers. And look how long it has taken the world to get involved in the Ebola epidemic to contain the outbreak. The complacency and greed will kill us.
Kiddo, I agree. Actually he used that example about 12 years ago, I wonder what analogy he might use now. I got pretty well acquainted with the infectious disease dept at our local hospital last spring when my son was there for severe pneumonia and the conversations I had with the doc who treated my son made my hair stand on end. They figured out it was a relatively new superbug that caused his pneumonia and it was frightening to be in the hospital and see him getting far worse before he finally started to get better.
Esmom, sorry you had such an up close and personal relationship with this situation. Is he doing well now in general? No long term repercussions?
Kiddo, he’s perfectly fine, thanks for asking. Super fit and healthy, which I think helped his recovery a ton. A little PTSD I think from the whole experience, which really was harrowing. He caught a cold a couple weeks ago and when he started coughing I started to freak out a little. But it passed quickly, thankfully!
Oh Juliette, I really like you. And youu look so pretty in these pictures. Why do you have to be co$?????
*tears of disappointment*
I don’t criticize their beliefs – frankly, I am in no position to do so. People believe all kinds of wacky stuff. But Co$’s issue isn’t the beliefs (although I disagree with those). It’s the practices. Any church that would keep disconnection as part of its system isn’t a decent theology. So many former members have come out and talked about the terrible ways the church treats people who try to leave or who even QUESTION the way they run (Hell, Leah Remini). Marty Rathbun has talked extensively about the “free Scientologists” movement – people who believe it but object to the way the church is run.
Tom Cruise wasn’t attacked for talking about warning labels. He was attacked for playing shrink and stating that there was “no such thing” as a chemical imbalance. He wasn’t arguing for safer meds – he was arguing for no meds because they simply don’t work, in his opinion. He deserved every bit of pushback he got.
That’s how I feel – believe whatever you want, whatever makes you happy and gets you through the day – so long as you don’t hurt anyone else by doing so. And CO$ has hurt a lot of people.
Good point, Sam. I don’t believe in what they believe, but I don’t believe in what a lot of people believe. But when you have multiple members of any type of congregation claiming systematic abuse, then you should evaluate the practices, not necessarily the beliefs.
She grew up in it, if I’m not mistaken. Makes it much harder. Much the same as those who are raised Christian since childhood – almost impossible to tear them away from their God. There are many biblical tenets that are just as loony, if not more so, than any of the pulp fiction Hubbard wrote. I hope she breaks free.
That purple dress is a monstrosity. Maybe she’s hiding Shelly MIscavige in there?
This is a serious question:
Do Co$ cult members not understand that L Ron Hubbard was a science FICTION writer? And do they not understand that his hatred of Psychiatry is based solely on the fact that his book Dianetics was denied by Journal of the American Medical Association and the American Journal of Psychiatry?
He was a spiteful, pathological liar. The fact that anyone takes his sh-t seriously boggles my mind.
+1000. Same as those beings who worship Kanye Kardashian(they believe in him the same way you might to a God).
Serious answer: They aren’t told that and the information provided on LRH’s history is all spin, spin, spin. I grew up in a CO$ family, and until I was well into my 20’s did I know anything about LRH or CO$ other than what is shared directly by the church and in church publications/documents/presentations/lectures, etc. Anything not from the church is strongly, strongly discouraged and is considered suspect by members of the church. Having been raised that way and with an incredibly manipulative and controlling father figure, I was scared straight away from ever exercising my critical thinking skills until I was no longer under his roof.
Now I know better.
Sigh. I absolutely love this talented woman and think she’s the coolest person on the planet. Then I remember that she’s a brainwashed cult member. Ugh.
GET OUT JULIETTE!!
I can’t believe you called the COS fluff “scripture”.
How can someone who seems like such a free spirit be so brainwashed at the same time? I guess that’s the vulnerability of being open minded and looking for meaning in life, the crazies might find you first.
I’m actually kind of surprised none of the $ci folks have showed up for this thread. They usually like to troll comments sections with pro-$ci stuff. My favorite is when they try to compare the Catholic abuse scandal with $ ci.
Okay, so for me I find Co$ terrifying, the way they treat their “members” what they do them if they try to leave-the veiled threats, the sinister ‘cleansings”, or whatever. I really think they blackmail their members emotionally and financially and it’s scary. To me it is a cult, plain and simple. I do however believe that pharmaceuticals are over and mis-prescribed in this country, esp. to our children. They can help people, and I have seen this for myself, but I do agree with her statement regarding their misuse.
She can be an interesting actor.
She is also batshit insane. And not that bright.
Dear Juliette: I can sum people’s distrust in Co$ in two words, neither of which includes media or pharma: LISA McPHERSON
Seriously? She’s not that interesting an actor. She always does the ditzy/crazy thing. 20 years ago, she was doing that crazy rock chick in Strange Days. The last role I saw her in was that film with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts…where she was playing, yep, a ditz.
Juliette Lewis needs to explain why in the world she is supporting a cult that:
hides child abusers
steals money
kidnaps people
tortures people
breaks up families
ignores medical emergencies
gives vitamins to addicts.
ScientoLIEogy is going down and Juliette will sink with the ship unless she jumps off soon.
No, Juliette. The media hates Scientology because its a wacked out cult.
Send them Scientologists to Israel and see what happens – if Tom Cruise really put his mind to it I bet he really could stop the war there.