Tom Cruise thinks he’s on planet to vanquish aliens

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Tom Cruise will save the world from aliens â€” not on the big screen but in real life.

His day job as an actor pales next to the billion-year contract of service he signed with the Church of Scientology, according to a bombshell new book, â€œGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & The Prison of Belief.â€ New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright details Cruiseâ€™s demigod status within the church, as well as the groupâ€™s ultimate purpose â€” protect humanity from aliens living in our bodies, who are bent on destroying us and ultimately the planet.

Cruise was introduced to the religion when he was 23 years old by his then-girlfriend, actress Mimi Rogers. Seven years his senior, Rogers was an avowed member of Scientology; they married in 1987. Cruise was quickly intrigued, but he kept his initial participation low-profile. He began undergoing â€œauditingâ€ â€” a process in which church members are queried about every aspect of their lives â€” under his given name, Thomas Mapother IV.

It took several years for church leaders to realize that for all of their celebrity acolytes â€” including John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Kirstie Alley, Kelly Preston and Sonny Bono â€” they had a true superstar at their disposal.

Cruise would later come to believe that in the hierarchy of Scientology, he was No. 3, behind only the founder, the late L. Ron Hubbard (known as LRH) and No. 2 David Miscavige, who goes by COB, for Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center.

Or, as Cruise would later scold a Scientologist girlfriend who had suffered through severe menstrual pain during dinner with Miscavige and therefore shown disrespect to both men: â€œYou donâ€™t get it. It goes like this. First, thereâ€™s LRH.â€ Cruise had raised his hand in the air and lowered it as he counted. â€œThen, thereâ€™s COB. Then thereâ€™s me.â€

That girlfriend, Naz Boniadi, was auditioned as a possible wife before Katie Holmes. After that incident, she never saw Cruise again. According to the book, her punishment for failure would include the cleaning of public toilets using only a toothbrush (Scientology officials have denied this).

By his own account, Cruise was â€œa functional illiterateâ€ by the time he graduated high school. He suffered from dyslexia and was also the product of a troubled, chaotic upbringing. He was born in upstate Syracuse but spent much of his childhood in Canada. He was just 12 years old when his mother woke up early one morning, grabbed Cruise and his three sisters and fled from Cruiseâ€™s abusive father. They felt, he said, â€œlike fugitives.â€
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