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Scientology Documentary Claims Tom Cruise Wiretapped Nicole Kidman’s Phone, Church Rejects Claims

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031212 TomCruiseABC?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1422452857912ABC/RICK ROWELL(NEW YORK) — Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s well-publicized split after nearly 11 years of marriage is one of the subjects explored in Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, and the church has wasted no time denying the claims made in the film.

The film, based on Lawrence Wright’s 2013 book, delves deeply into the Hollywood couple’s breakup, which was shrouded in secrecy.

According to Us Weekly, the movie alleges that after Kidman fell in love with Cruise on the set of the 1990 film Days of Thunder, she was labeled a P.T.S. or Potential Trouble Source by the Church because her father was a psychiatrist and Scientologists don’t recognize the profession.

The tabloid says the documentary claims the Church went to great lengths to keep Cruise in the fold after it feared he had “drifted” away during the marriage.

According to Us Weekly, the film alleges that church head David Miscavige sanctioned a plan to “facilitate the breakup” by auditing the actor’s mental state and stirring up his paranoia. One church member alleges in the film that Cruise hired a private investigator to wiretap his wife’s phones.

The Church flatly denies the allegations. “The accusations made in the film are entirely false and alleged without ever asking the Church,” Scientology officials said in a statement. The Church said in its statement that “free speech is not a free pass to broadcast or publish false information.”

Church officials also took to task the people who participated in the film, noting in its statement that “Gibney’s sources are the usual collection of obsessive, disgruntled former Church members kicked out as long as 30 years ago for malfeasance, who have a documented history of making up lies about the Church for money.”

Additionally, the religion launched a Twitter account called Freedom Media Ethics and recently took out an ad in The New York Times criticizing the movie.

Cruise’s attorney tells E! Online, “Tom Cruise did not hire any private investigator to spy on or investigate Nicole Kidman in any way.  Nor did he ask the Church of Scientology to do that.  Any statement to the contrary is provably false.”

A rep for Kidman declined to comment on the story.


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