In the summer of 2005, Haney and others working with Shelly Miscavige were “busted,” Scientology’s word for demoted, to lower positions as Shelly vanished from the base. She claims their relationship deteriorated in 2004 as David Miscavige and actor Tom Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, grew closer. I knew everything about their private lives,” she explains. She was with them nearly 24 hours a day for three years. Before she could qualify for such sensitive work, she was interrogated about her sexual history.Īfter passing that ordeal, Haney became “steward” to the Miscaviges, working in their quarters and serving their meals. She caught the eye of Shelly Miscavige, wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, who then had Haney moved to Gold Base in California in order to serve the couple directly. Haney graduated from the Cadet Org to the Sea Org and signed its billion-year contract, promising to serve Scientology lifetime after lifetime, at the age of 15. YouTube Pilot Pleads Guilty to Obstruction After Deliberately Crashing Airplane to Get ViewsĪt 10, she alleges in her lawsuit, she was subjected to “bullbaiting,” a common Scientology procedure that requires a subject to sit without flinching while insults are being hurled at them by a “coach.” Some of the things shouted at her were, “I am going to fuck you and your mother,” and “You are going to suck my dick,” she alleges in the suit. That case was also forced into arbitration initially, but then a California appeals court ruled that because the allegations of harassment (including the alleged poisoning of pets) had occurred after the women had left the church, the arbitration contracts shouldn’t apply. An exception was the lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers, who sued Scientology for, they said, harassing them for taking their allegations to the LAPD. Haney, like other former Scientologists, finds that the church’s “arbitration” strategy is an impediment to getting a day in court. No charges were filed, but Haney herself filed a lawsuit against Scientology in June 2019 alleging kidnapping, stalking, and libel, which turned into a legal nightmare that now has her facing the prospect of going to the church to submit herself to an internal “religious arbitration” proceeding. I was thinking, of course we’re going to court, because this is all illegal!” “I went to the authorities three months after I got out. She also began talking to law enforcement. The episode explained that after Haney made it to Los Angeles, Remini hired her as an assistant, and once Scientology found out about it Haney was allegedly subjected to a frightening campaign of surveillance and stalking.
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