Random Craziest Tom Cruise Scientology Rumors (11 items)

(#10) The Rumor: Cruise Has Reached The Highest OT Levels

It’s been reported that Tom Cruise has risen to the highest echelons of the Church of Scientology. Yes, Cruise has reportedly reached the ranks of "Operating Thetan Seven" or "OT-VII." This level of Scientology gives Cruise more authoritative power.

OTs can allegedly move inanimate objects with their minds, leave their bodies at will, telepathically communicate, and control the behavior of animals and human beings.
(#3) The Rumor: Cruise Doesn't Just Dislike Psychiatry

Scientology itself is anti-psychiatry. Founder L. Ron Hubbard proclaimed psychiatry was an evil enterprise, a form of terrorism, and the cause of crime. Hubbard’s anti-psychiatry themes were first introduced in his sci-fi books Mission Earth and Battlefield Earth.

In a famous 2005 interview with Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise defended his criticism of Brooke Shields taking medication for post-partum depression. When Lauer talked about certain drugs helping people he knew, Cruise said: "You're glib." And later in the charged interview, "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."
(#4) The Rumor: Cruise Freaked Out Jerry O’Connell

In 2008, Jerry O’Connell made a Tom Cruise Scientology parody video for Funny or Die. O’Connell’s video is a satire of the infamous/intense video interview Cruise gave about Scientology. Cruise wields such power in the Scientology community that O’Connell still avoids him to this day.

He said on the podcast Allegedly with Theo Von & Matthew Cole Weiss: “I saw [him] at one event and I hid. I had to be at the event. I hid for as long as I could. When it was time to disperse, I literally was the first at valet.”
(#9) The Rumor: Cruise Offered To Discipline Insubordinate Scientologists

It has been alleged that Scientology leader David Miscavige instigates brutal tactics to keep Scientology members in line. It has also been alleged that Tom Cruise offered to "beat the living [crap]” out of insubordinate members for not properly preparing for his visit to the church's Hemet, California, compound.

Allegedly, three men were repeatedly beaten by Miscavige’s crew — who threatened that Cruise was on his way to take part in the discipline.
(#1) The Rumor: Cruise Is A Key Ambassador For Scientology

In her 20/20 interview, Remini said that Tom Cruise was one of the main factors leading to her leaving Scientology. She said Cruise is so important to the church that the two are inseparable. Thus, in Scientology logic: an attack on Tom Cruise is an attack on Scientology.

“Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself,” Remini said. “You are evil.”
(#8) The Rumor: Scientology's Leader Forced Workers To Build A Wildflower Field For Cruise

Lawrence Wright released his book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief in 2013. Wright interviewed over 200 people involved in some capacity with Scientology. One anecdote details David Miscavage's failed attempt to please the actor by building a field of wildflowers in the middle of the desert:

Miscavige heard about the couple’s [Cruise and Kidman] fantasy of running through a field of wildflowers together, so he had members [of Sea Org, a unit of Scientology] plant a section of the desert with them; when that failed to meet his expectations, the meadow was plowed and sodded with grass. When a flood triggered a mudslide that despoiled a romantic bungalow specially constructed for the couple, Miscavige held the entire base responsible and ordered everyone to work 16-hour days until everything was restored.