But Shelly, according to several sources, worshipped the man, hanging on his every word and following his orders with a precision that belied her young years and girlish appearance. Shelly left the ship in the mids. A few years later, 11 church members, including Mary Sue, were charged with conspiracy and burglary. All were eventually convicted and served prison sentences. Spooked by the ongoing investigations, Hubbard spent the final decade of his life in paranoid madness.
Although the team was composed mostly of hardened Sea Org veterans, its leader was a fresh-faced year-old named David Miscavige.
Miscavige, who is about five feet five inches and was chronically asthmatic, had always defied his physical limitations. By the age of 12, he was conducting auditing sessions with adults. At 16 he dropped out of high school and, like all new Sea Org members, signed a billion-year contract that locked him in full-time and forever. He just moved me out lock, stock, and barrel, so I had no place to sleep. He was just nine months older—and she still seemed liked a typical year-old, giggling and listening to the love ballads of John Travolta.
The romance between Shelly and Miscavige began around , in a rustic bubble known as Int Base. Some of the girls deemed her too young and status-hungry for their taste, and they often excluded her. But once Miscavige entered the picture, she focused on him. And their timing was excellent.
Hubbard was, by this point, a babbling Kurtzian figure. This created a power vacuum that required immediate attention. Miscavige expertly outmaneuvered his rivals and shooed them out of the picture.
After that time, it progressed to insanity. Basically, Shelly was in charge of the dozen-odd staffers who worked in the executive office.
When they came home, they retired to separate bedrooms, say several sources. So I had plenty of opportunities to witness them together and never, ever saw them affectionate with each other.
I spent a lot of time with them. There was no real affection. Maybe the Miscaviges were simply modest church folk honoring the conservative policies of Sea Org, which forbade almost everything sexual, from pre-marital petting to masturbation. By some accounts, though, Miscavige was no stranger to graphic sexual imagery. Several sources say Shelly started to obsess over her makeup, her hair, her weight. Rigid adherence to an all-natural diet made her increasingly gaunt. And her relationships with certain female colleagues grew strained.
Tom De Vocht recalls an incident involving his then wife, an attractive Sea Org member prone to wearing snug tank tops. Instead, they describe him as surrounding himself with servile young beauties. The Hubbard parallels were not lost on Shelly, who, former colleagues say, was determined to roll back the trend. She would not become another Mary Sue—a loyal wife who was summarily abandoned by her husband. Shelly found guidance from L.
Miscavige, like Hubbard, evidently developed a siege mentality. His first big trigger involved the case of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism after 17 days of a Scientology auditing process designed to treat her mental instability. Then there was the P. Defectors like Jefferson Hawkins, a longtime Sea Org member, say Miscavige meted out his harshest abuse to those in his inner circle, whom he blamed for the scandals. None of the prominent defectors interviewed by V.
But many of them agree that she endured verbal abuse. You go back and fix it right now! Throughout her time as C. Assistant, others noticed her and her husband's relationship seemed anything but romantic. The pair even reportedly slept in separate beds in different rooms. I spent a lot of time with them. There was no real affection. Many ex-Scientologists believe Shelly was exiled by David to live in a compound with no contact with the outside world.
The church, when questioned by its members about Shelly's location, held on to answers like, "She's on a special project" or "She's visiting relatives," but many did not see truth in its responses. It quickly became as though Shelly did not exist and her sudden disappearance was never discussed by church members. In , Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes married and their wedding was considered "the wedding of the century in the church," according to Remini.
But Shelly was not there, and no one would answer Remini when she asked why. Literally just scattered. Remini said she was belittled by church officials for even asking about her friend's whereabouts. Remini left the Church of Scientology in At this point, she had not seen Shelly in eight years and was determined to find out where she went — and if she was still alive.
Remini filed a missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department, but nothing ever became of it. The LAPD said the report was "unfounded," according to 9News, and did not lead to any answers regarding Shelly's whereabouts or disappearance. Police said that they met with Shelly and closed the case.
The church has since claimed Remini's police report was filed in bad faith and questioned the ex-scientologist's credibility.
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