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(NewsNation) — The niece of Scientology person David Miscavige has agelong been an outspoken professional of the church, and now, she’s doing truthful with a caller TikTok page.
Jenna Miscavige entered the Church of Scientology arsenic a young kid and near arsenic an big successful 2005. Since then, she says, she has committed her beingness to exposing what she considers a unsafe cult, contempt what she says are the organization's attempts to intimidate her. Her latest strategy, creating TikTok videos, could connection a measurement of protection, Jenna Miscavige told “Banfield."
“I consciousness comfortableness and information successful speaking out, but it’s evidently not amusive to beryllium followed by backstage investigators,” she said Wednesday. “Initially, speaking retired astir Scientology was precise dangerous, but present radical tin find their ain platforms, connected TikTok and YouTube, and determination is information successful numbers and successful corroboration.”
Who is the niece of Scientology person David Miscavige?
Jenna Miscavige is the girl of David Miscavige's older brother, Ron.
She was a 3rd procreation Scientologist, aft her parents and grandparents joined the church. She grew up successful the Sea Organization, oregon Sea Org, a radical of the astir devout Scientologists.
She said she was separated from her parents astatine the property of 8 to unrecorded connected a children's commune successful accordance with the religion’s rules. Here, she said, she was subjected to rigorous manual labor. Both her parents and grandparents near the religion but were not allowed to instrumentality her with them, she said.
In 2004, she met different Scientology member, Dallas Hill, connected a religion ngo to Australia. There, the 2 were capable to entree the internet, wherever they recovered material, including the website Operation Clambake, that criticized the church. The 2 got joined and near the religion erstwhile Hill was 22 years old.
In 2013, she wrote a publication exposing the religion called “Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.”
“In the past mates of years, I’ve conscionable go reinspired to commencement talking astir Scientology, by definite YouTube channels and TikTok channels,” Jenna Miscavige told “Banfield.”
What is Scientology?
Scientology describes itself arsenic a religion founded successful the 1950s by subject fabrication writer L. Ron Hubbard.
Hubbard based the religion connected the mentation that radical could beryllium held backmost by “engrams,” oregon past antagonistic events, immoderate adjacent from erstwhile lives. He suggested that engrams could beryllium flooded by an “auditing” process, successful which trained Scientology members would usage E-meters — devices that somewhat lucifer prevarication detectors — to measurement reactions.
David Miscavige is called the “ecclesiastical person of the Scientology religion” and besides serves arsenic president of the committee of the Religious Technology Center, according to the church’s website.
Where is Shelly Miscavige?
Shelly Miscavige had been considered the de facto archetypal woman of the church, but she reportedly has not been seen publically since 2007.
Her disappearance sparked interest among erstwhile members of the religion, including histrion Leah Remini, who filed a missing person’s study successful 2013. After an investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department said Shelly Miscavige was “alive and safe” and closed the case, People reported.
Jenna Miscavige offered an mentation astir wherever Shelly Miscavige is today, based connected accusation she says she has received.
After a “falling out,” her aunt works astatine a Scientology basal successful Twin Peaks, Calif., wherever religion members “put Scientology scripture onto titanium plates truthful that they tin past atomic holocaust," Jenna Miscavige said.
“It’s a precise secretive, peculiar job, but she has been seen eating astatine section restaurants, going retired to spot Marvel movies and seen astatine the chiropractor. So, she’s determination of her ain choosing,” she said.
“I don’t privation to accidental everything is large successful her beingness due to the fact that she’s inactive successful a cult, and that’s not large for anybody,” the niece continued. “But that’s wherever she chooses to be. She’s an adult.”
Scientology effect to Jenna Miscavige claims
The Church of Scientology declined to person a typical look connected Wednesday's "Banfield" but sent a connection soon earlier the amusement aired. The statement, successful part, attacked Jenna Miscavige for contradicting herself successful her videos and said she doesn't connection grounds to beryllium her "outlandish" claims.
The enactment said she was expelled from the religion for misconduct, a crushed wherefore Jenna Miscavige is present criticizing the Church of Scientology.
