2:40AM Defamer Hollywood | With two bursting-at-the-seams tell-all books out this month delving deeper than anyone wants to go into the demented world of Scientology, authors Ian Halperin (Hollywood Undercover) and Andrew Morton (Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography) are turning against each other, kind of like
Xanax and cocaine. According to Halperin, the one who
posed as a gay actor in order to uncover the Church’s reparative techniques, Morton’s book is “full of factual errors,” most twisted
his claim that Tom is scientology’s second most powerful member:
“A lot of people I met when I was undercover insisted Cruise was the number 1 man. Cruise is the star there, and, like in his films, no one at the Church got top billing over him. Church officials told me that everyone, including David Miscavige [scientology's Chairman of the Board] do whatever Cruise says. Basically, they act as his puppets.”
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