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Jan. 30 2023, Revealed 6:45 p.m. ET
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Presley, who died after struggling cardiac arrest earlier this month, joined the church together with her mom, Priscilla, after her father, Elvis Presley, died in 1977. Elvis had allegedly been approached by the church earlier than however he at all times steered away from Scientology, claiming they solely wished him for his fame and cash.
Based on Lisa Marie, her dad was proper — one thing she found years later when her former pal, Scientology chief David Miscavige allegedly turned on her and people closest to him.
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When requested about why she left the church in 2014, Elvis’ solely youngster promised, “It’s a f—— hell of a narrative. There’s a lot to it.” Talking with Scientology critic Tony Ortega, Lisa Marie claimed, “Dave [Miscavige] was a very good good friend of mine. Now he’s f—— Hitler.”
She stated her first inkling that one thing wasn’t proper got here after her mentor, Debbie Cook dinner, who was the captain of the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, started having bother with the church.
Cook dinner protested Miscavige’s management in an e mail she despatched 1000’s of Scientology members in 2012. The church ended up suing her and paid her a settlement to finish the authorized battle — solely after she took the witness stand and described the horrors of Miscavige’s makeshift jail referred to as “The Gap,” which he allegedly created for disobeying Sea Org executives.
“I cherished Debbie. And what occurred to her actually wrecked me,” Lisa Marie advised Ortega.
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The singer stated the whole lot started to alter when she turned 25 years previous. That is the age she certified to get her inheritance from Elvis’ property. “At 25, after I received the inheritance, they began grooming me to be this one who would exit and get everybody else in,” Lisa Marie insisted, which allegedly included her second husband, Michael Jackson.
She claimed Scientology wished her to recruit Michael into the church regardless of his Jehovah’s Witnesses background. “However then they realized he was getting an excessive amount of unhealthy press,” Lisa Marie stated within the interview, insisting the church modified its thoughts about Jackson when he was linked to youngster molestation allegations.
She additionally alleged that Scientology pressured her to divorce the King of Pop in 1996.
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“I used to be in love with Michael, imagine it or not. I didn’t wish to go away him. He was in bother and I wished to assist him. And so they made certain that I left him,” she advised Ortega, including that “DM [David Miscavige] facilitated my divorce with MJ.”
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“DM [David Miscavige] facilitated my divorce with MJ,” she stated, claiming that Miscavige and a Scientologist lawyer, John P. Coale, pressured her to file for divorce.
“One morning I received a name from John Coale [Scientology attorney]. He stated, ‘Michael’s going to make a transfer. He’s going to file.’ So I filed.” Lisa Marie later regretted it, revealing the incident opened her eyes much more in regards to the church’s alleged corruption.
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“Whereas I used to be starting to appreciate how f—– up the whole lot was, and what number of criminals there have been, I had dinner with him [David] at Nobu 4 years in the past in London. Listening to him discuss how nice Scientology was doing was like listening to Hitler speaking about how he has chimneys and smoke popping out of all over the place. All he may discuss was Tom or buildings. A four-hour dinner,” she claimed within the interview.
After actress Leah Remini left the church and commenced her campaign to tear it down, Miscavige stopped speaking to her, Lisa Marie alleged.
“My mother remains to be mates with [a Scientology attorney who] advised her that Dave is so paranoid now, no one sees him.No person sees him. He’s going into an underground bunker interval,” she stated years in the past.
Lisa Marie started researching extra about “The Gap” and making mates with former members that both left the church or appeared to nonetheless be in good standing, who advised her the horror tales of what these exterior of Scientology had heard in regards to the faith.
“No means, that’s not why I joined this,” she remembered pondering after gathering extra intel.
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Issues got here to a head in October 2014 after she tried to confront Miscavige over explosive allegations about his personal father. As a substitute, she was reportedly met by his indignant daughters. Nevertheless, a consultant for Scientology advised RadarOnline.com the incident by no means occurred.
“That’s a bald-faced lie by these looking for to use this tragic occasion. It by no means occurred—PERIOD,” the rep stated in a press release.
“I simply know that I began to self-destruct as a result of this factor [Scientology] is corrupt. I wanted closure,” Lisa Marie advised Ortega. She stated she noticed a digital camera on the facility and believed Miscavige was watching her so she spoke to it instantly.
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“I don’t know what’s mistaken with you. Are you throwing everybody in The Gap? You simply made the largest mistake of your life, you simply broke up your personal household,” she recalled screaming into the digital camera. “Anyone must cease you.”
She claimed that when Miscavige’s daughters got here in, all hell broke unfastened and he or she “couldn’t get a phrase in edgewise.”
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Lisa Marie determined then and there that she was leaving the church. She stated her mom Priscilla and daughter Riley left Scientology together with her.
“I’m a suppressive individual, and I’m the rationale my dad died and MJ died. That’s what’s being stated inside Scientology,” she acknowledged.
Sadly, Lisa Marie died unexpectedly on January 12, 2023. She was solely 54 years previous. Elvis’ solely youngster was buried at Graceland in Memphis together with her dad, her grandparents, and her late son, Benjamin, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2020.