Re: Going Clear + Scientology Celebs: Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley & Mo
I don't like her either.
But I have to say. I met her in person in 1983 not too long after I joined the SO. I was introduced to her in NY George's Restaurant in LA.
This was pre-Cheers. She was a Vulcan in Star Trek then.
She really didn't seem at all like this then. She was actually kind of quiet and composed.
Same with Jenna Elfman. I met her not too long after she got into Scientology. She was Jenna Butala then. This was before she married Bodhi.
She was friendly and nice and very grounded. I liked her. She was public and I was staff but we were kind of friends. As much as you could be under those circumstances. We were both on Solo I and we twinned a lot. She helped me with some other stuff I needed on my post just because I asked.
As these two both got more famous, they were more put under the "DM Influence", for lack of a better term. They both got nastier and more obnoxious.
Have to say, I knew staff I worked with the same thing happened to. Were great people. Started going uplines to be "groomed". Became elitist nasty snobbish assholes.
I really don't think it's a coincidence.
I know next-to-nothing about Ms. Alley's acting skills, but believe those here who say they're, um, lacking.
What I do sense, however, is that she has a steadfast and true sense of accomplishment for kicking her drug addiction...courtesy of, as she believes, Narconon.
Because of that, I think, she feels genuine
loyalty to Narconon, and by extension, scientology.
Loyalty tends to be, as many people will agree, as stubborn as it is (thought to be) noble. A person can take real pride in their own loyalty to...something or someone...and that pride boosts self-confidence/self-assuredness.
If I had an opportunity to educate her, which I assuredly don't have, I think I would try to help her to learn that: (1)
other drug rehabilitation programs/therapies are as good as, and even better than, whatever recovery rates Narconon claims to attain; and, (2) people who 'graduated' from Narconon really did most of the work of recovery all by themselves.
I hope Kirstie Alley learns to give herself, not Narconon, full credit for 'kicking' substance abuse.
Boy, that'd scare David Miscavige, eh?
JB