New Scientology Documentary Claims #TomCruise Had #NicoleKidman's Phone Wiretapped

HBO’s new documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Sunday and it revealed some shocking stuff about the church. It also claims that the church caused Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s breakup in 2001 after 11 years of marriage.

The documentary shows Tom praising the head of the church David Miscavige and dancing at a Scientology birthday party. It also described how Tom and Nicole fell in love on the set of their 90s film Days of Thunder.

According to the movie, Nicole was considered an enemy because her father was a psychiatrist, and Scientologists do not believe in the profession. As a result, Tom began drifting away from the religion. David set up a plan to get Tom back to the church, including making him paranoid about his marriage with Nicole and using  aggressive intimidation tactics on Nicole because they were suspicious of the actress.

A member of the church said that Tom requested a wiretap of Nicole‘s phone because there were thoughts she was talking to non-church members about their issues. The documentary also described how Tom and Nicole‘s kids, Conner and Isabella, were persuaded by members to turn against their mom.

However, reps for the church released a statement on Monday, in which they called the documentary "false information.” The statement reads:

"As we stated in our New York Times ad on Jan. 16, Alex Gibney's film is Rolling Stone/University of Virginia redux. Despite repeated requests over three months, Mr. Gibney and HBO refused to provide the Church with any of the allegations in the film so it could respond. They also refused to speak with any of the 25 Church representatives, former spouses and children of their sources who flew to New York to meet and provide them with first hand knowledge regarding assertions made in Mr. Wright's book and presumably in Mr. Gibney's film."

"Their sources are the usual collection of obsessive, disgruntled former Church members kicked out as long as 30 years ago for malfeasance, who have a documented history of making up lies about the Church for money. The documentary is false information. The Church is committed to free speech. However, free speech is not a free pass to broadcast or publish false information. We invite you to view our complete statement, correspondence and documented facts at freedommag.org/hbo."