Lisa Marie Presley was afraid of “getting her” after Scientology leader David Miskabige left church, her mother Priscilla argued in her new book.
Elvis Presley’s only daughter believed that after plunging into the church headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, an incident believed to have happened in 2013, she believed that the Scientology Fool was continuing on at Miss Kabigue’s orders.
Lisa has long been a devout Scientologist who had been researching the church for many years before a dramatic exit in the same year, but Priscilla insists in her memoirs that “I’m soft enough to leave you.”
“Her anxiety has been in danger,” Priscilla writes. Miskevige was “separated from her father (Ron Missavige) and became the equivalent of a Scientology prison in a remote area on Mount San Bernardino. Lisa was enough. Lisa was enough. “cutting” from his father.
However, Priscilla confesses, “The aftermath was horrifying for her.” “After visiting headquarters, she called me from Florida and said, “Mom, I’m so scared. I handed it to David and now they’re following me. There’s a black limousine parked outside my house and following me. This is true.”
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Priscilla writes that her daughter was a more passionate Scientologist than her, but she was “disillusioned” with the church.
Certainly, Lisa, who passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54, released a protest song called “You Ai no Nothing” on her 2012 album “Storm and Grace.” In it, she calls herself “violation and oppression,” a term for Scientology for negative people.
The church has long been fired by former Scientologists, including “Queens of Queens of Queens.”
Remini, who labeled Hollywood icon Tom Cruise as the church’s “essentially the second command,” was detained for four months at a Scientology facility, claiming that Shelley Missvige, wife of Shelley Missvige, was “psychologically punished” after asking where the Italian wedding of 2006, Shelley Missvige, was the Italian wedding to Katie Holmes. (The lawsuit is expected to go to trial next month. Last year, a judge dumped a portion of the lawsuit based on the fact that part of the church attacks against her is protected under the First Amendment.)
The Church grew from the writings of science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. He came to believe that the human body is a temporary home of an immortal spirit known as the “Si-Tang.”
Its followers are estimated at over 30,000, but it gave the church a massive estimate of $3 billion. But its secrets and pay-as-you-go practices – billed followers for courses and audit sessions, encouraging members to sign a billion-year slave pledge, leading to being called a “cult” by critics.
Priscilla writes that she was introduced to church by her fellow John Travolta, leading her daughter to fold in August 1977 after Elvis’ death.
She heard “rums that sometimes interfere with Scientology,” but the former “Dallas” star said she had “good experiences” with the church. Serb is “particularly valuable” to the organization, she writes.
“I was considered an asset, so I could have been meticulously nurtured. I could bring in new members, and I did,” she says in the book.
Although she admits to being “naive”, the church was “a welcome and precious part of my life,” she writes. “In the end, the doubts came, but they came a long way later.”
Priscilla eventually left to support her daughter. Also, the church wanted her to “relax” her parents, both Catholic.
“In the end, Lisa and I left the church almost at the same time,” she writes. “She went out with a van and a lot of headlines. I chose to go quietly. It was hard to leave. There was something about Scientology that I loved. I still missed it. I lifted up some of my burdens.
“He was one of the first people to call when my daughter passed away. I wish him well, along with many good souls pursuing the same ideals I once wanted.”
