
After meeting future husband John Travolta on the set of a film in the
1980s, actress Kelly Preston began practicing Scientology, a religion Travolta had been
a part of since 1975, and the couple’s 1991 marriage was performed by a French
Scientologist minister in Paris. In May of this year, Preston said on “The
Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet” that her religion that helped her deal with
the loss of her 16-year-old son Jett, who died in late 2008. “In Scientology,
we have what’s called ‘auditing,’ and that helps you to address things in your
life and to strip them away. It's a path of spiritual
enlightenment. Also, it helps rid the mind of painful experience completely.
Through that, the people at my church literally held my hand and got me
through... I will forever be indebted,” she shared. Jett's death also brought attention to
Scientologists’ denial of mental and neurological disorders and opposition to
psychology and psychiatry. The couple had initially denied that Jett had autism,
saying he suffered from a disorder called Kawasaki disease. During the trial of
two men accused of extorting the family after Jett’s death, however, Travolta
admitted for the first time that his son had indeed been autistic.

Dough E Fresh claimed to be hip-hop's first Scientologist back in 2009,
when he revealed he had been adhering to the religion for eight years.
He and a former girlfriend, a New York radio personality known as Miss
Jones, were introduced to Scientology by Isaac Hayes. "I've learned how
to look at things and not judge them but respect them and use it in a
way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and
respect their reality," Fresh told
Essence magazine. He added, "Scientology is not a
white religion. It is not just for white people. Scientology is not
written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is
evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black
community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's
for everyone, but you have to take a look. You may be amazed at what you
get."
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