Lisa Marie Presley wasn’t a fan of Scientology’s biggest protégé — Tom Cruise. The late daughter of Elvis Presley “hated” the actor and revealed her despise for him years before her death, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Lisa Marie got roped into the religion at the age of nine after her father died in 1977. She revealed that her mom, Priscilla, got recruited by John Travolta’s assistant, Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor.
Elvis had allegedly been approached by the church before but he always steered clear of Scientology, claiming they only wanted him for his fame and money — something Lisa Marie later backed.
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In an interview with Scientology critic Tony Ortega, Lisa Marie accused the religion’s leader David Miscavige of preying on her family’s fortune, adding that once she turned 25 and could collect Elvis’ inheritance, everything changed.
“At 25, after I got the inheritance, they started grooming me to be this person who would go out and get everyone else in,” she said in an unearthed interview after leaving the religion in 2014.
Lisa Marie alleged that Scientology wanted her to begin recruiting her famous friends, which included her second husband Michael Jackson despite his Jehovah’s Witnesses background.
“But then they realized he was getting too much bad press,” she stated in the interview, insisting the church changed its mind about Jackson when he was linked to child molestation allegations.
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