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Why actor Laura Prepon finally quit Scientology 5 years ago

Laura Prepon, recognized for “Orange Is the New Black” and “That ‘70s Display,” says she’s no extended practising Scientology.

The move came virtually five many years back, the actor advised People on Tuesday.

“I’ve normally been really open-minded, even because I was a kid,” she mentioned. “I was elevated Catholic and Jewish. I have prayed in churches, meditated in temples. I have examined Chinese meridian concept. I have not practiced Scientology in close to five many years and it’s no extended element of my life.”

Prepon had a son with then-fiancé Ben Foster in 2017, and the actor few married the upcoming 12 months. Though they dated only for a couple of months in advance of finding engaged in 2016, they had recognized just about every other because Prepon was 18. They welcomed a daughter in 2020, and becoming the mother of all those two children forced Prepon to appear inward, she advised the journal.

“As a brand new mother, I was reflecting so a great deal on my individual upbringing and the way I was mothered,” the forty one-12 months-aged mentioned. “I was forced to appear at a great deal of points in my life that I was not seeking at in advance of.”

Regardless of rumors to the contrary, Foster has never ever practiced Scientology, the People tale designed apparent.

“We meditate each day and I’m definitely liking it,” she mentioned of her life with Foster, “because it’s something that aids me to hear my individual voice and it’s something we can do with each other.” (Her partner was elevated in Fairfield, Iowa, a city described as “America’s Transcendental Meditation Mecca.”)

Prepon was formerly involved from 1999 to 2007 with “Malcolm in the Middle” actor Chris Masterson, who was elevated a Scientologist. A 12 months after they break up, the few bought a Los Feliz house they had co-owned.

Chris Masterson is among the the 3 brothers of “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, a substantial-profile Scientologist who is experiencing a criminal demo in Los Angeles on 3 prices of rape. Tony Ortega, a properly-recognized Scientology critic, mentioned in June 2020 that it was Danny Masterson who brought Prepon into Scientology in the late nineteen nineties, when they were each costarring on the Fox sitcom.

Church tricks spilled out during a preliminary hearing in the rape scenario, with 1 lady testifying that the church threatened to boot her if she went to authorities about her alleged assault by Danny Masterson and another saying she was advised to sign a document “taking responsibility” for allegedly becoming raped while unconscious.

In civil courtroom, the alleged victims are suing Danny Masterson, the Church of Scientology, its Religious Technological know-how Middle and Scientology chief David Miscavige. Church spokeswoman Karin Pouw advised The Periods in May well that the civil lawsuit was “a sham” filled with “false and scandalous allegations about the church dating back again additional than fifteen many years.”

In statements to The Periods, the church denied it has a policy to dissuade members from reporting crimes, inspite of repeated references to Scientology texts during the preliminary hearing that appeared to incorporate the directive. Pouw also dismissed the criminal allegations in opposition to Masterson as “nothing additional than a money shakedown.”

Periods employees writers James Queally and Matthew Ormseth contributed to this put up.