{"id":15649,"date":"2025-11-24T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=15649"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:22:52","slug":"inside-tom-cruises-1980s-scientology-rise-how-a-cure-for-dyslexia-became-the-explosive-force-that-ended-his-11-year-marriage-to-nicole-kidman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=15649","title":{"rendered":"Inside Tom Cruise\u2019s 1980s Scientology Rise: How a \u2018Cure for Dyslexia\u2019 Became the Explosive Force That Ended His 11-Year Marriage to Nicole Kidman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><span class=\"citation-27\"><span dir=\"auto\">Tom Cruise<\/span><\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-27\"><span dir=\"auto\"> , introduced to the Church of Scientology in the late 1980s by his first wife, actress <\/span><\/span><b><span class=\"citation-27\"><span dir=\"auto\">Mimi Rogers<\/span><\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-27 citation-end-27\"><span dir=\"auto\"> , quickly became one of its most prominent and devout members.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"citation-26\"><span dir=\"auto\">He publicly credited the Church with a deeply personal achievement: <\/span><\/span><b><span class=\"citation-26\"><span dir=\"auto\">curing his dyslexia<\/span><\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-26 citation-end-26\"><span dir=\"auto\"> , a struggle that had plagued him since childhood and made studying and reading scripts a major difficulty.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-inline-chip-container ng-star-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"source-inline-chip-container ng-star-inserted\"><\/div>\n<hr data-path-to-node=\"2\" \/>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><span dir=\"auto\">The Search for Stability That Fueled His Devotion<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span dir=\"auto\">However, the reason for his rapid ascent within the organization ran deeper than a professed cure. Having grown up poor, unstable, and having suffered abuse from his father, Cruise was fundamentally searching for a sense of stability and <\/span><b><span dir=\"auto\">control<\/span><\/b><span dir=\"auto\"> . Scientology, with its highly structured system, intensive courses, and promise of radical self-improvement and control over one&#8217;s life, perfectly meets this profound, underlying need.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr data-path-to-node=\"5\" \/>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><span dir=\"auto\">The Explosive Wedge in His &#8216;Marriage of the Century&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span dir=\"auto\">This intense devotion was widely cited as the ultimate cause of the surprising breakup of his high-profile, 11-year marriage to actress <\/span><b><span dir=\"auto\">Nicole Kidman<\/span><\/b><span dir=\"auto\"> (1990-2001). <\/span><span class=\"citation-25 citation-end-25\"><span dir=\"auto\">The Australian actress was reported never as invested in the religion as Cruise was.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-inline-chip-container ng-star-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span dir=\"auto\">According to several former senior members of the Church, Kidman began to be viewed as a <\/span><b><span dir=\"auto\">&#8220;threat&#8221;<\/span><\/b><span dir=\"auto\"> because she was no longer interested in participating in the religion&#8217;s practices. These reports allege that the Church of Scientology began to interfere deeply in the couple&#8217;s personal life. The subsequent divorce not only ended one of Hollywood&#8217;s most powerful couples but also cemented the Church as a central, irreplaceable factor, a profound influence that would go on to shape every major decision in Tom Cruise&#8217;s life and all his subsequent personal relationships.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise , introduced to the Church of Scientology in the late 1980s by his first wife, actress Mimi Rogers , quickly became one of its most prominent and devout members. He publicly credited the Church with a deeply personal achievement: curing his dyslexia , a struggle that had plagued him since childhood and made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}