Aaron Smith-Levin

For years.

Because there's this thing called the independent Scientology movement or the free zone or whatever.

There are people who do Scientology outside of the Church of Scientology.

There's just not many of them.

But Mike was one of those people who was actually doing Scientology even after he left.

Now he no longer believes in that anymore and he doesn't do it.

But even though he still believed, even though everything he knew...

was what he was leaving behind.

He still had to leave it behind.

The final thing is when he got to a point where he was no longer being forced to lie to protect L. Ron Hubbard.

He was now being forced to lie to protect David Miscavige.

And specifically, it was about the allegations of having been assaulted by Miscavige.

Mike Rinder was at some event, it might've been a grand opening for a building, a Scientology building in London.

And I believe it was John Sweeney, at that time a BBC journalist, who stuck a camera and a microphone in Mike's face.

Is it true David Miscavige assaulted?

Is it true?

And Mike denied it on camera and then turned around and to himself is like,

This is what my life has been reduced to?

Lying to protect David Miscavige?

This used to be about L. Ron Hubbard.