Will Storr

Because I remember someone was explaining to me, someone who left the church was explaining to me how if someone would be hostile, you have a very specific way you describe them and that they all do it in the group.

Suppressive persons.

Suppressive persons, yes.

You're a suppressive person.

Or potential trouble sources.

dude I ordered Dianetics in like 1994 I had just moved to LA and I thought it was a self-help book I was like all right yeah fucking look at your brains gonna explode you're gonna get your shit together look at all these people that are succeeding on Dianetics you know it's 26 or whatever it was so I ordered this book and they've never stopped sending me things I mean they fucking never stopped sending me things was there ever a point when you thought hey

Hang on a minute, this is quite interesting.

No, no, once I realized it was Scientology, I was like, oh, Dianetics is Scientology?

I was like, okay.

But then part of me was like, damn, a lot of these Scientologists are doing really well in Hollywood.

Maybe that's a good cult to join.

Maybe if they just let me be me.

Because it seems like that was part of it.

There was a big allure over how many successful people were following that religion.

I mean, some of the most successful actors

Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time, and he's literally the poster boy for that.

Yeah.

You'll probably lose who the fuck you are.

Who am I?

Am I Rocky?