After Vanity Fair magazine reported that Tom Cruise auditioned Nazanin Boniadi to be his wife on magazine’s October issue both Tom Crusie’s rep and Church of Scientology came up with official denies about the audition process.
A representative for Tom Cruise has officially denied that the actor ever auditioned Nazanin Boniadi to be his wife, as has been reported by Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth for the magazine’s October issue.
Tom Cruise’s rep said in a statement to ABC News the rep said: “Lies in a different font are still lies — designed to sell magazines.” The Church of Scientology told Vanity Fair that no such recruiting project occurred.
However, Oscar-winning director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis has backed Vanity Fair’s story about Tom Crusie auditioning wives In an email to Showbiz411.com, Haggis revealed that he has known Boniadi for years according to Huffington Post.
I’ve known Nazanin for about three years. I met her through a mutual friend when I was doing my own personal research into the allegations against Scientology, before I wrote my letter of resignation. Naz was embarrassed by her unwitting involvement in this incident and never wanted it to come out, so I kept silent. However I was deeply disturbed by how the highest ranking members of a church could so easily justify using one of their members; how they so callously punished her and then so effectively silenced her when it was done. It wasn’t just the threats; they actually made her feel ashamed, when all she had been was human and trusting.
A representative for the Church of Scientology also called the allegations “hogwash” in a statement issued to Us Weekly.
“The entire story is hogwash. There was no project, secret or otherwise, ever conducted by the Church to find a bride (audition or otherwise) for any member of the church,” the Church said in a statement to Us Weekly. “The allegation and entire premise of the Vanity Fair article is totally false . . . We have been denying this ridiculous tale now since it first appeared in print four years ago.”
The rep went on to attempt to dismantle Paul Haggis’ email to Showbiz411.com, claiming that the filmmaker had a previous relationship with Nazanin Boniadi.
“Both Paul Haggis and Nazanin Boniadi are members of a small self-proclaimed ‘posse’ of anti-Scientology apostates founded by self-admitted liars and suborners of perjury,” the rep added in the statement to Us Weekly. “This posse has been selling stories to the highest bidder for years . . . In recent weeks, they have exploited this high profile divorce in any way they can by spreading lies to draw attention to themselves so they an make money shilling their self-published books.”
