Scientology and the Kidman Cruise split. When David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology, heard that Tom Cruise had an unfulfilled fantasy of running through a field of wildflowers with Nicole Kidman, he decided to make it happen. It was the American summer of 1. A few months earlier, Kidman and Cruise had hooked up on Days of Thunder. Things can move fast when youre on the set of a film about a stock car racer. Cruise began the shoot married to Mimi Rogers and ended it in the arms of his young co star. In the delirious early weeks of their relationship, Kidman agreed to shack up with Cruise in one of the strangest places imaginable. At the base of the San Jacinto Mountains in California lies Scientologys secretive 2. International Base. Referred to more commonly as Gold or Int, it houses hundreds of Sea Org members. Sea Organization is the name given to Scientologys religious order, which comprises its most dedicated followers. Around 2. 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Trailer Louis Theroux My Scientology Movie. Louis Theroux wont take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church of Scientologys Los Angeles headquarters is turned down. As harsh rain pelted down, a platoon of members tore up a large section of the compounds highly manicured lawn. The grass was carefully cut and rolled up before being transplanted onto pallets. Drenched to the bone, the workers pushed through till dawn, ploughing the field by spotlight to have it ready to be fertilised and seeded over the weekend. Sea Org member and ex marine Andre Tabayoyon estimated the project cost tens of thousands of dollars. It was money ploughed into the dust. The wildflowers did not blossom in the way Miscavige anticipated. Some shot up as tall green stalks, others wilted in the harsh desert sun. Weeds sprang up and overtook what was left of the wildflowers. Miscavige inspected the project and didnt like it, said Tabayoyon. So the whole meadow was ploughed up, destroyed, reploughed and sown with plain grass. Cruise and Kidman never got to run through that field of flowers. What began with dreams of fields of flowers would end with wiretaps and marital sabotage. Nicole Kidman would find out what it was like to be both the beneficiary and victim of David Miscaviges obsession with Tom Cruise. In the beginning, Scientologys leader had actively encouraged their relationship, but before long the Australian actress came to be seen as the greatest threat to Scientologys greatest asset. At the beginning of 1. Miscavige had a problem with Cruises wife, Mimi Rogers, and the brand of Scientology that she preached. Rogers had introduced Cruise to Scientology in 1. Her father, Phil Spickler, had worked with L. Ron Hubbard the former science fiction writer who started Scientology in the early 1. Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, DC, and set up a Scientology mission in the Bay area of San Francisco. But in the early 8. Spickler and other mission holders left Scientology, disillusioned by the direction the organisation was heading. While Miscavige was thrilled when Spicklers son in law first came to Int Base in 1. In Scientology terms, Spickler was  considered a squirrel, someone who practised Scientology outside of its formal structure, and it was assumed his daughter followed suit. Cruise received his first auditing at the Enhancement Center in Sherman Oaks, a mission set up by Mimi Rogers and her former husband, Jim. Auditing is a central practice in Scientology it uses techniques from hypnosis to create a reverie or light trance that is then meant to clear a person of negative influences or engrams. Tom Cruise had first seen Nicole Kidman on the big screen in her breakthrough film, the 1. Australian thriller Dead Calm. She played the role of Rae Ingram, the young wife of a navy officer who becomes trapped on a yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a sociopath played by Billy Zane. Dubbed by The Washington Post as an Amazon for the 9. Cruise, who was preparing to shoot Days of Thunder, was mesmerised by her and convinced the producers to cast the 2. Dr Claire Lewicki, a neurosurgeon who falls for Cruises character, Cole Trickle. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in late 1. Scientology was ringing alarm bells in the Church. Photo Getty Images. On set, the pair fell in love. According to Marty Rathbun, a former senior church executive who left Scientology in 2. David Miscavige used Greg Wilhere, one of his top lieutenants, to encourage Cruise to cheat on his Scientologist wife. It just shows you how twisted and corrupted Scientology is, Rathbun told journalist Tony Ortega one of Americas most well known commentators on the Church of Scientology, who writes a daily blog on the subject called The Underground Bunker. Why would Scientology want to promote Toms promiscuity Because Mimi was connected to her father, Phil Spickler, and Miscavige wanted to own Tom outright. After Days of Thunder wrapped in May 1. Mimi Rogers demanded she be given access to Scientologys version of marriage counselling. The process took around a week, but went nowhere. With Miscavige determined to undermine the marriage of his new star recruit, the sessions were doomed to fail. Timeline 1 from left to right1. At the 6. 3rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. At a Herb Ritts exhibition opening, West Hollywood. At the LA. premiere for Interview With a Vampire. Photo Getty images. Rogers received confirmation her marriage was over when Rathbun paid her a visit. Accompanied by Sherman Lenske, a former personal lawyer to L. Ron Hubbard, Rathbun arrived carrying divorce papers their visit was designed to intimidate and it was clear to Rogers what she had to do. She signed the divorce papers and quit the Church of Scientology. By meddling in Cruises private life, Miscavige had solved one problem, but created another. Nicole Kidman, whom Cruise was now planning to marry, was the daughter of the prominent Sydney psychologist and author Dr Antony Kidman. In Scientology, psychologists are considered Suppressive Persons antisocial personalities who will cause harm to the organisation. As the daughter of a psychologist, Kidman was what Hubbard called a Potential Trouble Source.