Scientology spokesperson freaks during Nightline interview when reporter Martin Bashir gets down to particulars of the cultish "church" that counts Tom Cruise and John Travolta as key celeb acolytes.
Namely their intergalactic emperor – Xenu.
Award winning TV journo Bahsir was interviewing Tommy Davis the head of the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre, for a taping airing on Nightline when the close encounter turned ballistic.
Bashir was grilling Davis about about Scientology’s non-involvement in the treatments of celebrity Scientolo John Travolta’s late son Jett, a closeted autistic.
"Do you know if the church ever advised them not to allow their son to receive certain medications." Bashir asked.
"The church never advised them in any way, shape or form whatsoever on any aspect of their son’s treatment. Never have, never will," Davis replied.
But when Bashir asked of it was true that the alleged church’s founder L. Ron Hubbard, a pulp sci-fi writer who is reputed to have concocted the religion as a tax write-off, believed in the intergalactic emperor Xenu, a key figure in Scientolo doctrine, Davis said he wouldn’t discuss "disgusting perversions" of the religion, got up, removed his mike and stormed off – with cameras still shooting.
According to the NY Post, 45 minutes before the show was to air Davis showed up at ABC Studios on the Upper West Side in New York, demanding to see Bashir.
"He demanded to a security guard that he be let in," a network insider divulged.
"The guard called Nightline staffers down to come deal with him. He was told as politely as possible that the piece was cut and in the can and could not be changed and that Martin would be unable to see him.
"He was then asked to leave."
The source said the Scientology kingpin was "NOT happy."
