The niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige has shared the disturbing questions she was asked by the church when she was only 12 years old.
She left the church in 2005
Jenna Miscavige, who left the church of Scientology back in 2005, has been sharing her experience ever since.
In a recent appearance on Minutes With, the 41-year-old shared insight on the type of questions she would get asked by the church during her time there.
They were ‘traumatizing’ questions
Miscavige recalled being asked ‘traumatizing’ questions as a 12-year-old during her time as part of the church of Scientology.
“I knew of Scientology before I knew of anything else,” she said.
She detailed the questions they’d ask her
Miscavige explained the type of questions she was asked by the church, saying, “They would ask anything, from ‘have you stolen anything?’, ‘Were you unproductive?’, ‘Did you flirt with anyone or have sex with anyone before you were married?’”
Miscavige still remembered the first time it happened
“I remember the first interrogation that I got,” she went on.
“I didn’t really know the procedure, and so they just started out asking me if I had done anything bad.”
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The interrogation happened with an ‘E-meter’
Miscavige said she would be interrogated with an ‘E-meter’ – short for ‘electro psychometer’ – which she explained is a device that’s similar to a ‘lie detector’.
She said, “Basically, it puts a tiny current of electricity through one side, goes through here, then back into the E-meter, and then the needle registers what’s going on. It’s sort of like a lie detector.”
The questions had more than one aim
Miscavige said that the interrogators would ask these questions to see ‘if you’re telling the truth’ but would also use it for other Scientology processes such as ‘counselling’.
She claimed that they would often do ‘what’s called the murder routine’.
Miscavige claimed it was to get you to confess
She claimed that routine was where interrogators asked questions about ‘really horrible things’ to get you to confess to something else.
Miscavige said, “[It’s] to make you say, ‘No, I didn’t do that. I just did this’. So they have all these like mental tricks.”
They also had a system of labor
Miscavige also shared they had a labor system, saying, “We had what was called checksheets, which was like ‘read this’. We had to do 30+ hours of manual labor a week.”
“We were told because basically we had a place to live and food to eat, that we had to exchange [and] give as much if not more than we were being given.”
“That’s why we had to work. If we didn’t give back and if we took things for free we would become criminals,” she added.
