Scientology leader's niece claims 'cult' destroyed her marriage in explosive new videos

Daily Mail/October 19, 2024

By Alex Hammer

The niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige has blamed the organization for destroying her marriage in a bombshell series of videos packed with explosive allegations.

Jenna Miscavige, 40, blames what she calls the 'cult' of the Church of Scientology as she reveals chilling details about the breakdown of her marriage.

Jenna divorced her husband, Dallas Hill, 44, last year and now lives in California with her two children. The couple both grew up in the Church of Scientology and met as kids there before leaving in 2005.

In the video, the mom-of-two claimed her marriage was unable to recover from the distrust sowed by the web of spies she claims the organization inserted into her life.

The Church of Scientology 'did their darndest to make life hell for us' she says. The church denied all of her allegations in a statement to DailyMail.com.

Jenna is the daughter of Elizabeth 'Bitty' Miscavige and Ron Miscavige Jr, the elder brother of controversial Scientology leader David Miscavige. Ron left the church in 2000 while David has faced a series of lawsuits, including human trafficking allegations.

A spokesperson for the Church previously denied the allegations, calling them 'absurd, ridiculous, scurrilous and blatantly false'.

Meanwhile, after Jenna left the organization, she became one of its most vocal critics, publishing a best-selling memoir titled 'My Secret Life Inside Scientology' and 'My Harrowing Escape'.

She met her future husband, Dallas, as a child at a Florida boarding school, where the pair were training to become members of Scientology's Sea Organization. She claims they were made to work grueling 14-hour days, seven days a week.

Her husband, first hesitant, left with her at the last minute - even after he allegedly cooperated with other scientologists to have her ousted and his status saved. Hill did not respond to DailyMail.com when asked about Jenna's claims.

She claims she and her husband 'were being followed by Scientology' for years, and the organization 'was inserting spies into our life'. She says that created a painful web of distrust and paranoia, especially when it overlapped with their family's complex links to the church.

She also accused Dallas' family of reporting on them to Scientology and giving information about them.

'[This] went on for many more years, and it really created a huge divide in the family,' she said.

'[It] made it very hard to be happy after leaving Scientology and to get on with life.'

'I was like the black sheep.

'Scientology cut me and Dallas off from many people, even though we tried to tell them all of the horrible things that Scientology had done.'

'It just built this whole sort of tension around Dallas choosing Scientology or his family over me that just never really went away,' she said in the footage.

'I just wanted to tell the story, because Scientology just made it so hard for us to be married, for us to be loyal to each other, for us to have happy times together.

'And even when we were gone, they still just did their darndest to make life hell for us,' she says.

'So issues upset within the family that, just after so many years of it, became impossible to recover from - and, um, honestly that is how Scientology destroyed my marriage.'

In other videos, she claimed as a child she would haul rocks instead of receiving an education, on a chain gang while isolated from her parents.

Her parents, Ron and Bitty, left the church in 2000, when she was still 16 and enrolled in the work camp.

Both members of the Sea Org, the pair wanted Jenna to leave as well - but she says she refused because of her isolation, the fact she hadn't seen them for years, and because her only loved ones at the time were Scientologists at the center.

Jenna has 28 videos on her channel, most of which have been posted in the past few weeks as she continues to critique the organization she grew up in.

One of the recent videos, in which she attacks the religion infamously embraced by John Travolta and Tom Cruise, is titled 'Scientology ruined my life.'

She started the slew of videos in May with an interview with new boyfriend Aaron Smith-Levin - another former Scientologist who left the church more than 20 years ago. He has since become a prominent critic of the Church and has his own YouTube channel.

Smith-Levin has also previously been accused of plotting to illegally hack Church computers, and appeared in press reports in 2022 over an alleged incident in Clearwater where he was accused of making vulgar insults to a woman. Her boyfriend responded by punching him in the face, Florida Politics reported.

No one was charged and at the time he blamed the incident on the stress of leaving the Church, according to Tampa Bay Times.

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