Jenna Miscavige Hill

Jenna Miscavige Hill (born February 1, 1984 in Concord , New Hampshire , USA) is an American scientology dropout and author.

Life

After leaving Scientology in 2005, she became a critic of the organization. She is the daughter of Ron Miscavige, Jr. and the niece of current Scientology leader David Miscavige .

Hill founded the website exscientologykids.com with Kendra Wiseman and Astra Woodcraft, who also grew up in Scientology families . She was interviewed by a wide variety of media outlets about her experience within Scientology, including ABC's Nightline in April 2008 and on Piers Morgan Tonight in February 2013, speaking on specifics of Scientology.

In 2000, when Hill was 16, her father and mother left Scientology. Hill explained that because of Scientology's ordered disconnection with relatives and friends who do not support or are hostile to Scientology, letters from her parents were intercepted and she was not allowed to answer the phone for a year.

She describes her experience between the ages of five and twelve as follows: “We had to write down all of our transgressions, similar to sin in the Catholic Church . After we wrote them all down, we were checked with an e-meter to make sure we weren't keeping anything to ourselves; we had to write until the device gave the green light. "(" We were also required to write down all transgressions ... similar to a sin in the Catholic religion. After writing them all down, we would receive a meter check on the electropsychometer to make sure we weren't hiding anything, and you would have to keep writing until you came up clean. "She is married and has three children.

Publications

In September 2012, she announced that she would describe her life story in her book Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape . It was published in January 2013 by William Morrow by HarperCollins . She wrote the book together with Lisa Pulitzer . It also appeared in German translation under the title My secret life in Scientology and my dramatic escape . It reached the Spiegel bestseller list in April 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jenna Miscavige Hill in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ex-Scientology Kids: Jenna Miscavige Hill tells her story in her own words

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jenna Miscavige Hill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
2. ^ ^{A b} Philip Recchia: Family feud in Tom's church . In: New York Post , February 6, 2008. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 10, 2008.  
3. ↑ Brian Braiker: The Passion of 'Anonymous' . In: Newsweek . February 8, 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
4. ^ David Sarno: Scientology taking hits online . In: Los Angeles Times . March 3, 2008. Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
5. ↑ Dawn Olsen: Jenna Miscavige Hill Helps Out Children Trapped By Scientology With New Site ExScientologyKids.com . In: Technorati , March 1st, 2008. Archived from the original on December 30th, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 2, 2011.  
6. ↑ Lisa Fletcher: Niece of Scientology Leader Shares Her Story: Watch the Interview With Jenna Miscavige Hill Tonight on 'Nightline' . In: Nightline . ABC News. April 24, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
7. ↑ Lisa; Ethan Nelson, Maggie Burbank Fletcher: Ex-Scientology Kids Share Their Stories: Former Scientologists, Including Church Leader's Niece, Share Stories With 'Nightline' . In: Nightline . ABC News. April 24, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
8. ↑ Jonny Jacobsen: Niece of Scientology's leader backs Cruise biography . In: AFP . Google News . January 28, 2008. Archived from the original on January 31, 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
9. ↑ David Krone: Anti-Scientology Protests Continue in Dupont . In: The Hoya . Georgetown University . April 15, 2008. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 25, 2008. 
10. ↑ Family feud in Scientology's upper ranks exposes more oddities . Monsters and Critics . February 6, 2008. Archived from the original on March 13, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 8, 2008. 
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12. ↑ HarperCollins to publish controversial memoir on Scientology . In: Voxy.co.nz , September 26, 2012. 
13. ↑ SPIEGEL bestseller: Books (hardcover) April 30, 2013 ( Memento from April 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )