Former top Scientology official claims John Travolta is gay – Marca English
Former Scientologist Mike Rinder says he once saw John Travolta kiss a male massuer
The 67-year-old left the organization back in 2007, and is detailing his experiences in his memoir ‘A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology”.
In it, Rinder says he was assigned to help Travolta with some public relations issues when he witnessed the kiss. Travolta’s love life has been a topic of discussion for years, and Rinder says he was brought in by the church to quiet talk about it.
“Since the beginning of the ’90s, Travolta had been hounded by stories from various alleged male lovers, including one of his former pilots as well as a porn star,” Rinder writes.
“Realizing the potential PR damage a story of gay sex would have on the perfect Scientology couple of John and Kelly [Preston, Travolta’s then-wife], we dug up dirt on the sources and threatened the media with lawsuits.”
Travolta and the kiss
Rinder says he met with the Pulp Fiction star in a hotel suite. That’s when Travolta’s masseur walked into the room in a bathrobe and kissed the actor on the mouth.
“‘I’ll be in soon,’ John said as the masseur headed toward the bedroom,” Rinder writes. “That was pretty shocking, right in front of a senior Scientology official. It was just not done. I guess it was indicative of the trust he placed on me.”
Rinder says that while the church claims not to be anti-gay, “the threat of a story describing a Scientologist as gay would cause panic internally because for a Scientologist, not being ‘cured’ of homosexuality would indicate, that the tech doesn’t work.”