For the first time, Academy award-winning, screenwriter-director Paul Haggis is speaking out about his three decades with the Church of Scientology and why he quit the controversial religion in 2009.
"I was in a cult for 34 years," he tells the latest issue of the New Yorker of his time in the church."Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't."
Haggis - whose screenwriting credits include Crash and Million Dollar Baby - says he joined the church for a sense of belonging. "There was a feeling of camaraderie that was something I'd never experienced; all these atheists looking for something to believe in, and all these loners looking for a club to join," he says.
But when the church declined to publicly denounce Proposition 8, the measure that banned same-sex marriages in California, he said he just had to leave.
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