How L. Ron Hubbard's Family Escaped Scientology!

Not many former Church of Scientology members have come forward to discuss what goes on behind the scenes of the controversial organization. Sure, enough have done so to show us there’s definitely smoke — but very few from the inner circles who can really show us the fire.

That’s why the idea of an interview with Guy White was so intriguing… little did we know how many more questions we’d have after!

White married Suzette Hubbard in 1986, making him the son-in-law of church founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Now the former member of Scientology’s first family is coming forward to spill some very disturbing claims about some big changes in the Church — courtesy of current leader David Miscavige.

White has a wild story to tell, and he’s finally ready to tell it in a bombshell interview with DailyMailTV:

“I have never wanted to speak out earlier because I’ve been followed, I’ve had Private Investigators on me, it’s very intrusive.

You know what the deal with the devil is like, ‘Don’t speak out against us and then we won’t make your life hell.” I didn’t want my life to be hell because that would be hell for my children. But they’re adult now and I always felt the story needed to be told.”

White was only 19 when he joined the Church after falling in love with the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. For years he rose through the ranks, devoting his life to them.

Then he says one day he was called in for a meeting — and ended up locked in a room alone for hours.

“I’m locked in that room and after several hours I’m told to write up your transgressions. And I’m like grasping at what’s going on.”

The next morning, White says, the door finally opens, and it’s Miscavige.

“He walks up to me, grabs my lanyard, rips it off me [then] backhands me. My glasses go off flying and break and then he spits in my face. I have no idea what this is for. I don’t know why I’m in trouble. And he says, ‘People are being prosecuted for what you’ve done.'”

Rather than being told what he did wrong, he claims was given an e-meter reading and then forced to “chip the paint off the boilers” of the Los Angeles headquarters, aka “Big Blue.”

Church of Scientology Los Angeles — General view of the Scientology Celebrity Centre and Church in Los Angeles. / (c) WENN

That allegedly lasted 30 days, cleaning the boilers while being watched by guards.

WTF??

Eventually he was “promoted” to a re-education program. That’s where he met Suzette. After years of slow, hidden courtship they married in 1986.

White says he planned to ask for L. Ron Hubbard’s permission but never got the chance.

The science fiction author had been in hiding for five years, since just after his wife Mary Sue and eight other Church members were convicted on charges of conspiring against the US government. L. Ron, an unindicted co-conspirator, reportedly worried his wife would flip on him.

So, after years of not seeing or hearing from their patriarch, Suzette and her mother and siblings were informed he was dead:

“As she told it to me, the family were called individually into a room, informed that their father had died, handed a piece of paper, told these were his wishes, and signed it.

They were taken one by one. We later learned that Hubbard had had a stroke. He was very, very ill [for months] but nobody knew anything. Suzette didn’t even know he was sick. No family members were ever called to Creston.

And we later learn that on the day he dies this doctor [who had been with him from his first stroke almost to his last] wasn’t there. He was in Las Vegas that day.”

If that all seems sketchy, wait until you hear this — White reveals:

“It was announced that Hubbard had moved on to do further research which he didn’t need a body for, so he has discarded the body. For me personally, nothing seemed right.”

But there still was a body — and a medical examination.

“No family member ever saw the body. Years later I got a copy of the coroner’s report. There were multiple injection sites where he was getting Visteral which is an anti-psychotic drug. He was unkempt. He had long fingernails that were dirty.”

Eventually White told Suzette what he found out:

“When I did tell her she broke down and said, ‘This says so much about what was going on.’ Her father was a very proud man and one of the things is that he would take care of his hands. She said she was angry that those people were not caring or him.”

Not only that, according to White, Hubbard’s will was changed the day before his death.

Yeah. And it gets more suspicious, at least as far as White is concerned. He muses:

“Supposedly it was his signature but there are many people who were trained over the years to answer his mail and his messages and the messengers actually practiced signing his name. But whether he signed it or not, what shape is he in with the second stroke and on anti-psychotic medication?”

Naturally, the new will “moved a lot of money from the family onto the Church.”

As Miscavige took over, things changed for the worse, says White — starting with the family of L. Ron Hubbard “getting erased.” For instance:

“There was a policy letter that Suzette had worked on. It was originally, L. Ron Hubbard assisted by Suzette Hubbard. But Suzette gets erased. There was a book called the Science of Survival dedicated to Diana Hubbard. If you pull a copy today there’s no Diana. She’s gone.”

Then when Suzette got pregnant, he says the rules suddenly changed:

“An issue comes out saying children are not allowed in the organization anymore. Basically children are a distraction.”

WTF?? During all this, both of them were knocked down to menial jobs, claiming Suzette was forced to do Miscavige’s laundry. Like, as her full-time job.

Then a couple years later:

“There was to be no Family Time – an hour that families would take usually after dinner.”

This was apparently something Suzette’s father had been adamant about when she was growing up.

Then in 1989 Suzette ran away with their son. Not even White knew where.

“She hadn’t told me to protect me. If you know of someone planning to leave you are obligated to report them otherwise you’re guilty as well.”

White recalls trying to escape to be with her — but being found by guards and brought back. He asked why Suzette hadn’t been brought back:

“I was told that because Suzette was with her mother at this point, the concern was that Mary Sue would ‘go legal.’ I said, so what is the plan for Mary Sue? And they said, ‘To let her live out her life.’

And it was at that point that everything fell apart because if you believe in reincarnation how is ‘living out your life’ any sort of solution? And if you believe in Hubbard’s technology to handle suppressive people why wouldn’t you use it?

Then I realized, standing there with my poker face, that the organization that I thought that I was part of didn’t actually exist.”

Really. THAT’S when he figured it out. Huh. OK.

He eventually planned another escape, using his regular feeding of the guard dogs (a Church with guard dogs, totally cool and normal, right?) to slip out one night:

“As soon as I go the dogs start barking, betrayed, the big lights come on and I just run.”

He describes almost being caught by the Jeeps patrolling the compound.

“At one point there’s a hairpin turn and all of a sudden I see lights shooting out in front of me, but they haven’t made the turn and I just dive off the road before those lights can hit me. And I’m tumbling down but it’s okay. I’m going and so I keep going.”

He says he finally reached a small town called Hemet, CA and sought refuge in the first structure he could — a bowling alley which was closed for the night. But the cleaners heard him pounding on the door:

“They brought me in, closed the door and locked it behind me. I was elated. I was happy for the first time in a long time because I felt safe.”

He was reunited with Suzette, and they stayed together for seven years after that, having two more kids along the way.

However, the freedom of being outside the Church’s rules eventually led White to another revelation about himself: he was gay.

“Suzette was very gracious. At one point it was like, ‘Do we keep the marriage?’ Personally, I didn’t think it was fair to me or Suzette and we ended up getting divorced.”

Suzette had come to the same conclusion he had, losing her faith in her father’s religion.

None of their children were raised as Scientologists.

BTW, a Church spokesperson has denied White’s story, saying: