Scientology's latest celeb by Jeanette Walls, The Scoop , February 24, 1999. Add Jenna Elfman's name to the long list of vocal celebrity Scientology supporters. In an interview that appears in the next issue of Mirabella, the hot, Golden Globe-winning star of "Dharma and Greg" defends the controversial religion, whose members include John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Kirstie Alley. In it, says a source who has seen the article, she discusses smoking pot and doing dancing gigs (she was on tour with ZZ Top as a "She's Got Legs" girl) before she was introduced to Scientology by her husband, Bodhi, an actor and writer. Now, when she's down, she goes to the E-meter, a device used by Scientologists for "auditing" someone's mental state - but which some critics say is merely a lie detector. "You know how your head feels heavy when you're having a problem?" she tells the magazine. "It's actually mass that you can weigh. It's compressed mental energy. And the E-meter sees changes in that." Quote from the Mirabella interview: "Bodhi [Elfman, her husband] also introduced her to the Church of Scientology. 'He didn't push it on me or anything. I started becoming curious, from hearing him talk about it. I took a course where you get the basic concepts. It was everything I felt I already knew, but I was missing pieces, so I couldn't apply it to life.' She doesn't proselytize'our founder, L. Ron Hubbard, says if it's true for you, it's true for you, and if it's not, it's not. There are all these misconceptions about someone pushing it on you'but says that Scientology restored her confidence and helped her focus on career goals. 'I went, This is for meI like this! It just kind of cleared everything out.' | |
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