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TONY ORTEGA
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[Mike Rinder and Gail Armstrong]
As the Emily Armstrong story has caught fire with the news media, we have seen the question raised repeatedly: How much of a Scientologist is she?
The Dead Sara singer has joined Linkin Park’s lineup after the band made a return seven years after the death of Chester Bennington, and that announcement was met with an immediate backlash: Not only did Armstrong have a history as a Scientologist, but in 2020 she showed up to support Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson at his criminal arraignment, three years before Masterson was convicted and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. On Friday, Armstrong put out a statement saying she regretted showing up to support Masterson that day, and that she never spoke to him again.
But that statement didn’t contain the word “Scientology.” What wasn’t she saying?
One of our readers pointed out that back in 2012, at the Village Voice we had assembled a list of Scientologists that Mike Rinder identified as prisoners in “The Hole,” the notorious prison that church leader David Miscavige had created to punish his own top lieutenants at Scientology’s secretive Int Base headquarters beginning in 2004, and one of the names on that list was Gail Armstrong.
As in Emily Armstrong’s mother.
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As the Emily Armstrong story has caught fire with the news media, we have seen the question raised repeatedly: How much of a Scientologist is she?
The Dead Sara singer has joined Linkin Park’s lineup after the band made a return seven years after the death of Chester Bennington, and that announcement was met with an immediate backlash: Not only did Armstrong have a history as a Scientologist, but in 2020 she showed up to support Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson at his criminal arraignment, three years before Masterson was convicted and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. On Friday, Armstrong put out a statement saying she regretted showing up to support Masterson that day, and that she never spoke to him again.
But that statement didn’t contain the word “Scientology.” What wasn’t she saying?
One of our readers pointed out that back in 2012, at the Village Voice we had assembled a list of Scientologists that Mike Rinder identified as prisoners in “The Hole,” the notorious prison that church leader David Miscavige had created to punish his own top lieutenants at Scientology’s secretive Int Base headquarters beginning in 2004, and one of the names on that list was Gail Armstrong.
As in Emily Armstrong’s mother.
READ MORE
Mike Rinder: I was in Scientology’s prison with Emily Armstrong’s mom
As the Emily Armstrong story has caught fire with the news media, we have seen the question raised repeatedly: How much of a Scientologist is she?
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