You first heard about Chuck Lorre’s Scientology past here, and now he’s spilling it in a memoir

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TONY ORTEGA
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Some of the stories you’ve been seeing over the last couple of days about Chuck Lorre’s memoir Sitcom not only mention that he dishes on his ten years in Scientology, but also that his Scientology past had first been made public in 2019.
Hey, that’s a reference to us at the Underground Bunker! It was an episode of The Kominsky Method that caught our attention that fall because it was unusually good at satirizing Scientology. Someone writing the show really knew their stuff, and gave great lines to Haley Joel Osment, who sounded just like a Sea Org member off his rocker.
In our piece about the episode, we spelled out the dialogue at length, just to savor it and marvel at its accuracy.
Three days later, we came back with a bit of a bombshell. We had heard from Geoff Levin, a musician and former mainstay at the Scientology Hollywood Celebrity Centre, who told us that The Kominsky Method was so spot-on because its creator, Chuck Lorre, had been a dedicated Scientologist in the 1970s, when Geoff knew him well. Here’s what we wrote then:
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I'll be interested to read his book, big fan of 2-1/2 Men and Big Bang Theory. But Tony's not entirely right about Chuck's not making it public until 2019. Back when 2-1/2 Men was current, one of Lorre's end of program 2-second "vanity card" shots clearly poked fun at the OT III story, I happened to spot that when it aired. It said something like "Help, I'm infested with dead space aliens", something like that, but it was unmistakably about that.
 
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