- Guy White, 63, is the first ever Hubbard family member to break their silence to speak out about his time in Scientology in an exclusive DailyMailTV interviewÂ
- White married Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s daughter Suzette in 1986 – the same year Hubbard died of a strokeÂ
- ‘I have never wanted to speak out earlier because I’ve been followed, I’ve had Private Investigators on me, it’s very intrusive,’ he saysÂ
- He tells DailyMailTV that he was imprisoned for 30 days, spit on by church leader David Miscavige and audited for his ‘transgressions’Â
- White says he escaped after Suzette left with their son, when the ‘rise of David Miscavige’ saw the Hubbards shunned and ‘erased’ from ScientologyÂ
- White reveals that none of Hubbards’ family members ever saw his body and the coroner’s report revealed years later there were multiple injection sitesÂ
- According to White, Hubbard’s Will was changed the day before his death and ‘moved a lot of money from the family onto the Church’Â
- He says he ultimately lost faith in the church but gained the freedom to live his truth as a gay man
The son-in-law of L. Ron Hubbard has lifted the lid on the secrets surrounding the death of the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, revealed the power shift that followed as David Miscavige took charge and told of imprisonment in the bowels of the Church’s Los Angeles base, ‘Big Blue,’ and his own dramatic escape in an explosive interview with DailyMailTV.
Guy White, 63, has become the first ever family member to break their silence and speak out about his time in Scientology.
‘I have never wanted to speak out earlier because I’ve been followed, I’ve had Private Investigators on me, it’s very intrusive,’ said White.
‘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.’
Scientology has denied White’s claims in a letter to DailyMailTV, calling the allegations ‘false’.
‘He is reaching back 40 years to manufacture lies about Scientology to capitalize on the popularity of the religion and its leader,’ a church spokesperson said.
Three decades have elapsed since Guy White finally fled Scientology in a dramatic night-time escape from their so-called ‘Happy Valley’ base in the heart of the Soboba Reservation, California.
Months before, it would have been inconceivable to him that he would ever want to leave. He was a member of the Church’s ‘royal family,’ married to Hubbard’s second daughter, Suzette, father of his then infant grandson, Tyson, and Sea Org golden boy.
But that was when he believed he was part of something real. Now the only thing he was certain of was that he was never going back.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMailTV, he has told how the Hubbard family was humiliated and ‘erased’ after the founder’s death and revealed a violent, Kafka-esque encounter with David Miscavige, the Chairman of the Board.
He has also shared the life-changing series of events that ultimately saw him lose his faith but gain the freedom to live his truth as a gay man.
White was just 19 and a student at community college in Portland, Oregon when he was seduced by the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. He took a course in philosophy and Hubbard’s ‘The Fundamentals of Thought,’ was on the syllabus.
White was unaware that the college was a feeder for Scientology and his professor a member of church staff.
He soon became a member of staff too â signing a short contract before moving to Los Angeles and joining the Sea Org, the paramilitary style ‘clergy’ that requires members to sign a billion-year contract.
White recalled, ‘You basically commit your life.’
Over the next five years White rose through the ranks rapidly, zealous in his belief in Scientology’s goal to clear the planet of, ‘war, insanity and crime.’
He ran the ‘organizations’ outside Los Angeles from 19 to 34 and spent a year in Mexico City in charge of Scientology’s growth in Latin America before being called back to LA in 1981.
He was told he was needed there more because the ‘returns’ were greater.
‘I felt that if this is what was needed overall then of course I would [stay],’ he said. ‘But my conscience is telling me that I need to make sure that someone is on the job I’m leaving.’
He left Mexico City fully expecting to return and having learned that he would not, he filed a series of instructions on how his absence should be managed and his replacement found. He set about his new role in LA.
Then, one Friday, White received a call.
‘In management the statistics [sales figures of books and services] come in on Thursdays at two o’clock and you stay up all night long looking at them,’ he explained. ‘This Friday night I’m called over to the management office. I walk in and the executive who greets me goes, ”You’re in trouble.”
‘I couldn’t imagine what that was about.’
White was escorted to the back of the building to a room approximately eight feet wide and 12 feet deep. There was a small window with bars but no glass.