Tom Cruise Brought Me In. Charlie Kirk Got Me Kicked Out.
4/16/20261 hr 7 min
He worked with Tom Cruise's daughter, but UK Scientologist Amir Essalhi JUST left the cult.
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First 90 secondsAndrew Gold· Host0:00
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Amir Essalhi· Guest0:19
Yeah, big time. Big time. Tom Cruise is how I even heard about it.
Andrew Gold· Host0:22
You basically signed up because of Tom Cruise.
Amir Essalhi· Guest0:26
Yeah.
Andrew Gold· Host0:26
And in some ways, were kicked out because of Charlie Kerr.
Amir Essalhi· Guest0:29
Well, that's interesting. So the story goes that Tom was looking for a girlfriend.
Andrew Gold· Host0:34
She didn't know what she was in for, and then suddenly it's like, "You're Tom Cruise's girlfriend."
Amir Essalhi· Guest0:37
It's just like, what the hell? Tom would come and try and wine and dine people in the UK, Tony Blair, to try and, and get them charity-exempt.
Andrew Gold· Host0:45
Leah Remini claims that he, Tom Cruise, administered punishment himself. He's turned into something else.
Amir Essalhi· Guest0:50
I did one day of carrying weights up and down, up and down, up and down 1968 spiral stairs, and then working in the renovations for no pay. That was my punishment for speaking to a guy on YouTube, just like I'm speaking to you right now. They were like, "There's a word that he doesn't understand."
Andrew Gold· Host1:05
What was the word?
Amir Essalhi· Guest1:06
Uh, I don't know.
Andrew Gold· Host1:07
[laughs] Maybe they were right. [laughs] You need to know that word.
Amir Essalhi· Guest1:10
Asshole.
Andrew Gold· Host1:11
Why didn't you walk out?
Amir Essalhi· Guest1:12
I was told that I was lying flat on my back.
Andrew Gold· Host1:14
You very recently left, or were kicked out of Scientology. I wanna get all into your story. It's, it's, it's crazy, uh, and, and what you were doing there, and all of that. But I wanna ask you, the, the main thing that people always wanna know, they're always asking me about, is Tom