In a feature published by Australia's Women's Day magazine and Tony Ortega's Scientology blog The Underground Bunker, Anette Iren Johansen, who ceased taking classes at the Church in 2010, recalls a bizarre audition process that was reportedly for Cruise.
Johansen was approached for the audition at the organization's Copenhagen location in 2005 when she was 27, said the Hollywood Reporter.
She found the audition a bit bizarre because she was asked personal questions about her life and was required to sign a confidentiality waiver.
A man from California followed-up with her via telephone, asking her if she had any "sexual perversions." She said that she did not. She never heard anything else about the audition.
Ortega said Marc Headley, who reportedly worked on similar auditions before leaving Scientology, corroborates Johansen's story.
"That was for Tom Cruise, absolutely. Those are the exact same questions that they were asking the other girls," Headley said.
The Church of Scientology has vehemently denied such claims.
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