“It was like getting his title stripped”: John Travolta Despised Tom Cruise for Stealing Away His ‘Deserving’ Medal That Started Their Ridiculous Rivalry
John Travolta is known to make a hit comeback every time he escapes our notice or appears in a dubious film, demonstrating his acting prowess again. Because he welcomes a variety of roles and avoids the looming threat of typecasting, the 69-year-old American actor has a legacy that has had its own ups and downs.
Like many of his Hollywood contemporaries, he has also sought solace in the Church of Scientology during his professional life. The fundamental tenet of religion, which L. Ron Hubbard founded in the 1950s, is that every person has a reactive mind that reacts to life’s traumas, and helps us from experiencing troubles of reality.
Tom Cruise, one of the Church’s most recognizable names alongside current leader David Miscavige, is a high-ranking Scientologist who works alongside John Travolta. Although they share the same religion and are both actors, it has been claimed that the two do not get along because of a dispute that the latter actor started out of “jealousy”.
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John Travolta Has a Long-rumored Rivalry With Tom Cruise!
In 2018, Brendan Tighe, a former Church security guard, revealed to the Daily Mail that John Travolta experienced frustration while serving as an influential member of the group. Problems are said to have started when the current leader of the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige gave Tom Cruise the coveted ‘Freedom Medal of Valor,’ in 2008. The Church’s ‘most devoted member’ was the only recipient of this medal.
Tighe claimed that because of this honor, From Paris with Love actor was extremely “jealous. It’s no secret that Cruise and Travolta despised each other. Travolta did not “recognize Cruise as a superior in any way,” he continued, despite Cruise’s high position in the Church of Scientology.
When explaining the Face/Off’s actor jealousy, Tighe claimed that Travolta had been earlier informed by Miscavige that he was the most devoted Scientologist. This certainly aroused a sense of intolerance for The Taking of Pelham 123 actor, and “So it was like getting his title stripped; he was jealous.” Tighe added.
His ‘jealousy’ Led Him to Pen an ‘Angry Letter’ to David Miscavige
A furious letter to the organization’s leader, David Miscavige, is said to have been written by John Travolta after his resentment and jealousy allegedly erupted. The Get Shorty actor allegedly “dictated a scathing letter” to his driver, who then gave it to Miscavige, according to Tighe.
According to reports, the letter asked, “What the hell was this medal all about?”
However, in response to Brendan Tighe’s earlier remarks, Karin Pouw, an authorized spokesperson for The Church of Scientology International, has refuted the allegations in a statement provided to ‘Far Out.’ Pouw remarked,
“It’s shameful. The source of the hallucinatory allegations, Brendan Tighe, has long since been fully discredited”.
The claims made by Tighe of having inside information about the Scientology religion and its adherents are wholly false, continued Pouw. “He was a security guard at Church premises for a short while, spending much of his time in the control room”.
As per reports, Brendan Tighe and his sister Natalie Tighe were born in the Church.
While the 60-year-old Tom Cruise, real name Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, still has his own suite, on the top floor of the Osceola Inn, which is owned by Scientology.
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Source- Daily Mai
