Oprah's Scientology Connection Pays Off
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Oprah's Scientology Connection Pays Off?
Talker Snags Lisa Marie Interview On Michael Jackson
OPRAH'S FRIENDSHIP WITH JOHN TRAVOLTA SEEMS TO BE PAYING OFF HANDSOMELY WITH THE talk show host bagging the first interview with Lisa Marie Presley about her marriage to dead pop idol Michael Jackson.
Travolta is a Scientologist and is credited with introducing Elvis Presley's widow Priscilla to the controversial "religion" that some call a cult. He is reportedly flying the plane that will take Oprah's audience from her 25th season opener to Australia, and Oprah has reportedly called him her "soulmate."
Lisa Marie publicly defended Travolta and Scientology on Twitter last year after critics blamed the organization and Travolta for his son Jett's death.
“Actually John Travolta was one of the first texts I got" after Michael died,’ Lisa Marie told Oprah, who recorded the interview at Presley’s East Sussex estate in London.
Lisa Marie said she was “floored, honestly floored,” then, later that same night, in a “flood of tears.”
During the free-wheeling interview, Lisa described her marriage to Michael as dazzlingly satisfying.
“I have never felt so high in my life,’’ she said. “He had something so intoxicating about him.”
She says she never witnessed anything that led her to believe he was a pedophile. But she did describe him as a master manipulator with a “godlike life” who discarded people that threatened his reality.
Oprah, herself a deity, stared knowingly.
Lisa Marie admitted that she dumped her first husband Danny Keough, with whom she had two small children, to marry Michael. But the marriage only lasted 18 months because Michael choose the sycophant “vampires” over her.
”I was so angry because I felt that we …were so united. And then at some point he pushed me out.”
But even after they divorced 18 months later, she continued to accompany him on trips around the world.
Now married to her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, and living in England while raising twin daughters, Lisa Marie expressed regret that she didn’t do anything to stop Michael from abusing prescription drugs. And she said that Michael’s family tried but he pushed them further away. “They got on the opposite side of that.”
His death, she says, has brought back her love for him.
“I’ve come to have all this love again and this understanding for him,’’ she said. “And I don’t know why it had to take all that to have this happen.”
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Comments
Good PR story.
Posted by: gOD | October 31, 2010 08:48 PM
He pushed her out was probably meant to because she wasn't a true soul mate.A true soul mate would have been chosen over the top of the vampires.
Posted by: Stevie | October 22, 2010 07:00 PM
Posted by: Stevie | October 31, 2010 08:47 PM
So the vampires were the true soulmates, I guess.
Posted by: Jeff | October 31, 2010 08:46 PM
It's simple, scientology uses marriage as a recruitment tool and Presley married Jackson in order to try to pull him into the cult meanwhile attempting to defuse the rumors of pedophilia that were swarming around him. Scientology is an evil mind control cult that destroys families and will stop at nothing to recruit celebrities to better their image.
Posted by: TheSkepticAl | October 31, 2010 08:46 PM
Travolta, Presley, Cruise, all their hangers-on, are a bunch of losers living out of the real world. They may be very nice people but they know from the inside how Scientology has abused them and to use emotional blackmail to recruit further victims is truly evil.
Posted by: Willy | October 31, 2010 08:45 PM