Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

Cruise's more open attitude to Scientology has been attributed to the departure his publicist 14 years, Pat Kingsley, in March 2004. He replaced her with his sister, fellow Scientologist Lee Anne DeVette, who served in that role until November 2005. He then demoted his sister and replaced her with veteran publicist Paul Bloch, from the publicity firm Rogers and Cowan. DeVette explained that it was her decision to work on philanthropic projects rather than publicity. Such restructuring is seen as a move to curtail publicity his views on Scientology, as well as the hard-sell his relationship with Katie Holmes backfiring with the public.
Confessional files
According to statements in May 2010 from former high-ranking member the Church Scientology, Mark Rathbun, who served as Inspector General the Religious Technology Center from 1978 to 2004, Scientology leader David Miscavige ordered that Cruise's Auditing sessions be secretly videotaped. Rathbun had himself been the individual responsible for performing auditing counseling with Cruise. Rathbun wrote on his blog that he had been tasked with auditing Cruise during the period in 2001 directly after he had separated from Nicole Kidman. Rathbun wrote, "I audited a number intensives confessionals on Tom Cruise from July through November 2001. ... By order Miscavige many those sessions were secretly recorded by a well-concealed video camera and voice recorder system built into the VIP auditing room at Celebrity Center International." Rathbun subsequently learned that transcripts the videotapes Cruise were brought to meetings where they would be discussed by top management Scientology. Rathbun wrote that Miscavige would read out information from the reports about Cruise's auditing sessions, "While sipping scotch whiskey at the end the night, Miscavige would read Tom’s overts and withholds ... joking and laughing about the content Tom’s confessions."