'It'll hurt to lose your wife of 30 years.
This was handled professionally and elegantly, I really admire the way he did it, he made Scientology a non-part of Kelly's death.' 'In the Church, they'd say you lost Jett, so that's why you got cancer, so we need to audit that out,' Augustine explained. Jeffrey Augustine, another former member of the church and open critic of the organization's practices, claims Travolta's statement 'shows they've backed away from Scientology.'Īugustine cited one of Hubbard's lectures from 1959 in which he claimed cancer was caused by 'a second-dynamic or sexual upset, such as the loss of children or some other mechanism' as one of the reasons Travolta may be doubting his devotion to Scientology at the moment.
Ron Hubbard was 'really opposed to chemotherapy and radiation,' one former member told the Daily Mail.