Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

After he recovered and got up, he never got back into movie making as much as he had previously.
He made me an actor in one of the movies. Sometimes I'd have to do the same line over and over
again and it would never be right. Too loud, too quiet, not intense, too intense, why aren't you doing
it enthusiastically? He might end up stamping off, away from the set, and screaming that all was
impossible, no one would duplicate what he said. I'd be told to practice a line and get it right for
tomorrow. Everyone was tiptoeing around, waiting for explosions.
One incident was quite dramatic and revelatory. The crew were in a constant state of fear. Every
order that came from him, they would work in a frenzied state to get it done, often through the night,
not stopping for meals, praying it would be right and they wouldn't get into trouble. It was very hot
area. The temperature when I got there was frequently 120 to 130 degrees in the hot desert. It was
extremely dry and you can dehydrate very easily. There was one period when things had got very,
very bad. Some of the crew thought it got too serious and tried to lighten things up. They did a little
video recording intended as a joke, a little humourous sketch that they thought would amuse him.
The theme was to do with something that happened day or two earlier, a big upset. They reenacted
it as a little skit to make it funny and sent him the video. He started playing it and because
they were being funny he took offence and took it to mean they didn't take what he said seriously,
and were mocking him, ridiculing him, making him subject of the joke. He sent them all to the RPF.
It was very, very heavy. They were assigned to the RPF, never this, never that. There was a
tremendous explosion and a big committee of evidence [Scientology trial] over it. I was standing
outside his office waiting for him when he was looking at the tape, then he was going to see me. I
never did get to see him. I heard yelling and screaming and messengers running in and out of the
office. He was yelling that they were mocking him. He was shouting at the TV. He sent messengers
to find the names of everyone involved. Then he thought there might be people not involved but who
knew about it - then he wanted their names and sent them to the RPF as well. I thought it was wise
to slide off somewhere else and wait for him to calm down. He had a local RPF; he had them
everywhere.
I stayed with him at La Quinta until he moved to Hemet in the early part of '79, I think March '79. It
was because of the threat of an FBI raid. He was screaming about it for days, before it happened.
There had been an FBI raid 3 years earlier, but just before this he had heavily mistreated a couple,
Ernie Hartwell and his wife. They left and went back to Vegas and subsequently a car showed up
and someone was taking photographs from it of the property. The GO [Guardian's Office] got news
relayed to Hubbard that the Hartwells were talking to the FBI. Then the GO sent a message that FBI
were taking interest and that triggered his departure.
I think he left in a motor home with Mike and Kima Douglas. They drove to Lake Elsinore, a resort
area not far away. They stayed there for a month or so and then went to Hemet. While they were in
Lake Elsinore everyone moved from La Quinta to Gilman Hot Springs and in April '79 I was
transferred from Gilman to Hemet. It was off Florida St - there were two main streets, one State and
one Florida. Sunny something was an apartment building behind an acupuncture clinic. We had to
take circuitous routes to and from the apartment. I had to continue auditing him.
The reason they sent me there? He didn't want too many people at Hemet - he was still worried
about an FBI raid. I was told he had had a cancer removed from his cheek [actually his forehead], a
tumour, and as result of that I was sent to audit him, initially for day or two at a time, then after about
a week I moved into the apartments. I stayed there until after he left in February 1980. I went back
home to New Zealand in February '80 for a week, and it was during that week he departed with the
two Broekers [Annie and Pat].
The inner circle at Hemet was Pat and Annie Broeker, Clarice Rousseau, Mike and Kima - there