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Growing up was a very hostile environment with my parents and my older brother, Brett. It was not a very calm, tranquil, environment. There was always conflict in our family—always conflict.
So the three boys—which is: the oldest Brett, next oldest Brandon and myself—grew up in South Africa until about 1998.
Basically, growing up with my parents was pretty difficult. Just from the time that us children were little, my parents had problems with their relationship. I remember at some point during my childhood my dad was wanting to leave our family, which was very confusing for us children. And I just remember my mom crying all the time. And, anyways, they were always trying—and I remember waking up in the middle of the night to my dad, you know, drunk, stumbling in the hallway, and being very scared because I didn’t know what was wrong with him. And that was—the majority of my childhood was my dad drinking heavily, being very racist against black people, sexist against women, racist against Asian drivers. You name it, he had a problem with them.
And as I mentioned, my dad would always talk about Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. I mean, that’s just the kind of mindset that these people had.
So my environment as a child, was already pretty hostile to begin with. And the same for Brandon, because of my parents, Gary and Lois—they just, that’s the way it was—it was a hostile environment.
I just know Brandon, when he was a child growing up, was attacked for, you know, maybe not talking quickly enough or not wanting to play sports and instead do something else—and was just constantly harped on. If there was anyone in our home videos getting in trouble or whatever, it seemed to be Brandon most of the time.
And that was when we were in South Africa. Then we came to America in 1998. And again, he was doing okay until about, I think he must have been in 7th grade or 8th grade. And I was in 6th grade. And he had like a psychotic break, essentially. And I’ve never seen anybody as depressed as he was, and as sad, and not really computing with what was going on around him. And just very, very, very sad, like not talking for days.
And then that continued for awhile until finally my parents decided to send him to South Africa because, one, my grandparents had a Life Improvement Center there where they would help people, and then also because my family—it’s a different environment in South Africa. So he was just going to go stay with them. And he did, he stayed there for, I believe it was about three months or so.
And he got some spiritual help and he just changed completely and just became like a bright light. He was funny. This personality that had never been there all through our childhood, all of a sudden came out and he was like a blossoming flower, you know—just became the life of the family. And it continued that way.
And immediately ran into problems with my parents, as well as my brother Brett. They kind of gave him a hard time and antagonized him about Scientology. And my brother Brett at that time had been smoking pot.
Until eventually—we’re talking, maybe it was six months to a year from then, or maybe two years—but over the time of just being attacked, etc., he had another psychotic break.
You know, slowly over time he ended up, with my help, getting connected to the local Scientology organization in San Diego. And then he just started doing really well. He stopped drinking, he stopped smoking pot, and he started to—his whole life started to change and he started to do a lot better again.
And, you know, my parents did encourage me to go to South Africa to the same place my brother was going—my grandparent’s Life Improvement Center—and get help. And my life changed like you cannot believe. It was just unbelievable. So I come back and I’m doing so well, my whole life’s changed. And the hostility started. Just like what happened with Brandon. My parents began to attack myself. But not even just Scientology, they attacked me, my fiancée, my goals, my hopes, my dreams.
They started mocking me about my job that I was doing outside of volunteering, and saying that, I was poor, and I would never be able to do anything, and couldn’t go traveling. Anyways, they would just attack all parts of my life, my parents would.
I was just like, “Okay, I’m actually just like going to take a break from you guys for a little bit. I don’t—you know, that was just something that I wanted to do. They weren’t in trouble or anything like that. I just didn’t want to deal with them anymore because they’d been upsetting myself and my fiancée all the time.
And then at that time I was still receiving communications from Brandon, and I began to notice a change where all of the sudden, you know, the personality and the bright, happy, funny—like he’s actually hilarious—person, began to disappear, and they began to depersonalize Brandon and break him down. And it got worse and worse and his communication started to be a little more psychotic and, and not so sane.
And this eventually led to my parents with the show that’s going on, the Leah Remini show, essentially coordinated to take my bother Brandon into Mexico, attack his personality, depersonalize him, cause him to go into a psychotic break. And then he drives my dad’s car, takes my parents’ hammer and drives up the coast. First knocking on my door at 2:00 in the morning, screaming, yelling, threatening, trying to break down my door. Then drives more miles up the coast to the Church of Scientology Los Angeles and threw a hammer through the window. Which is exactly the kind of thing that would occur after he had been bullied, crushed, defeated as a person by my parents and brother.
And that’s the gist of it. They caused my brother to go psychotic. They made that happen. It’s extremely obvious actually. And it’s the same pattern that’s been going on his whole childhood. And you know, that’s just how they roll. It’s like they don’t care about Brandon, they don’t care about me, they don’t care about our happiness, and how well we’re doing. I honestly think they’re quite happy with him being psychotic, at this point. He may still be, I’m not sure. But they brought that about. And they were quite fine with him going into a psychiatric ward for the next two weeks after he was arrested, which they themselves created by totally destroying him and destroying his beingness. So that’s what they did.
