TRANSCRIPT:
Well, Hana Eltringham [Whitfield] is brought in at 27:30. And, you know, I’m not going to get into a big—you know, I’m not getting into a big thing, but Hana Eltringham has just been a known drama queen on the subject of Scientology for many, many years. But, you know, it’s the omissions that are amazing.
I mean, she’s very dramatic and “rah, rah, rah.” But there’s no balance whatsoever. Number one, a lot of what she says is sort of discredited by the fact that they don’t tell you what is said in the book [Going Clear ]. And it’s not said in order to try to discredit her, but it discredits her in the movie.
What was she trying to get out of Scientology? After all, that’s what Lawrence Wright said this was all about, the movie, the book, the whole thing. “What allures you and what keeps you…” right. What allured her was she had some involvement with a crazy aunt who was a Rosicrucian, who told her that there was—that “Rosicrucian mythology said that later in the century there’s going to be a redhead guru that appears and he’s going to be a vessel of God, right. And you need to….”
And that’s why she joined, because L. Ron Hubbard had red hair. And she wanted to be at the feet of the Lord. No wonder she didn’t understand anything she ever learned. She wasn’t there for that. She wanted to be a supplicant to the chosen one.
Okay, number one—number two, you know, she condemns this whole subject and, you know, says, “It’s a fraud when,” just like [Paul] Haggis, “It’s a fraud when I saw this stuff,” and of course she’s still in it another twenty years after she’s already determined that it’s a fraud…okay.
But of course, you know, even after she left Scientology, she was still trying to monopolize the technology of Scientology and brought a suit for a billion dollars to destroy Scientology and was booted out of court. It was only then that she went on the circuit of this and did this whole shtick of this dramatic sort of damsel who—okay. I mean, just some context, that’s all. Because she takes us—she goes on and on saying these things that are just…you know. And they use her and Paul to just make—people who never, either didn’t get it or didn’t want to get it—talk about the core of Scientology. And so it’s just, the bizarre that we’ve got to this far, is just compounded through that.
I mean, look it, Larry Wright, you know, had me devote all sorts of manner of time to go through so he would understand Scientology. Watch the film and see how much explaining of Scientology I’m doing in the film: zero. They’ve literally taken bites of where, you know, I had some criticism of something organizationally or personally, nothing about the substance of Scientology. You know, it’s based on the invention of Gibney and Wright and then exacerbated by Eltringham and Haggis.
