Mark Rathbun on Sergio Gil’s Invented Tale for a Smear Campaign

Mark Rathbun exposes how an invented story by Sergio Gil was used in an attempted smear campaign that ABC 20/20 saw right through.

TRANSCRIPT:

When I began to break ranks publicly with this cult—the ASC [Anti-Scientology Cult]—I received a blackmail threat from the ASC: “Shut up or we’re exposing your crimes from when you were in Scientology.” And like I said, I laughed about it, because I’ve been an open book. Unlike Mike Rinder who can’t remember a goddamn thing about anything that he ever did to anybody and keeps referring to all this stuff that happened on his watch as “they,” right. And so, I laughed.

Four months later, they tried to get—they dragged some kid [Sergio Gil] out who never said anything about this, in the four months that they had him blathering on blogs, okay, never mentioned my name, never mentioned anything—all of a sudden they tried to ambush me with a [ABC TV] 20/20 special where this guy said that I participated in the cover up of him being raped as a 15-year-old boy by an adult. Okay.

I never even heard of the guy in my entire life or anything. ABC didn’t run with it. The point is though, these people that are getting unlimited bucks for rolling out this infotainment/entertainment “docuseries, reality show” about “sexual abuses” being covered up, right, have already—they’re already demonstrated to have invented them. They invented it against me, okay.

And ABC wouldn’t run with it, when they realized they were being taken to the cleaners, okay. And yet now they are going to do a whole season of this.