Whitney Mills 1982-2022

The Church of Scientology issued a statement in response to the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Whitney Mills’ mother following her daughter’s tragic suicide in 2022. In its statement, the Scientology Cult vehemently denies that it gets involved in the medical decisions of its members. We post Scientology’s statement below.

Following Scientology’s statement we post a Scientology policy letter proving just how involved Scientology gets involved in the medical issues and decisions of its members. In this document captioned Checklist Of Guidelines for Compiling An Illegal PC Petition, the Church instructs its staff to compile medical records including all prescribed medications taken by a Scientologist classified as an “Illegal PC.”

An Illegal PC (PC = Preclear) refers to any Scientologist deemed ineligible to receive Scientology services due to past prescription drug use, psychiatric treatment, and other reasons.

An illegal PC may petition for reclassification to receive auditing after completing the checklist. Again,  Scientology specifically asks the petitioner to provide their medical records including all medications and dosages, medical treatments, and dates. This is all very specific and puts the lie to Scientology’s claim that it does not give medical advice. We say this because the Scientology is 1) anti-drug, and 2) the document below clearly indicates that Scientology evaluates the medical information of its members and then tells them what they must do medically in order to be approved for auditing. As a baseline, all Scientologists must do the Purification Rundown which involves consuming megadoses of niacin, vitamins, drinking oils, while sitting in a sauna for five hours per day. This is done for an indeterminate period of time.

There are numerous examples of Scientology meddling in the medical treatment of its members.  Tori Christman, for example, was told to discontinue her epilepsy medication. After having life-threatening grand mal seizures, Tori went back on her medication and later left the Church. The indisputable fact that Scientology’s demands medical information and medical records from its members is proof of its extreme involvement in the medical decisions of its members. 

We conclude by posting an excerpt from one of Scientology’s four mandatory contracts all Scientologists must sign. In this contract, Scientologists repudiate psychiatry altogether and demand that should they ever be psychiatrically confined, they expect Scientologists to come to their assistance and use the contract to immediately effectuate their release from psychiatric confinement. The Scientologist then contractually agrees that Scientology officials can place them into the Introspection Rundown.

The Introspection Rundown is the isolation program into which Lisa McPherson was placed after her psychiatric emergency on a street in Clearwater. McPherson died 17 days later and Scientology was criminally charged in her death. Former RTC Inspector General Mark Rathbun stated that OSA spent $100 million dollars in legal fees over several years to get the criminal charges dropped. This was accomplished when Coroner Joan Woods, after years of extreme pressure from Scientology, changed the cause of death changed from “undetermined” to “accident.” 

There are other Scientology policies which show the Cult’s direct involvement in the medical issues of its members. Contrary to Scientology’s claims that it does not offer medical advice, the writings of L. Ron Hubbard are replete with dozens of claims that Dianetics and Scientology can cure cancer, asthma, leukemia, and numerous other diseases. Hubbard claimed that most diseases are psychosomatic in origin and can be eliminated by using Scientology to locate and erase the engrams which cause these diseases.

On the OT levels, Scientologists learn that BT’s and BT Clusters are the actual source of diseases. By telepathically auditing these entities, they blow and leave the body. The diseases these BT’s and BT’s clusters “were being” are eliminated. This is Hubbard OT doctrine. 

1. Scientology’s statement on Whitney Mills death by suicide: 

2. Scientology’s Checklist Of Guidelines for Compiling An Illegal PC Petition:

3. An excerpt from Scientology’s “Kidnap Contract” which is captioned Agreement and General Release Regarding Spiritual Assistance:

A PDF Copy of Scientology’s Kidnap Contract: