When John Stamos was 17 years previous, he was allegedly recruited to affix the Church of Scientology although his membership didn’t final lengthy.
“With me, I used to be in an performing class and there was a sizzling lady, [who] mentioned to me, ‘You understand we’re all assembly at this [place] on Hollywood Boulevard, it’s best to come after [class],’” Stamos, 61, recalled on the Sunday, August 25, episode of the “Buddies in Excessive Locations” podcast. “I used to be working at my dad’s restaurant on the time and I mentioned, ‘Dad, I gotta go.’ So, I went and it was the Scientology constructing.”
It was each the “sizzling lady” and his performing idol, John Travolta, who impressed Stamos to go to the assembly.
“Seeing [Grease] was like, ‘I wanna be that,” Stamos recalled. “I wished to be John Travolta, I nonetheless do. Properly, minus the no matter it’s that they do.”
Travolta, 70, joined the Church of Scientology in 1975. Stamos, in the meantime, by no means made it previous one of many introductory periods.
After Stamos arrived on the church, he was introduced into the Scientology constructing and launched to a equipment generally known as the “E-Meter,” which was made out of two cans. (The church claims that its electropsychometer gadget can point out adjustments in emotional states to determine saved engrams and “ranges of religious misery,” per a web site description.) The Full Home alum instantly began taking part in round with the gadget, pretending to carry a faux cellphone dialog.
“I used to be doing a Peabody and Sherman [impression] they usually didn’t like that,” Stamos claimed. “Then, I used to be simply f–king round a lot, they mentioned, ‘Get out [and] get going.’ They simply kicked me out.”
After podcast host Matt Buddy joked that Stamos was “too annoying” to affix the controversial group, the actor concurred.
“That’s fairly unhealthy, I should have been horrible,” Stamos quipped.
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Stamos beforehand detailed his expertise with the Church of Scientology in his 2023 memoir, If You Would Have Advised Me.
“I’m strolling to my automobile and Mia runs out and arms me my workbooks,” Stamos wrote within the guide. “‘Hey, you forgot these.’ She provides an additional guide, the scale of a brick, to my stack. ‘Begin with this one,’ she says, smiling. ‘I believe it’s going to open your eyes to some superb issues.’”
When Stamos opened the guide, he learn a passage about management and “controlling your reactionary thoughts, controlling vitality, controlling house and controlling time.”
Whereas the guide intrigued Stamos to cease by the Church’s venue, he quickly discovered the situation to be “creepy as f–okay.”
“[One man] begins to query me about committing crimes, asks if I’ve unfavourable ideas about Scientology or [founder] L. Ron Hubbard and probes into some unusual intercourse inquiries,” Stamos wrote. “The Wayback Machine needle jumps within the nook, and Mia appears to be like upset. Apparently, I’m not Scientology materials. Darn it.”
The church, in the meantime, has not publicly addressed Stamos’ claims.