We've watched RuPaul's right hand woman Michelle Visage on our TV screens since the 90's, but did you know that once upon a time she was a member of the Church of Scientology?
The TV personality sat down with comics and Fire Island co-stars Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang on their Las Culturistas podcast, and revealed that she got into the cultish religion via her bestie Leah Remini, and when she knew it was time to sashay away.
“They start out and they get you in good with some really important courses that can help your way of life,” Visage explained, who at the time was welcoming any support as a single parent raising her children.
“So, I go in to take these courses, and then I did the $50 ones and then the $100 ones. Mind you, I was working on the radio, so I didn’t have a lot of salary,” she continued.
“It came to, like, the $1,800 [course]. I said I didn’t have the money to do it, and they said, ‘Well, you can borrow a friend’s credit card,’ and I was like, ‘What kind of friends you think I got?'”
After Michelle was told that actress Jenna Elfman had borrowed a friend's credit card to fir the bill, Leah's mother volunteered to foot the bill.
“It was time to make a commitment or get out,” Visage said. “I was like, something doesn’t feel right.”
When she decided to study the “tone scale” which “tells you where people are rated in life” Visage was shocked by her discovery.
“Murderers and pedophiles are down at 100 and a deity, a god, is at zero. I started going through the scale, and literally at 90-something was pedophiles, murderers and homosexuals. So I took the book, and I shut it.”
Visage then read a teacher who called out her behavior in the most iconic way. “I said, ‘I quit,’ and I walked out. Girl, bye.”
Visage also praised her friend Leah for finding the courage to leave the church in 2013, and since then the actress has been on a mission to expose the church and their shady practices.
In the meantime you can watch Michelle as a judge on season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, which premiered on September 28 via BBC Three and WOW Presents Plus.
You can listen to the episode here, where she also talks about how Leah and Jennifer Lopez are no longer friends, and a whole lot more.
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