We have a wonderful and ever-growing family and every one of us is doing great. His bitter, angry ex-wife, daughter and brother all conspired to hunt him down, physically and verbally assault him while attempting to keep him from removing himself from the scene. She had surgery and she’ll never have proper function of it and… So she’s sitting there screaming and—this is his wife. I go on the Internet at least once a day, I am up to date on the news—so are my friends and co-workers. Left both of us in the lurch with no communication. I mean they thought I might die. Justice, compassion, benevolence, kindness, tolerance, belief, respect, friendliness, self-control, honesty, loyalty, love and integrity—these are the words that describe any Scientologist and our actions. It just didn’t happen. He wouldn’t even have a conversation and go, “Wow, my kid’s here, my wife’s here, my brother’s here, they all came to see me, why don’t I stop a minute and hear what they have to say.” No, he wouldn’t listen to us, he then grabbed my mom’s arm and I guess there was a key or something he had in his hand, his car key and he’s grabbing her arm so bad, she’s going, “Ow, ow, ow, ow! My comment on him being a consultant for Leah Remini on the subject matter of disconnection specifically is actually a little bit laughable. An Open Letter from Mike Rinder’s Daughter Taryn to Nancy Dubuc, CEO of A&E How dare you air lies from your “producer” Mike Rinder—my father—to cover up the lifetime of mental anguish and abuse he inflicted on my brother and me. Their daughter, Ashley, was born in 1984, son, Nick in 1987. Church of Scientology letter to ABC News Senior Vice President, Church’s social betterment and humanitarian programs, Church of Scientology response to ABC News on Church growth, Church of Scientology response to ABC News-20/20 Inquiry #1, Church of Scientology letter on Remini clips, Church of Scientology response on questions pertaining to Mike Rinder, Church of Scientology response to ABC News-20/20 Inquiry #2, Church of Scientology response to ABC News-20/20 Inquiry #3, Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International, Association for Better Living and Education, Church of Scientology statement re Leah Remini, Building for the Future of the Scientology Religion. He is just bitter because he deserted us and never cared about his family or made the time for any of us. They got married in 1976, and together they had two kids, a son Benjamin and a daughter Taryn. My grandmother had quite a few times spoken up and or written to him saying, “Please stop, stop attacking my family, my church.” Like, she is a founding Scientologist, her and my grandfather were. When Rinder left, Taryn says, he never said goodbye, leaving them in the lurch with “not one single piece of communication, not an … So for Mike to now tell or to say on the show or to insinuate in any way that 1) he knows anything about me, or 2) that I or my brother or my mom disconnected from him is just a total farce. Because as a consultant, you would think it would be someone that does whatever that thing is, that is a good example of whatever you’re trying to show. —Mike Rinder . A strong family is part of living—so Mike Rinder is just contradicting himself. Shortly after that she got very ill, within probably I would say about a year. We were getting calls from the hospital in Australia, like, “Okay, she’s going to die any day now.” And the last thing she asked is, “I wish Mike—I was on the phone with her—and she says, I wish Mike would come to his senses. About the lie forwarded regarding Scientology taking precedence over anything else in your life: Well this is a manifestation of the blatant refusal by him and any others who listen to him to actually look at Scientology and what we believe in. That’s because Mike Rinder is the true father from hell, the ultimate disconnector who by his own choice blew up his own family. Mike Rinder chose to abandon a son, a daughter, a wife of three decades, a brother and even his mother in the years before she died. To do that, she brought out Mike Rinder, the former international spokesperson for the church. When Rinder left, Taryn says, he never said goodbye, leaving them in the lurch with “not one single piece of communication, not an email, not a phone call, not a note, not a goodbye.” Taryn was with her mother Cathy when they tried to reconcile things with Rinder and he attacked Cathy. And refused to talk to us and just, I don’t know, I went away from it and I went, “Wow, there’s something really wrong with him.”. In July, Remini and another former Scientologist, Mike Rinder, launched a podcast, Scientology: Fair Game, as a way to continue the conversation about the group Credit: Splash News “Leah Remini has blood on her hands. I went there with my mom and my uncle thinking, “Okay good, let’s go see him and give him the benefit of the doubt and see if we can reconcile this, once and for all. Letter from Taryn Teutsch, daughter of Mike Rinder, to ABC Mike’s hypocrisy is laughable because he claims to care so much about education, children and welfare and he couldn't have been a worse father. He was—you could tell his only interest in the conversation was getting something the media could use because he was like, “I’m getting the BBC on the phone” or whatever. She was ashamed over how her son turned out—an incessant liar who deserted his own children and family and continues to try to harm people of good will. I live life to the fullest and that depends on family. Meanwhile, Mike Rinder couldn’t care less. Find out the truth. So he has to place the blame elsewhere. ... follows Leah as she investigates the Church of Scientology alongside co-host Mike Rinder. And if you ask me right now, I can’t—I don’t remember my dad ever being there, ever, ever, ever. Here he is, standing behind Leah Remini—as if she or he knows anything … What does she know? Not once. And he’s hurting her like, badly hurting her. Mike has no respect for his family, no consideration for our welfare or our requests for him to get on with his life and leave us and our religion alone. From her enlightening docu-series and eye-opening memoir to her new podcast with Mike Rinder (pictured above), it's clear Remini is determined to share the truth about the group. WireImage. And we’re going to go in December. I am the daughter of a domestic violence survivor. Not an email, not a phone call, not a note, not a goodbye. Mike Rinder and my mom. July 27, 2020 By Mike Rinder 92 Comments. I was born into Scientology and have remained a dedicated Scientologist. Go have your life, be with Jack and your wife, that’s totally fine. The most notorious recent effort of Scientology to use unwitting celebrities as pawns occurred when Mike Rinder’s daughter Taryn Teutsch cynically sought to exploit the #MeToo movement. Mike Rinder is a family man and has married twice in his life. Mike Rinder and Leah Remini used that quote in their program without once ever talking to Cathy Tweed to get an update on how she’s doing with her own daughter’s suicide 3 years later. Photos, videos, and other materials. November 21, 2020 By Mike Rinder 41 Comments. So he was all frantic about that and crazy. Except to make his next call herein he spins a wild version of the episode to the local tabloid. He separated from his wife in … Don’t let him pull the wool over your eyes. And my brother and Jackie and my cousin in Florida spent the weekend with Andrew and Pat a few weeks before that. December 21, 2020 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments. They've never experienced my life or my family's life and my childhood or what I went through or even now in the present the way that our family operates—which is amazing, the best ever. He didn’t attend her funeral and was nowhere to be found when his son was battling life-threatening cancer. Similarly, after receiving further medical care, Rinder’s wife and daughter return to Los Angeles battered and emotionally bruised. Nothing. You can be sure, at that point, I disowned him forever. Predatory Alienation, Religion and the Law. I am offended by this and insulted by the outright lie that I and many of my friends who grew up with Scientology are anything but intelligent, productive members of society. Documentary evidence supports how Mike Rinder abused his family, his former wife and even his coworkers—men and women. Mike’s sister and her family are coming. When I was 8 years old I got hit by a car. I was laughing at the claim about Sea Org members not being allowed this or that, TV, Internet, news etc. He looks whacked, he looks crazy to me and his eyes looked funny.” I mean, it was just—I hadn’t seen him and then I saw him and I was like, “Wow, oh my god. For so intense and vicious is Rinder’s hatred for anyone associated with Scientology that it ultimately destroyed every meaningful relationship he ever had… beginning with the family he abandoned for the fact they remain Scientologists. And so they’ve put a lot of their own lives and love and their heart into creating this religion and forwarding it. His own family has been speaking out against him. I mean, he was still married to her at this time even though he decided to go with another woman but that’s a whole ‘nother story. I am very aware of the continual vicious lies from Mike Rinder, as many of these concern me, his daughter, and my family. Instead, he was busy sleeping with a woman young enough to be his daughter. As a dad, I wouldn’t really call him a dad. So he comes along and not only deserts his immediate family, meaning me, my brother and my mom, but her, his brother, his sister who are all also Scientologists, and their kids. My brother and I suffered much distress because of his uncaring attitude toward us. So how does that person consult with, or become a consultant for that subject matter? November 14, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments. Can you please—I’m fine on you not being in Scientology, we’re all okay on that. Scientology Deaths and Suicides. My family is now a 4th generation family of Scientologists (bar Mike of course). Photos, videos, and other materials. He lies about his lies, and then lies about those lies. Mike Rinder was once the international spokesperson for the Church of Scientology, but when Remini sat down with him almost a decade after he left the church, he showed her a … Bitch!” Like really bad like, scary, I was like, “Wholly crap, that’s my dad, doing that to my mom.”, Mike’s brother Andrew then tried to talk to him even more and was like, “Look man, just stop and talk to us.” And he was just like, “I’m out of here!” and trying to get in his car and leaving and then he ends up basically like, bending my uncle’s fingers back, completely hurting him. She doesn’t even know us and certainly has no data about me, my brother, my mother and my family. With Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Christie Collbran, L. Ron Hubbard. And we went to New York, and we went to Australia. This could not be further from the truth. To suggest we can’t use the Internet is ludicrous. Said Rinder’s daughter Taryn, now grown: “My whole life I … He violently attacked his then-estranged wife in Clearwater, Florida, when she, their daughter and Rinder’s brother approached him to offer their help. Do you want to see my iTunes account? All Rights Reserved. You realize he let his own mother pass away with a broken heart after he broke into her home, rummaged through her stuff and upset her horribly. Scientology leader David Miscavige has panicked with the approach of Season 3 of Leah Remini's Emmy-winning program Scientology and the Aftermath. I then flourished throughout my years and always had a high IQ. Rinder’s daughter described the … He can go on his own way, I’m totally fine with that like—but just stop attacking me and saying things about me or my family or my family members.” Okay good, we go to see him. He never cared. Then, when we went to see him a few years ago in Florida to speak to him about the situation he created, he viciously attacked my Mom and caused her permanent physical damage to her shoulder requiring surgery. Never. I can access them anytime I want. Just by the fact that a dad is someone that you depend on, that is there with you, that lives your life with you, that goes through your special, you are good, you are bad and all of that and I wouldn’t say that he held that function or did any of those things for me and even more so for my brother. But not only that but he actually—I don’t know exactly, technically what he did but he pulled her arm out, okay. And that's been just part of what Mike Rinder-- once the brains behind Scientology's handling of the media until he himself left the group in 2007 -- calls a dazzling strategy. So not only did he desert us, leave his mom which of course that’s just like—he just left, never said anything to her either. She says that Rinder wouldn’t listen to them and he “grabbed my mom’s arms and he gouged her arm. He deserted everyone in his own family, including his mother. Mike is bitter because he is missing out on this. Mike Rinder & Christie Collbran’s kids – … He treated us like, really like, like we were nothing. So since he removed himself from our family, it’s only gotten better and better. For him to say anything to Leah Remini in her show or otherwise—factually to anybody for that matter, especially people that—I don't know them at all. Even when he was with us he treated everybody like shit. My latest download is the new Adele song and before that it was the Aloha movie. And so he should have been afraid. I feel for this beautiful girl (I assume her sister is similarly blessed). And I was just with Andrew and Pat last weekend. I understand you are doing a show with Mike Rinder and Leah Remini. Dealing with Critics of Scientology – The L. Ron Hubbard Playbook Then he starts attacking the one thing that, you know, the thing she’s put her heart into the most and our religion and our family and he starts attacking that. I’m telling you, you would have a conversation with him, you would walk away and go, “I suck.” It was the way he made you feel, that you were horrible and this is coming from his daughter and his son, I mean my brother—he never liked him, he didn’t like him. For an opener, I am a Scientologist and a Sea Org member. … She had surgery and she’ll never have proper function of it.”. Rinder shows his hatred toward women by publicly trashing Cathy and their daughter, Taryn, who has courageously stood up for her mother. Everyone in the family is just like, ‘Wow, we didn't even realize how much, like what a black sheep he was,” how much he put a little uuhhh on the family communication lines. A Primer on Brainwashing. Leah visits the spiritual headquarters of Scientology--Clearwater, Florida--to hear Mike Rinder's personal story. In fact, I make it my business to know about the world as we aim to help people worldwide every day. And now her daughter Kiki, who is 13, is on her professional auditor training line-up. Remini's cohost, Mike Rinder, released a statement shortly after the murder of the religious worker, saying, "They basically seek to shift the blame to … Link to Instagram Taryn’s Instagram Get the facts about those you are forwarding lies about instead of closing your eyes to the discrimination towards me and many other Scientologists. It doesn’t make sense to me. He left behind every true friend he ever had. And every single one of us has expanded and we're doing great and we see each other more than ever. He is the ONLY family member missing from the last 6 family vacations we have taken from Australia to New York and this last Christmas at Disneyworld. Like, I was positive. 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