The new issue of Woman’s Day features a conservative-looking Nicole Kidman on the cover with the headline “I Lost My Kids To Scientology.” Inside the issue, the introductory teaser on the Woman’s Day website says that she talks about how upset she is to not see her children while they are indoctrinated into the cult. It doesn’t seem like she dishes much dirt on Scientology other than saying that her kids would rather spend time with their Scientology teachers in the states rather than visit her.

When I first read this story, I thought they had a new interview with her, but all they’re doing is rehashing her Vanity Fair interview and spinning to to make it seem like she’s dissing Scientology. They take a quote out of context from the VF interview and magnify it, making it the focus of the story.

They also claim she’s “threatening to reveal the darkest secrets of her marriage to ex-husband Tom Cruise,” but they seem to be referring to a cryptic comment she made in her Vanity Fair interview, in which she talked candidly about a miscarriage early in her relationship with Cruise and said that she might tell the whole story one day:

“From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that’s when it came that we would adopt Bella. There’s a complicated background to that, given that I never speak much about many things. One day maybe that story will be told.’

[From Vanity Fair, October, 2007 via I’m Not Obsessed]

In her Vanity Fair interview it seems the only thing she really criticizes Scientology for is the way it involves her kids so much that they don’t want to see her. She even says she’s doesn’t want to talk about it much. Women’s Day is making it out to be more than it is, and is misleading people into thinking that they have unique new quotes from Kidman that speak out against the cult when that’s not true at all:

Nicole Kidman has finally spoken of her anguish over her estrangement from her two Scientology-raised children and her feelings of failure as a mother. She is also threatening to reveal the darkest secrets of her marriage to ex-husband Tom Cruise.

With her adopted kids Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12, preferring to stay in the US with their Scientology minders rather than visit their own mother in Australia, Nicole has alluded to her antipathy towards the controversial religion.

“I don’t want to be the one discussing Scientology,” a wounded Nicole warily told US magazine Vanity Fair when asked about her children’s indoctrination during her latest interview. “My kids want to live in LA and they’re at a certain age where they dig in their heels.”

While Isabella and Connor briefly visited their mum in Australia earlier this year, they have chosen to spend their holidays at a Church of Scientology camp in Oregon.

A former Scientologist says the camp in Portland, where the kids are holed up, is really an intense learning program for Scientology teachings. “The summer camp is part of Scientology’s get-them-while-they’re-young campaign,” says the ex-member…

[Womansday.ninemsn.com via Gossip Rocks]

The quote about the Scientology camp is lifted straight from an article in Star Magazine from September 3, in which it was revealed that Nicole’s children were away at brainwash camp.

I wonder if Kidman has grounds to sue the pants out of Women’s Day for taking her quotes out of context and making it seem like she’s finally talking about Scientology’s negative effect on her family. Her quotes were pretty mild and non-committal.

Nicole Kidman has never really talked much about Scientology except to say that she considers herself Catholic. In 1999, before her split with Tom Cruise, she described herself as “a mishmash of religions… a little Buddhism, a little Scientology.” She left no doubt that her allegiance was not to Scientology, saying “I was raised Catholic and a big part of me is still a Catholic girl.” [Quote found at Catholic.org]

A conflict over Kidman’s commitment to the Scientology cult is said to have hastened the end of her marriage to Cruise.

Scientology is known for threatening, harassing, suing and blackmailing ex-members from speaking out against the cult. A recent suspicious double suicide of a well to do artist couple in NY was said to be influenced in no small part by their well-founded paranoia of Scientology. They spoke at length of the harassment and hounding they claimed to endure from cult members for years.

Kidman has a healthy fear of speaking out out against the cult and she’s got to be scared now that Woman’s Day is twisting her words like this just to sell copies.