MAGA Singer Says Tom Cruise’s Church of Scientology Almost ‘Destroyed’ Her

MAGA favorite Joy Villa is breaking with Tom Cruise’s beloved Church of Scientology — and she’s not holding back about what she says really went on behind the scenes.

In a new tell-all essay, the singer says she’ll “never go back” to the controversial organization after 15 years inside, claiming the Church “slowly destroyed” her while taking nearly two million dollars of her money.

Villa says she didn’t stumble into Scientology as a “lost nobody,” but as a driven, faith-based woman who’d been raised Christian and loved Jesus.

“I entered as a driven, faith-raised woman, searching for truth, healing, and purpose,” she wrote, adding that she was reassured she could keep her Christian faith. “I loved Jesus. And Scientology told me I could keep Him. That lie kept me inside for fifteen years.”

By the time she left, Villa claims she had donated “nearly two million dollars” to the Church — plus her time, labor, voice, platform, and influence.

She says she lived for years at the famous Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, trained “at the highest levels,” and became one of Scientology’s most visible success stories as an actress and singer.

According to Villa, her face was “splattered everywhere” as proof the religion worked. “On the outside, it looked like it did,” she admitted.

Villa acknowledges she did hit major milestones during her Scientology years — including walking the Grammy red carpet multiple times and landing Billboard No. 1 hits. But she claims the Church immediately tried to brand all of it as theirs.

“Every achievement was attributed not to God, not to talent, not to perseverance, but to auditing, donations, and loyalty to the organization,” she said. “My success became propaganda. My life became marketing. What no one saw was the cost.”

She now calls Scientology “not a self-help system” but “a control system,” and says that as you rise through the ranks, the scrutiny “intensifies.”

“Loyalty is everything,” she wrote, alleging that members are subjected to “security checks” — interrogations meant to expose any critical thoughts about the Church or its leader, David Miscavige.

“Let me be clear. Questioning David Miscavige is not allowed,” she claimed.

Villa says at the time she still trusted Miscavige and the structure of the Church — but emotionally, she was falling apart.

She describes reaching her breaking point at Scientology’s global headquarters at Saint Hill Manor in the U.K., where she says she was working 12-hour days and becoming “mentally depleted, spiritually numb, emotionally unraveling.”

“I was deeply depressed. So depressed that I began to scare myself,” she wrote. “I did not want to die, but I no longer wanted to live.”

Villa says she eventually left the U.K., and that putting distance between herself and the Church helped save her life. She claims that during this time “God began to heal” her, and when she prayed about whether she’d ever return to Scientology, she felt a clear answer: “Leave Scientology.”

Walking away wasn’t just a spiritual shift, Villa says — it meant letting go of the identity she’d built inside the Church.

“After leaving, I walked away from everything I thought defined me,” she wrote, revealing she later chose to be rebaptized. “Fully surrendered. No halfway faith. No spiritual substitutes.”

“Leaving cost me years I will never get back,” she continued. “But it gave me something infinitely more valuable.”

Now, she’s urging anyone who feels something is off in their own life to trust that instinct. “If you’re wondering if something feels wrong, listen to that voice,” she said — adding one final promise about Scientology:

“I will never go back.”