More Details on Tom Cruise’s Bizarre “Wife Auditions” in New Book about Scientology

Happier times for Tom and Katie at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last year.This Thursday, Lawrence's Wright's controversial book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief will hit shelves. As to be expected, it includes a great deal of information that will likely have the bigwigs behind the Church of Scientology not so happy, including more details on the totally bizarre "wife-auditions" for the church's most public supporter, Tom Cruise.

In Going Clear Wright claims that actresses Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Kate Bosworth, Lindsay Lohan, and Katie Holmes were brought in for auditions to star alongside Cruise in Mission Impossible III, but in actuality, they were being interviewed to become the next Mrs. Cruise. Hold on, our heads just exploded. Can you even fathom for one second a Lohan/Cruise union? Oh to be a fly on the wall during that meeting!

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After his breakup with Penelope Cruz in 2004, and a short fling with Sofia Vergara, "Cruise heatedly complained to his sister that no one had been able to find him a new girlfriend," the book says. It goes on to claim that the actor made the same complaint to the head of Scientology, David Miscavige, who then instructed church members to recommend to him the best-looking female Scientologists for Cruise.

Nazanian Boniadi One of the church's picks was 25-year-old actress and scientologist Nazanian Boniadi. According to Wright, she was shown evidence that her boyfriend was cheating on her by Scientology officials so that she would fly to New York to have a date with Cruise. After the date, which included a visit to the Empire State Building, dinner at Nobu, skating at Rockefeller Center and a hotel room at Trump Tower, Boniadi was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

Church executive Tommy Davis then apparently warned Boniadi that her job was to keep Cruise happy at all costs. "Davis warned her that if she did anything to upset Cruise, he would personally destroy her," Wright reports. "Davis and Scientology official Jessica Feshback were constantly tutoring her in how to behave toward the star."

When the relationship didn't work out, Wright claims that Scientology officials punished Boniadi by making her clean public toilets with a toothbrush. The church has denied everything, from the auditions to the actions concerning Boniadi.

Of course, Katie Holmes was the one who became Mrs. Cruise in 2006 after a whirlwind yearlong courtship that included Cruise's strangely manic couch jumping on Oprah, a marriage proposal at the Eiffel Tower, and Suri's "silent birth."

But in June of last year, Holmes left Cruise blindsided when she filed for divorce while he was out of the country, just weeks before his 50th birthday. She had apparently been planning the divorce for some time, raising questions about whether or not Holmes feared for the well-being of her daughter Suri.

Wright was inspired to write an entire book about Scientology after penning a profile of Paul Haggis, a Hollywood screenwriter and former Scientologist, for The New Yorker. During the process, Scientology representative Tommy Davis brought Lawrence 47 binders filled with information about the church.

"I suppose the idea was to drown me in information," Wright told The New York Times, "but it was like trying to pour water on a fish. I looked on those binders with a feeling of absolute joy."