Inside Tom Cruise’s marriage to first wife Mimi Rogers – and how it changed him forever
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Tom Cruise’s love life has been the subject of intense public interest for decades, ever since he met and married Australian actress Nicole Kidman in 1990.
The A-lister has had flings with everyone from Cher, to Bruce Springsteen’s future wife Patti Scialfa, to his Risky Business co-star Rebecca De Mornay. Yet it was his first wife, , who truly changed his life and set him on the path towards Scientology that he has stuck with to this day.
Mimi was an up-and-coming actress waiting for her big break when she first met Tom at a dinner party. “I thought she was extremely bright,” the Top Gun star told Rolling Stone.
She had moved to LA in 1980 after divorcing her first husband, Jim Rogers, and landed small parts in shows like Magnum P.I. Tom quickly fell in love with the brunette, who was six years older than him, and they wed in a small ceremony in 1987.
Mimi is credited with introducing Tom to the Church of Scientology, after growing up in the religious movement. Her father, Philip C. Spickler, was a prominent member of the church and close with its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
“This is the philosophy I grew up with. My parents were Scientologists,” she told Playboy in 1993. “It was a religious philosophy that I was shaped and formed by, part of my education. So, in that sense, it will always be there.”
The actress is no longer a member, but Tom has gone on to become one of the most well-known Scientologists in the world.
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