{"id":886130,"date":"2026-10-18T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886130\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:04:10","slug":"jenny-mccarthy-says-tom-cruise-tried-to-lure-her-and-ex-jim-carrey-into-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886130\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny McCarthy says Tom Cruise tried to ‘lure’ her and ex Jim Carrey into Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenny McCarthy claims Tom Cruise tried to \u201clure\u201d her and her ex-boyfriend, Jim Carrey<\/a>, into Scientology at his 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes.<\/p>\n

While speaking with former Scientologist Anne Gollert Hill on Thursday\u2019s episode of her eponymous podcast<\/a>, McCarthy revealed that Cruise \u201ctried to bring [her] into Scientology\u201d while she was dating Carrey.<\/p>\n

The \u201cMasked Singer\u201d judge, 53, went on to explain that Cruise, now 64, tried to recruit her and Carrey into Scientology at the rehearsal dinner, where the former couple sat directly across from the bride and groom.<\/p>\n

Jenny McCarthy (pictured above on her eponymous podcast) claimed Tom Cruise tried to \u201clure\u201d her and her ex-boyfriend, Jim Carrey, into Scientology at Cruise\u2019s 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes. The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show<\/p>\n

McCarthy explained that Cruise tried to recruit her and Carrey (seen above together in 2007) into Scientology at the rehearsal dinner, where the former couple sat directly across from the bride and groom. WireImage<\/p>\n

At the time, Cruise and Holmes had recently welcomed their daughter, Suri<\/a>, now 20.<\/p>\n

McCarthy recalled that during the dinner, a nanny brought the baby over to Holmes, prompting the self-described \u201cbaby person\u201d to ask if she could hold her.<\/p>\n

She said the entire party turned to stare at her, adding, \u201cIt looked like \u2018Rosemary\u2019s Baby\u2019 \u2026 I got the Scientology stare.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy recalled that during the dinner, a nanny brought Cruise and Holmes\u2019 newborn daughter, Suri, over to the table, prompting McCarthy to ask if she could hold her. (Cruise and Holmes are pictured above at their wedding.) Getty Images<\/p>\n

McCarthy said the entire party turned to stare at her, adding, \u201cIt looked like \u2018Rosemary\u2019s Baby\u2019 \u2026 I got the Scientology stare.\u201d (Cruise is seen above with his daughter, Suri, in 2009.) WireImage<\/p>\n

After Holmes \u201cslowly\u201d passed Suri to her, McCarthy monotonously said, \u201cHi, baby,\u201d before handing the infant back to her mom as \u201ceveryone went back to their conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought to myself, \u2018OK, I am in the belly of the beast right now,’\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

McCarthy also recalled Cruise introducing her to his best man, David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology.<\/p>\n

After Holmes \u201cslowly\u201d passed Suri to her, McCarthy (pictured above with Carrey in Los Angeles) monotonously said, \u201cHi, baby,\u201d before handing the infant back to her mom as \u201ceveryone went back to their conversations.\u201d FilmMagic<\/p>\n

McCarthy also recalled Cruise introducing her to his best man, David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology. (The Church of Scientology of Los Angeles is seen above.) Getty Images<\/p>\n

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\u201cI go, \u2018Ha ha, you got picked. Congratulations,\u2019 which made it sound demeaning,\u201d she said, adding that Miscavige \u201cdid not like that\u201d as Cruise laughed to \u201ccover the uncomfortable moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy also said Cruise once invited her and Carrey to his home in Aspen, but Carrey was reluctant to go because he feared they would \u201ctry to lure [them] in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the podcast, McCarthy said Holmes \u201clooked like a deer in headlights\u201d during her marriage to Cruise<\/a>, adding that she would often pull the \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d actress aside at events to check if she was OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was well into the marriage. During the wedding part, she still seemed like Katie, but into the marriage, it seemed there was a shift in her,\u201d McCarthy explained.<\/p>\n

McCarthy also said Cruise (pictured above at a press conference for \u201cDigger\u201d this year) once invited her and Carrey to his home in Aspen, but Carrey was reluctant to go because he feared they would \u201ctry to lure [them] in.\u201d ImaZins via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the podcast, McCarthy said Holmes \u201clooked like a deer in headlights\u201d during her marriage to Cruise, adding that she would often pull Holmes aside at events to check if she was OK. (Cruise and Holmes are seen above in 2005.) Getty Images<\/p>\n

She later added, \u201cThe juxtaposition between Katie at this time and Tom\u2019s world were very polar opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy and Carrey began dating in 2005 but called it quits in 2010, though they have remained close over the years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former \u201cView\u201d co-host went on to marry Donnie Wahlberg<\/a> in 2014, while Carrey recently married his longtime girlfriend, Min Ah<\/a>, earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Cruise and Holmes, for their part, divorced in 2012<\/a>, and Holmes has recently been linked to artist Jason Bard Yarmosky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenny McCarthy claims Tom Cruise tried to \u201clure\u201d her and her ex-boyfriend, Jim Carrey, into Scientology at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3598,91,88,190349,119831,26495,2294,36076,4520],"class_list":["post-886130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity-exes","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-jenny-mccarthy","tag-jim-carrey","tag-katie-holmes","tag-podcasts","tag-scientology","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}