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'I WAS BLEEDING': Danny Masterson's ex accuses him of rape on Leah Remini's anti-Scientology show

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After much controversy, Leah Remini has wrapped up her long-running series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.

The final episode, which aired on Monday, exposed even more shocking claims about the organization, including allegations of Danny Masterson.

As Radar readers knows, a David Miscavige, are listed as defendants in the lawsuit.

“In the Scientology world, celebrity is like God-like,” Remini explained before Chrissie Bixler, one of Masterson’s ex-girlfriends and accusers, shared her story for the first time on camera.

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Bixler became a Scientologist in 1996 and left the church after 20 years in 2016. She sat down for an interview with Remini on April 10, 2017. The survivor was pregnant at the time, but later lost the child due to overwhelming stress, she said.

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“It was in the sixth year [of being in Scientology], it happened in December of 2001, Danny and I went to a restaurant. We had dinner and I had a glass of wine, maybe two. The last thing I remember is getting up to leave the restaurant to go home. Complete blackout,” Bixler claimed. “The next day when I woke up, the back of my head hurt. And I thought I had fallen, but I didn’t understand. It almost felt like I was poisoned…I didn’t know where I was, my joints hurt.”

Bixler said she soon realized she was in Masterson’s home, and he was downstairs in his office.

“So I go downstairs, and I was like, ‘What happened? I have no memory,'” Bixler claimed. “He chuckled.”

“I said I’m in a lot of pain, I was bleeding. It was injured. I said ‘What happened?’ And he started laughing. And he said ‘Oh, I had sex with you last night,'” she claimed. “And I said ‘Was I unconscious?'”

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“And he said ‘Yeah,'” Bixler continued.

Seeing as Masterson didn’t seem apologetic about the alleged abuse, Bixler decided to take it up with the Church of Scientology.

“I went to the church and asked to speak with the ethics officer at the Celebrity Centre,” she said. “I told her what happened.”

In Scientology, ethics officers are described as Scientology members who “resolve problems as well as hand out the punishments.”

“The first thing she told me was to stop using the word rape,” Bixler said.

“‘It’s not rape if you are in a consensual relationship. And you’ve been together for how long?” the ethics officer allegedly told her.

“Six years,” Bixler allegedly replied.

“‘Yeah, stop saying rape,'” the ethics officer said, according to Bixler.

“She told me that I must have done something to deserve it. And if I were to tell anyone or went to the police, then I could be declared a Suppressive Person,” Bixler claimed.

In Scientology, when a person is declared a Suppressive Person, or SP, he or she is kicked out and shunned from the organization.

“I remember saying to him, if you go in now and you’re willing to show me that you’re willing to take responsibility for your part in this, I can forgive you,” Bixler said of Masterson.

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“And he said he didn’t think he had to.”

It was then that Bixler decided to leave the church, and move out of the home she shared with Masterson.

“A lot of my friends stopped being my friend and they liked his friendship more. He’s a celebrity. He had more to offer them. I had to start over,” Bixler said.

Masterson’s lawyer sent the show a statement denying all claims.

“The idea that law enforcement agencies in the second largest city in the United States would sit idly by for more than three years if they believe that a serial rapist were on the loose is preposterous,” the statement reads. “The fact that this investigation may or may not remain open is irrelevant. Not once in the three years since these women resurfaced and supposedly filed complaints with the Los Angeles Police Department, has any member of law enforcement contacted Mr. Masterson about the allegations.”

Scientology declined to participate in an interview.

The years passed and Bixler remained silent about the abuse, until she found love with now-husband Cedric Bixler, whom she eventually told about Masterson.

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“When she explained it to me I could just see that she was just so indoctrinated, so tangled in the philosophy… Scientology found a very special way to spin it to her to say it was her fault,” Bixler’s husband explained. “Because she had dated a celebrity, it was far more important to cover his ass.”

In a statement from Aug. 12, 2019, the church claimed Bixler never told them about the alleged abuse. However, a 2004 letter from a parent of another alleged victim “indicated that she and others knew about Chrissie’s allegations.”

On the show, Bixler said that no one in Scientology checked to make sure that she was physically healthy following the alleged rape. She said that instead, they forced her to read ethics books.

In one particular book, it stated that an individual could “get away with murder” so long as his “statistic was up.”

“So that scared me nice and good,” Bixler said.

Bixler claimed that Scientology told her that her job as Masterson’s girlfriend “was to give myself to him whenever he wanted.”

“I cannot say no. I lay there and take it,” she explained.

Before dating Masterson, Bixler had a career as a model. When they met, the actor had not yet booked his famous role on That ’70s Show. But once he did, he told Bixler to quit modeling so she could focus solely on him and his career, she claimed.

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The second of the four victims accusing Masterson of sexual assault, Bobette Riales, said she decided to speak out on the show after hearing Bixler’s abuse story and realizing it was very similar to hers.

“Seeing how it was affecting her, I couldn’t be quiet and stand by and allow someone that I know exactly how she’s feeling,” Riales explained. “Because when she actually shared her story a little bit to me, to the point where it immediately… I’m like, ‘There is no way in hell you would know that. That’s my story. That’s my life. There’s no way.’ And so I spoke.”

Despite the controversy surrounding Scientology and Masterson’s rape accusations, Reales said she and the other victims will continue to fight for honesty.

“We’re not stopping,” she added.

Currently, the investigation into Masterson’s sexual assault accusations remain open with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office.

“We are taught to protect Scientology’s reputation at all cost,” Remini’s right hand man and former Scientologist executive Mike Rinder claimed. “Which means when something bad happens, you have to keep secret. You are raised to believe that anything that happened to you is because you did it in another lifetime to another or something similar, or you’ve done something this life to have received that punishment.”

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On the show, one accuser — Serge Gil, who was in Scientology for 37 years — claimed he was sexually abused as a child by a man.

At 16, Gil was sent to a Scientology reform program (RPF) for not being a productive staff member of the Sea Org, a branch of Scientology where individuals live and work on the organization’s properties.

Gil claimed he was locked up for over two years doing hard manual labour for eight hours a day.

“We were adults and minors mixed in together,” Gil told the cameras. “And we were all paired up even with adults, to be their therapist and we’d be their therapist.”

He said he was abused by his partner.

“You were children, you did nothing wrong. You were not a counsellor, you were a child, you were not a therapist, you were a child who was hurt. You were hurt, you deserve to be heard. You deserve law enforcement to hear your story,” she said.

“It’s been five years for me, but I’m still finding out what we’ve done to these kids,” a teary-eyed Remini continued. “But as a mother, it’s hard to hear.”

Scientology denied that Gil was forced into therapy sessions with an adult.

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Gil has since filed a 2017 police report with his accusations.  The Clearwater Police is looking into the allegations and the case remains pending.

“The church has maintained that it complies with all laws regarding mandatory reporting of sexual assault. Children are never instructed to audit adults,” the church said in a statement, denying Gil’s claims.

Remini ended the final show with words of hope.

“Our fight is not over. And I hope you are just as enraged as I am,” Remini said. “There is so much more that needs to be done. Our fight has to go beyond the restraints of network television. I never knew that our fight would be so big so colossal. I did believe that doing three seasons would be enough. But we see that we have to go further. Rest assured Scientology, this is not the end. It’s just the beginning.”

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