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You have to understand who Paul is, and the kind of person that he is.
Even as a little boy, Paul was not a truthful person. He’s said himself that he was a bad kid. And he wasn’t kidding—he was a bad kid. But unfortunately he grew up to be a worse man, instead of growing out of that.
It’s very embarrassing and hurtful to have to admit that your brother is a con artist, but Paul has always been a con artist, and even my parents knew that. He talks about as a kid having stolen, you know, having forged checks or whatever it was he did. This is not a person who has a fair sense of exchange. Paul has gotten by his whole life on stealing from others in one form or another—whether it was taking credit for things that he didn’t do, assuming credit for them, or assuming full credit for things that he did not fully write but that others had a great deal to do with.
So this idea that Paul is a humanitarian is such a—it’s just a charade. It’s a charade. I’ll tell you a story that was told to me by a writer friend, a mutual writer friend, who knew Paul back in the early days when he first came to LA. And he told me that Paul had told him that—he came back one day to their little place where he was staying and said to his friends, “I figured out how to make it in Hollywood. You get involved in some—you find a humanitarian activity that other industry people are involved in. You get involved in that, you make yourself known, you make yourself useful, you help out in humanitarian efforts and then they will help you with your career. And that’s how you make it in Hollywood.”
Paul used this, he used our Church, he has used our humanitarian efforts in order to glorify himself, in order to build his career. Understand that when Paul came to Hollywood, he had nothing.
Paul got his first jobs through Scientologists. Paul came and hung out at our Celebrity Centre where there were writers who were already working. A very dear friend of mine gave Paul his first job.
I was there, I heard the conversations at the time of Paul, you know, very cleverly wheedling his way into a job so that he could get onto a prime time show. And then once Paul got onto that prime time show, he managed to find a clever way to dump that writer and move onto another television series and get a solo credit.
That’s how Paul got his first solo credits. He got them off of the backs of writers and other celebrities at Celebrity Centre.
This man would sell his children’s souls, and did, for his own ambition and for his career. He sacrificed our family relationships. He did everything he possibly could to turn our family against myself and my husband. He worked—you see, these are the people who divide families. People like Paul Haggis. People who have done things that they don’t want to have found out, as Paul has done.
