Yesterday we brought you the story about how Tom Cruise was having potential girlfriend candidates screened by The Church of Scientology. Yes, that's not very cool and totally something Maverick from 'Top Gun' wouldn't do!

Well, a former Scientologist and acclaimed Oscar winning director Paul Haggis is friends with an actress who was allegedly auditioned, Nazanin Boniadi and supports the claim that these weird auditions were, in fact held. Haggis wrote an email to showbiz411.com and stated the following:

"Naz was embarrassed by her unwitting involvement in this incident and never wanted it to come out, so I kept silent," Haggis wrote in the email published on the website Sunday. "I was deeply disturbed by how the highest ranking members of a church could so easily justify using one of their members; how they so callously punished her and then so effectively silenced her when it was done."