according to Church policies: she "had to dig ditches at midnight and scrub floor tiles... She was placed on a curfew... escorted everywhere she went". She also testified that she felt as if "she was a victim of white slavery, because she traveled across state lines under false pretenses". Afterward Boniadi left the Church of Scientology soon afterwards and in October 2014 called herself a "non-practising Muslim". On 10 May 2017, American journalist Tony Ortega reported on FBI testimony that Boniadi had given in January 2010 regarding her relationship with Cruise through the Church of Scientology. Boniadi's testimony describes how the Church's Office of Special Affairs selected her to be Cruise's girlfriend. In 2017, she tweeted congratulations to Leah Remini and Mike Rinder on their series Scientology and the Aftermath winning an Emmy Award. In a later interview with the Los Angeles Times, Boniadi described her role in Counterpart as cathartic and therapeutic, saying "sometimes there are personal traumas that you don't ever talk about publicly but you pour it into your work". She continued: "this idea of shedding indoctrination and finding out who you are for me is a strong one. It has been extremely therapeutic for me to be able to put it out into the world through my art as opposed to openly discussing it." Filmography Film Television References Further reading External links 1980 births Living people 21st-century British actresses Actresses from London British actresses of Asian descent British expatriate actresses in the United States British Muslims British film actresses British human rights activists British television actresses British women activists Former Scientologists Iranian diaspora film people Iranian emigrants to England University of California, Irvine alumni Women human rights activists