Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, posing together in 1999, are the center of a new report that says Scientology conspired to alienate Kidman from her adoptive children with Cruise. (Associated Press / ) 
 
 The storm rages over Scientology and Tom Cruise, as a Vanity Fair article makes further allegations that the religion and its star frontman alienated Cruise's kids from their adoptive mother, Nicole Kidman. 
 
 A much-discussed October cover story from the magazine claims that in the wake of Cruise and Kidman's 2001 split, the church held auditions seeking a replacement bride for the "Top Gun" actor, and further more marked his ex Kidman as a detractor. 
 
 A "suppressive person," as the organization calls it, is an "antisocial" personality with a goal to block the mission of Scientology. Kidman wanted nothing to do with the faith after the demise of her marriage, the report alleges via Us Weekly, and the couple's kids Isabella and Connor were flagged to her dissent. 
 
 "They rejected Nicole -- they've been instructed," former Scientologist, and bodyguard to church leader David Miscavige, John Brousseau reportedly told VF. 
 
 Both Isabella, 19, and 17-year-old Connor are said to have accompanied Cruise in church sessions designed to identify so-called suppressive people. Brousseau said the kids regarded Kidman as such, saying "we hate going and seeing her." 
 
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 This is getting so ugly we're tempted to make an "Eyes Wide Shut" pun. Reps for Kidman and Cruise did not respond for comment at press time. Likewise, the the media office at the Church of Scientology did not return requests though they previously dismissed the entire story as "hogwash." 
 
 Though it's unclear if the children "hate" spending time with Kidman, a 2010 interview with the Associated Press sheds light on the contact they've maintained throughout the years. 
 
 Reflecting on the life she shares with husband Keith Urban and their family, Kidman was candid as to where her adopted kids stood in that picture. 
 
 "They live with Tom, which was their choice. I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?" Kidman said. 
 
 Cruise remains an active part of their upbringing, recently accompanying Connor, who works as a DJ, on a club gig in London as interest swirled around Tom's divorce from Katie Holmes. 
 
 A lawyer for Cruise said the Vanity Fair story is "long, boring and false," adding the star likely won't sue the publication. Yet, in the Ministry's humble opinion, the story likely won't disappear. 
 
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 Divorce is a tricky minefield for all kids -- including Isabella and Connor Cruise, who were just 8 and 6 years old, respectively, when their world-famous parents Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorced in 2001 after 11 years together. 
 
 Maureen Orth's investigative cover story in the new Vanity Fair alleges, among other things, that members of Cruise's Church of Scientology turned the young kids against their mom, now 45, following the split. 
 
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 "The central problem [in the marriage] was Nicole did not want to deal with Scientology," former high-ranking Scientologist Marty Rathbun claims to the magazine. After Kidman left the marriage and the Church, she was labeled a Suppressive Person -- a spiritually toxic person to be avoided -- with members of the Church quietly instilling this idea into the kids, sources claimed to Vanity Fair. 
 
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 "They rejected Nicole -- they've been instructed," says John Brousseau, who was a Scientologist for 32 years and formerly the bodyguard and brother-in-law to church leader David Miscavige. 
 
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 Bella and Connor were home schooled, and allegedly accompanied their movie star father, now 50, on auditing sessions, and were taught how to recognize an "S.P.," Rathbun and Brousseau both tell VF. 
 
 "They took a course, P.T.S./S.P., Potential Trouble Source/Suppressive Person, for persons connected in their lives who are an S.P.," Brousseau claims. "[Bella and Connor] whispered to me, 'J.B., Nicole is an S.P.! Our mom's an S.P. -- we hate going and seeing her.'" 
 
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 Sources also claim in Orth's story that Kidman was so ostracized within the Scientology community that Church members were even urged to avoid her films. 
 
 "The Scientology world hated Nicole," Brousseau, who left the Church in 2010, says. "People in Sea Org were mandated to see every freaking Tom Cruise movie that came out. But if you ever mentioned an inkling to see a movie with Nicole, oh my God, you'd hear about it." 
 
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 The Church of Scientology denied to Vanity Fair that Kidman was considered a Suppressive Person, or that Bella and Connor took a course on how to identify Suppressive persons. 
 
 In a later statement, the Church of Scientology roundly dismissed Orth's story, which centers around actress and former church member Nazanin Boniadi, who was allegedly audited to date Cruise and then punished by the organization for her behavior during and after the relationship. "The entire story is hogwash," the Church said. 
 
 Cruise and third wife Katie Holmes finalized their divorce last month. 

 In the October issue, Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth reports that in 2004 Scientology embarked on a top-secret project headed by Shelly Miscavige, wife of Scientology chief David Miscavige, which involved finding a girlfriend for Tom Cruise. According to several sources, the organization devised an elaborate auditioning process in which actresses who were already Scientology members were called in, told they were auditioning for a new training film, and then asked a series of curious questions including: “What do you think of Tom Cruise?” Marc Headley, a Scientologist from age seven, who says he watched a number of the audition videotapes when he was head of Scientology’s in-house studio, tells Orth, “It’s not like you only have to please your husband—you have to toe the line for Scientology.” Both Nicole Kidman and Penélope Cruz ran afoul of Scientology and David Miscavige, according to another former Scientologist. “You can’t do anything to displease Scientology, because Tom Cruise will freak out,” Headley says. (Scientology representatives deny that any such search took place and have dismissed several of the story’s sources as disgruntled apostates. David Miscavige and Tom Cruise declined to be interviewed.) 
 
 According to Orth, Nazanin Boniadi, an Iranian-born, London-raised actress and Scientologist, was selected and dated Cruise from November 2004 until January 2005. Initially she was told only that she had been selected for a very important mission. In a month-long preparation in October 2004, she was audited every day, a process in which she told a high-ranking Scientology official her innermost secrets and every detail of her sex life. Boniadi allegedly was told to lose her braces, her red highlights, and her boyfriend. According to a knowledgeable source, she was shown confidential auditing files of her boyfriend to expedite a breakup. (Scientology denies any misuse of confidential material.) The source says Boniadi signed a confidentiality agreement and was told that if she “messed up” in any way she would be declared a Suppressive Person (a pariah and enemy of Scientology). 
 
 Orth reports that in November 2004 Boniadi was flown to New York, where she met Cruise. That’s when she first sensed that this was possibly going to be an arranged marriage. For their first date Cruise and Boniadi went to dinner at Nobu with an entourage of Scientology aides, then to the skating rink at Rockefeller Center, which was closed to the public especially for them. The two spent that first night together but, according to several sources, they did not have sex. At the Trump Tower, where Cruise and the entourage had rented an entire floor, Cruise purportedly told Boniadi, “I’ve never felt this way before.” She was given a second confidentiality agreement specifically about Cruise to sign. Boniadi could tell her worried parents (her mother was also formerly a Scientologist) only that she was in New York on a special Scientology project. 
 
 Though the first month of the relationship was bliss, by the second month Boniadi was more and more often found wanting, Orth reports. According to the knowledgeable source, anything she said or did that Cruise found fault with he immediately reported to a member of the Scientology staff, and she would be audited for it. This began with her very first words to him, “Very well done,” regarding his receiving Scientology’s Freedom Medal of Valor. The phrase implied that Cruise was her junior. According to the knowledgeable source, Boniadi also offended Scientology chief David Miscavige, who speaks rapidly, because she kept saying, “Excuse me?” when she was entertaining him and his wife during a visit to Telluride. In Scientology, the ability to have your communication “land” is crucial. Boniadi was excoriated by Cruise for disrespecting Miscavige. (A representative for Miscavige told Vanity Fair, “Mr. Miscavige doesn’t remember any girlfriend of anyone, in his entire life, insulting him.”) 
 
 According to Orth, Boniadi was in love with Cruise, but the intensity of his affection, especially his predilection for public displays, overwhelmed her. “I get more love from an extra than I get from you,” the actor reportedly complained. Every day Boniadi spent two to three hours purging herself of “negative thoughts about Tom.” She felt completely shut off; her only source of money was a credit card issued in the name of Cruise’s production company. 
 
 Following the alleged episode with Miscavige, Cruise barely acknowledged Boniadi, though she had moved into his house and they shared a bedroom. By the third week in January, she was asked to move into Scientology’s Celebrity Centre. Boniadi was told that Cruise “wants someone with her own power—like Nicole.” When she asked why Cruise would not break up with her himself, she was told he was not to be disturbed. A Scientology official allegedly told her, by way of explanation, “Naz, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” 
 
 When a friend at a Scientology center in Florida, where Boniadi was subsequently sent, asked why she was crying all the time, Boniadi broke down and told her about her relationship with Cruise, which she had been forbidden to do. According to the knowledgeable source, the friend reported her. Boniadi’s punishment was to scrub toilets with a toothbrush, clean bathroom tiles with acid, and dig ditches in the middle of the night. After that she was sent out to sell Scentology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics on street corners. Boniadi and her mother are no longer involved in Scientology. 
 
 (A Scientology spokesperson responds: “The Church does not punish people, especially in [that] manner.”) 
 
 Orth also reveals: 

 'I wish they lived with me': Nicole Kidman's heartbreak over her adopted children's decision to live with ex Tom Cruise 
 
 
 
 Nicole Kidman has expressed her sadness that the children she adopted with then husband Tom Cruise have chosen to live with him - and wishes they were with her instead. 
 
 
 
 The 43-year-old actress raised Isabella, 18, and Connor, 15, with Mission: Impossible star Tom from babies - but they decided to live with Cruise after their divorce with his third wife Katie Holmes and their four-year-old daughter Suri. 
 
 
 
 However, Nicole insisted she wouldn't fight their decision, saying: 'They live with Tom, which was their choice. I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?' 
 
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 The children have been living with Cruise since he ended his 10 year marriage with Kidman in 2001. 
 
 
 
 In an interview three years ago, Cruise's current wife Holmes admitted Connor and Isabella called her 'Mom' after just two years in their lives. 
 
 She said: 'His first two children are incredible, really smart and kind. They call me Mom.' 
 
 Talking to this week's UK edition of Hello! magazine, Kidman said although she was upset at them spending most of their time with their father in Los Angeles, having a younger child helped lessen the pain. 
 
 She admitted: 'It's a beautiful thing at 43 to have a two and half year old!' 
 
 Living apart: Kidman with ex-husband Tom Cruise and their two children Connor and Isabella in 1996 
 
 Growing up fast: Isabella and Connor in New York in September 
 
 However, despite the distance between them, Nicole said she was proud of her elder children, telling Associated Press: 'They are healthy and sane and together and are great, great people. So I'm not one of those people that needs to be reminded of what I have.' 
 
 Nicole also revealed that her beautiful toddler Sunday Rose was named after the day of week that she and musician husband Keith Urban most enjoyed spending together. 
 
 
 
 She explained: 'When we were both alone, before we met each other, Sunday was the day we dreaded most, because when you don't have someone in your life Sundays can be really lonely. 
 
 
 
 'Then when we met, we went from dreading Sunday to really loving it. It was the day when nobody was going to bother you, you could stay in bed, you could do what you wanted to do. We just thought, What a great name for our baby!' 
 
 
 
 A mother's love: The Hollywood beauty was trying to lift the spirits of sick children set to be stuck on wards over Christmas - despite her heartache that her two eldest children no longer live with her 
 
 Demure: The Moulin Rouge star was dressed casually in cream for her hospital visit 
 
 Nicole was also showing her motherly side on Monday when she paid a surprise visit to Sydney Children's Hospital. 
 
 
 
 The Moulin Rouge star dropped by to spend time with 30 poorly young people who will be stuck on wards over Christmas. 
 
 
 
 Nicole is over in Australia with husband Keith and their daughter to spend the festive season with her family. 
 
 
 
 The pair were out earlier today to take little Sunday Rose to watch a performance of Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play at the Sydney Opera House.
– More details are leaking from Vanity Fair's massive Scientology story, and the latest paint a disturbing picture of how the church allegedly estranged Nicole Kidman from the two children she adopted with Tom Cruise. Isabella, now 18, was 8 when Kidman and Cruise divorced; Connor was 6. Kidman "did not want to deal with Scientology," a former Scientologist says, and thus she was labeled a "Suppressive Person," or someone who must be avoided, Us reports. Then her own kids were trained to recognize "SPs" when they went along with Cruise on auditing sessions. "They rejected Nicole—they've been instructed," says another former Scientologist, who adds that at one point they told him, "Nicole is an SP! Our mom's an SP—we hate going and seeing her." The church, of course, denies all of the above. But the Los Angeles Times points out that in a 2010 interview, Kidman said of her children, "They live with Tom, which was their choice. I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?" Click to see what the article had to say about Cruise's "wife auditions."