Editing Disconnection (Scientology) (section)

===21st century===
A ''[[Buffalo News]]'' investigation in 2005 spoke to the sisters and brother of Fred Lennox, a Scientologist who, according to them, was being manipulated and exploited financially by the group. The paper also quoted an internal so-called "Ethics Order" instructing him to "handle or disconnect" from his sister Tanya because of anti-Scientology comments she had made online. Lennox himself and Church of Scientology spokesmen denied this.<ref name = "sommer2005"/>

Ex-Scientologist [[Tory Christman]] told ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine that her Scientologist husband and friends refused to talk to her after she left the Church.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/inside-scientology-103288/ |title=Inside Scientology |date=February 8, 2011 |orig-date=February 23, 2006 |first=Janet |last=Reitman |author-link=Janet Reitman |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url-status=<!--archived version is better--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502021124/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/inside-scientology-20110208 |archive-date=May 2, 2018}}</ref>

In January 2008, [[Jenna Miscavige Hill]], niece of [[David Miscavige]], spoke out about the policy's effect on her family. She revealed that, once her parents left the Church while she remained, she had been forbidden to answer the telephone in case she spoke to them and that her parents only restored occasional access to her by threatening legal action.<ref name="yn200801">{{cite news|first = Jonny|last = Jacobsen|title = Niece of Scientology's leader backs Cruise biography | work = [[Agence France-Presse]] | date=28 January 2008 |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5heELOXbk_8qWowwJGtd3RrEXdqgQ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307065203/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5heELOXbk_8qWowwJGtd3RrEXdqgQ |archive-date=March 7, 2008}}</ref> Another second-generation Scientologist, [[Astra Woodcraft]], told [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''Nightline'' that she had been forbidden any contact with her father once he left the Church and she was still a member. She used her weekly laundry time to secretly meet up with him.<ref name=nightline>{{cite episode | title=Scientology Under Attack |series=Nightline | series-link = Nightline (US news program) | airdate=24 April 2008}}</ref>

To make the television documentary ''[[Scientology and Me]]'', the [[Panorama (TV series)|BBC ''Panorama'']] team spoke to two mothers whose daughters had disconnected, one for nearly seven years.<ref name="panorama" /> Mike Henderson, an ex-Scientologist, told ''Panorama'' how he had not spoken to his father during his time as a member. When Henderson left Scientology, he re-established communication with his father, but most of the rest of the family disconnected from Henderson as a result.<ref name="panorama"/>

Actor [[Jason Beghe]] has alleged that after he left the Church of Scientology in 2007, former friends who remained in the Church disconnected from him.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/22/scientology-cruise-haggis-us-australia|title=Celebrities lead charge against Scientology|last=Beaumont |first=Peter |author2=Toni O'Loughlin|author3=Paul Harris|date=22 November 2009 |work=The Observer|publisher=Guardian News & Media|access-date=30 November 2009}}</ref>

In 2009, a man named Shane Clark was about to be declared a [[suppressive person]] for being employed by Marc Headley, author of ''[[Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology]]''. Clark secretly recorded a meeting between himself and Scientology spokesman [[Tommy Davis (Scientology)|Tommy Davis]] and his wife [[Jessica Feshbach]]. In the tape, Davis is heard not only threatening Clark with suppressive person declaration, but telling him he will be the subject of disconnection. Clark was later declared, and his family disconnected from him.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ortega|first=Tony|title=Tommy Davis, Scientology Spokesman, Secretly Recorded Discussing 'Disconnection'|url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/tommy_davis_sci.php|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=18 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707012356/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/tommy_davis_sci.php|archive-date=7 July 2013}}</ref> Despite the direct evidence to the contrary, Davis denied the existence of the disconnection policy in a television interview on [[CNN]].<ref name="grn_haggis"/> [[Paul Haggis]], a film director, disputed this in his 2009 resignation letter from Scientology. Haggis wrote, "We all know this policy exists", and said his wife had been ordered to disconnect from her ex-Scientologist parents, "although it caused her terrible personal pain. For a year-and-a-half, [she] didn't speak to her parents and they had limited access to their grandchild. It was a terrible time."<ref name="grn_haggis">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/26/paul-haggis-scientology-prop-8|title=Film-maker Paul Haggis quits Scientology over gay rights stance|last=Brooks|first=Xan|date=26 October 2009|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News & Media|access-date=30 November 2009}}</ref><ref name="ind271009">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscarwinning-director-why-im-leaving-scientology-1809929.html|title=Oscar-winning director: why I'm leaving Scientology|last=Adams|first=Guy|date=27 October 2009|work=The Independent|publisher=Independent News and Media|access-date=30 November 2009}}</ref> In response, Davis reiterated that there is no Church policy of disconnection.<ref name="ind271009"/>

When actress [[Leah Remini]] publicly left the Church in 2013, Remini's sister, Nicole, revealed that she and the rest of Remini's family did as well to avoid being split up by the Church's disconnection policy.<ref>Traynor, Bradley (July 17, 2013). [http://www.mytalk1071.com/gossip/?var=EXCLUSIVE071713 " EXCLUSIVE: Leah Remini's Sister Nicole Talks!"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717161227/http://www.mytalk1071.com/gossip/?var=EXCLUSIVE071713 |date=2013-07-17 }}. [[myTalk 107.1 FM]].</ref>