He wouldn’t even have a conversation and go, “Wow, my kid’s here, my wife’s here, my brother’s here, they all came to see me, why don’t I stop a minute and hear what they have to say.” No, he wouldn’t listen to us, he then grabbed my mom’s arm and I guess there was a key or something he had in his hand, his car key and he’s grabbing her arm so bad, she’s going, “Ow, ow, ow, ow! Taryn Teutsch, Mike Rinder’s daughter, says that because of the way her father treated her when she was growing up, she thought he hated her. What a miserable way to live. He is the ONLY family member missing from the last 6 family vacations we have taken from Australia to New York and this last Christmas at Disneyworld. And so he should have been afraid. Like meaning, when I saw him I was like, “Whoa. I don’t remember how old I was at the time. And everyone is just so much more vibrant and flourishing and prospering and doing well and more successful in their jobs. Mike Rinder & Christie Collbran’s kids – … He lies about his lies, and then lies about those lies. He left behind every true friend he ever had. © 2021 Church of Scientology International. You realize he let his own mother pass away with a broken heart after he broke into her home, rummaged through her stuff and upset her horribly. He leaves both of his kids. She doesn’t even know us and certainly has no data about me, my brother, my mother and my family. It doesn’t make sense to me. In other words, the daughter of your source claiming we have no access on the Internet, can’t watch TV or see the news is on the Internet, watches TV programs and is up to date on the news. Mike’s hypocrisy is laughable because he claims to care so much about education, children and welfare and he couldn't have been a worse father. He treated us like, really like, like we were nothing. Documentary evidence supports how Mike Rinder abused his family, his former wife and even his coworkers—men and women. They got married in 1976, and together they had two kids, a son Benjamin and a daughter Taryn. He married his first wife, Catherine, while he was still working in the Sea Organization. We have a wonderful and ever-growing family and every one of us is doing great. Scientology leader David Miscavige has panicked with the approach of Season 3 of Leah Remini's Emmy-winning program Scientology and the Aftermath. For him to say anything to Leah Remini in her show or otherwise—factually to anybody for that matter, especially people that—I don't know them at all. As a dad, I wouldn’t really call him a dad. Like everything got better. I don’t remember ever seeing my family as much, or see and feel our family as close as we are now, since he was removed, or removed himself from our family. About the lie forwarded regarding Scientology taking precedence over anything else in your life: Well this is a manifestation of the blatant refusal by him and any others who listen to him to actually look at Scientology and what we believe in. So how does that person consult with, or become a consultant for that subject matter? Mike is bitter because he is missing out on this. And education is one of the most important aspects of our religion! Not one single piece of communication. So he disconnects from his family. As you can see she is proudly announcing that her daughter Manaka was a Class V auditor and Clear at age 14 and joined the Sea Org at age 15. Meanwhile, Mike Rinder couldn’t care less. He deserted my brother, mother and me on June 10, 2007. —Mike Rinder . But not only that but he actually—I don’t know exactly, technically what he did but he pulled her arm out, okay. Mike Rinder and Leah Remini used that quote in their program without once ever talking to Cathy Tweed to get an update on how she’s doing with her own daughter’s suicide 3 years later. I went there with my mom and my uncle thinking, “Okay good, let’s go see him and give him the benefit of the doubt and see if we can reconcile this, once and for all. Rinder rides to the rescue … Mike Rinder is a family man and has married twice in his life. Letter from Taryn Teutsch, daughter of Mike Rinder, to ABC. He didn’t attend her funeral and was nowhere to be found when his son was battling life-threatening cancer. Letter from Taryn Teutsch, daughter of Mike Rinder, to ABC Mike’s hypocrisy is laughable because he claims to care so much about education, children and welfare and he couldn't have been a worse father. In fact, I make it my business to know about the world as we aim to help people worldwide every day. All Rights Reserved. I am the daughter of a domestic violence survivor. Mike Rinder was once the international spokesperson for the Church of Scientology, but when Remini sat down with him almost a decade after he left the church, he showed her a … Michael John Rinder (/ ˈ r ɪ n d ər /; born 10 April 1955) is an Australian-American former senior executive of the Church of Scientology International (CSI) and the Sea Organization based in the United States. Scientology Deaths and Suicides. And I was just with Andrew and Pat last weekend. And that's been just part of what Mike Rinder-- once the brains behind Scientology's handling of the media until he himself left the group in 2007 -- calls a dazzling strategy. My brother and I suffered much distress because of his uncaring attitude toward us. Mike Rinder: Wife Beater. Shortly after that she got very ill, within probably I would say about a year. Mike’s sister and her family are coming. To do that, she brought out Mike Rinder, the former international spokesperson for the church. My father is the outsider. And my brother and Jackie and my cousin in Florida spent the weekend with Andrew and Pat a few weeks before that. Never. To suggest we can’t use the Internet is ludicrous. We have a very, very close knit family. I live life to the fullest and that depends on family. And he’s hurting her like, badly hurting her. He never cared. But the truth is, he did nothing to actually help us personally. We’re happy with that.” But he wouldn’t stop and so she kept saying, “Can you please stop doing this, can you please just…” Okay, so then that incident happened where he went in her room. Stop, Mike stop!” And he gouged her arm. And now her daughter Kiki, who is 13, is on her professional auditor training line-up. Part of his job, he said, “was to discredit and destroy critics who spoke out against the church.” He never cared. So she’s saying, “Mike, please just—can you not do this? And I remember going, “Oh my god, he hates her.” Like he was just like, “Grrr! You can be sure, at that point, I disowned him forever. An Open Letter from Mike Rinder’s Daughter Taryn to Nancy Dubuc, CEO of A&E How dare you air lies from your “producer” Mike Rinder—my father—to cover up the lifetime of mental anguish and abuse he inflicted on my brother and me. Like by true definition he's the one that disconnected. The site is also not intended to be a museum, but rather a place where photos can be viewed, grouped, commented upon, analyzed, and interpreted for those interested in the photographs. Then he starts attacking the one thing that, you know, the thing she’s put her heart into the most and our religion and our family and he starts attacking that. I have no recollection of even seeing him or—I’m trying—you know I thought about it recently and I was like, “Wow, I don’t think he was ever there.” Not once, but my mom was there every single day. So he has to place the blame elsewhere. And yet he is the exact opposite of that. Mike Rinder’s domestic abuse and violence is a matter of public record. He fully and utterly misrepresents me, my lifestyle, my church, my friends, my mom, my brother, my family and everything having to do with it and does it knowingly—and does it to meet his own ends and so for me that signifies a liar. She’s had an operation. Photos, videos, and other materials. Church of Scientology letter to ABC News Senior Vice President, Church’s social betterment and humanitarian programs, Church of Scientology response to ABC News on Church growth, Church of Scientology response to ABC News-20/20 Inquiry #1, Church of Scientology letter on Remini clips, Church of Scientology response on questions pertaining to Mike Rinder, Church of Scientology response to ABC News-20/20 Inquiry #2, Church of Scientology response to ABC News-20/20 Inquiry #3, Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International, Association for Better Living and Education, Church of Scientology statement re Leah Remini, Building for the Future of the Scientology Religion. Mike Rinder has been lying his whole life and I will continue to speak the truth about him until he stops attacking his own family, our religion and our lives. Against Mike Rinder. And if you ask me right now, I can’t—I don’t remember my dad ever being there, ever, ever, ever. Don’t let him pull the wool over your eyes. Because of the way he treated me and because of those non-gestures by an early, my early teens or late teens I thought he hated me. I read The Week, fashion mags and anything else I have an interest in or want to find out about. Tom Cruise and daughter Suri leave Manhattan by helicopter at the West Side Heliport in 2012. Rinder shows his hatred toward women by publicly trashing Cathy and their daughter, Taryn, who has courageously stood up for her mother. The site is also not intended to be a museum, but rather a place where photos can be viewed, grouped, commented upon, analyzed, and interpreted for those interested in the photographs. Taryn Teutsch, Mike Rinder’s daughter, says that because of the way her father treated her when she was growing up, she thought he hated her. And we’re going to go in December. Because as a consultant, you would think it would be someone that does whatever that thing is, that is a good example of whatever you’re trying to show. My comment on him being a consultant for Leah Remini on the subject matter of disconnection specifically is actually a little bit laughable. My grandmother had quite a few times spoken up and or written to him saying, “Please stop, stop attacking my family, my church.” Like, she is a founding Scientologist, her and my grandfather were. He violently attacked his then-estranged wife in Clearwater, Florida, when she, their daughter and Rinder’s brother approached him to offer their help. So now it’s years later, right now, as we’re talking, 2016, and every day she’s in pain, every single day. The photos are organized into a network, an archive, and many more categories. I was born into Scientology and have remained a dedicated Scientologist. The list goes on. Predatory Alienation, Religion and the Law. They've never experienced my life or my family's life and my childhood or what I went through or even now in the present the way that our family operates—which is amazing, the best ever. I have known the Gillham children for nearly 50 years. And so they’ve put a lot of their own lives and love and their heart into creating this religion and forwarding it. It just didn’t happen. She was ashamed over how her son turned out—an incessant liar who deserted his own children and family and continues to try to harm people of good will. … She had surgery and she’ll never have proper function of it.”. My latest download is the new Adele song and before that it was the Aloha movie. So he was all frantic about that and crazy. Miscavige has even resorted to calling in Kirstie Alley for help. Like, I was positive. Her posts consists of videos where she talks about how physically abusive he was to her mother and how she wants to stand up to domestic violence. This could not be further from the truth. He is just bitter because he deserted us and never cared about his family or made the time for any of us. After all, that is the product of a good education, isn’t it? It was always our mother who was there for us. When I was 8 years old I got hit by a car. Link to Instagram Taryn’s Instagram Let’s talk about Mike Rinder’s daughter, Taryn Teutsch Taryn has her own Instagram account which she advertises her “#FireMikeRinder campaign. Can you please—I’m fine on you not being in Scientology, we’re all okay on that. From her enlightening docu-series and eye-opening memoir to her new podcast with Mike Rinder (pictured above), it's clear Remini is determined to share the truth about the group. Justice, compassion, benevolence, kindness, tolerance, belief, respect, friendliness, self-control, honesty, loyalty, love and integrity—these are the words that describe any Scientologist and our actions. Photos, videos, and other materials. Mike has no respect for his family, no consideration for our welfare or our requests for him to get on with his life and leave us and our religion alone. I mean, he was still married to her at this time even though he decided to go with another woman but that’s a whole ‘nother story. No it’s not!” And I can’t remember what he said but I think he was saying like, “Yeah right.” I don’t remember what he said but it wasn’t very nice, but I do remember seeing the interaction between him and my mom. So he comes along and not only deserts his immediate family, meaning me, my brother and my mom, but her, his brother, his sister who are all also Scientologists, and their kids. Bitch!” Like really bad like, scary, I was like, “Wholly crap, that’s my dad, doing that to my mom.”, Mike’s brother Andrew then tried to talk to him even more and was like, “Look man, just stop and talk to us.” And he was just like, “I’m out of here!” and trying to get in his car and leaving and then he ends up basically like, bending my uncle’s fingers back, completely hurting him. Peter Gillham 13 Nov 1927 – 6 Dec 2020 December 8, 2020 By Mike Rinder 15 Comments Peter’s daughter, Janis, informed me that her father had passed away. So since he removed himself from our family, it’s only gotten better and better. She says that Rinder wouldn’t listen to them and he “grabbed my mom’s arms and he gouged her arm. The couple have been married since 2003 and share daughter Sofia, 14. He is a violent, unstable man who abandoned his family without notice, shredding his ex-wife’s arm so severely she will never regain full use of it. First of all I would say outright, I was, I was shocked at how bad he looked. Here he is, standing behind Leah Remini—as if she or he knows anything … What does she know? So for Mike to now tell or to say on the show or to insinuate in any way that 1) he knows anything about me, or 2) that I or my brother or my mom disconnected from him is just a total farce. A strong family is part of living—so Mike Rinder is just contradicting himself. Rinder’s daughter described the … © 1995–2021 Church of Scientology International. Mike’s hypocrisy is laughable because he claims to care so much about education, children and welfare and he couldn’t have been a worse father. WireImage. I understand you are doing a show with Mike Rinder and Leah Remini. I can access them anytime I want. November 14, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments. He didn’t even pay enough attention to know about my education, which happened to be fantastic. It was a hit and run and I almost, I almost died. I don’t know. And we went to New York, and we went to Australia. I mean they thought I might die. He looks whacked, he looks crazy to me and his eyes looked funny.” I mean, it was just—I hadn’t seen him and then I saw him and I was like, “Wow, oh my god. Not an email, not a phone call, not a note, not a goodbye. November 21, 2020 By Mike Rinder 41 Comments. Mike Rinder is a truly degraded being. Go have your life, be with Jack and your wife, that’s totally fine. It’s hurting.” You know, and he’s just like, “Yeah! With Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Christie Collbran, L. Ron Hubbard. Nothing. Mike Rinder and my mom. My family is now a 4th generation family of Scientologists (bar Mike of course). I feel for this beautiful girl (I assume her sister is similarly blessed). He left all of us. That didn’t happen before. She got very ill and then she was on her death bed, literally on her death bed. That’s, that’s Mike.” And my mom was there and she was speaking to him and at one point he totally and utterly lost it. Eager to discredit the show, Miscavige has ordered an all-out Fair Game attack against Mike Rinder. Even when he was with us he treated everybody like shit. December 21, 2020 By Mike Rinder 36 Comments. He was—you could tell his only interest in the conversation was getting something the media could use because he was like, “I’m getting the BBC on the phone” or whatever. Rinder’s Domestic Abuse and Violence. He knew he was deserting us when he did it, and he did it anyway. Just by the fact that a dad is someone that you depend on, that is there with you, that lives your life with you, that goes through your special, you are good, you are bad and all of that and I wouldn’t say that he held that function or did any of those things for me and even more so for my brother. 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