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eat fresh. >>> scientology is now facing harsh, new criticism from one of its own.al, debra cook, blasted the church leadership in a weekend e-mail to thousands of current and former members. she calls on members to scale back on donations. abc's dan harris is here with more. and, dan, the church officials are fighting back. >> reporter: they are. good morning to you. the woman who sent this e-mail blast was once scientologist's fiercest defenders. now, she's become a very public critic. one that some say could be especially damaging to this very, very powerful church. the church of scientology, known all over the world for its celebrity members like tom cruise, john travolta and kirstie alley. it's also known for its controversies, like when a spokesman walked out of an interview with abc news. or when a bbc reporter lost it when confronting that same spokesman. now, a new upheaval involving this woman, debbie cook, who was a high-ranking official for 17 years, until she left the church staff in 2007. >> she was one of the most prominent members in the entire world

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manson was an avowed follower of scientology for a time.n was playing guitar. it was a talent for singing and songwriting, as well as manson's entourage of available young women, that grabbed the attention of some in los angeles' musical elite, including beach boy's drummer dennis wilson. >> i lived in hollywood and had all that, the rolls-royce and the ferrari, and the pad in beverly hills. i had the surfboard and the beach boys and neil diamond and and jimmy swiften and elvis presleys and the america's bestlies and all them guys. the dean martins and the nancy sinatras. and -- will you do it to me, i hear you do it good, honey. all that kind of, will you come up to my house later? so i went through all that and i seen that was a bigger prison than the one i just got out of. and i really didn't care to go back to prison. you see, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. prison's in the mind. it's locked in one world that's dead and dying or it's open to a world that's free and alive. drugs, lsd, i don't consider a drug, i don't consider p

scientology things where you're like you really like one. >> reporter: she still gets surprisingly littlea different stand-and-than my comp temporarys and peers. it's a little frustrating. >> reporter: a few years ago vanity fair did a spread on women in comedy. why the heck were you not in there? >> can i tell you, that one hit me hard. normally i try not to let that stuff bug me. but i have to admit when i saw that cover, you know, i had a couple tearful days. when i'm not in the sexiest comedians article, that one, you know, doesn't really hurt. but the vanity fair one hurt because i'm such a fan of the magazine. >> reporter: being a fan is what makes 51-year-old kathy griffin tick tick. she lays the blame squarely on her parents john and maggie and her upbringing in chicago where the griffins kept up on the latest celebrity gossip. >> our dinner table conversations were often political current events but peppered with a lot of celebrity. we put these celebrities on such a pedestal. >> reporter: you worshipped celebrity. it wasn't like a love-hate thing. >> no i only worshipped celebri