. >> rose: tell me where you are in this relationship with scientology and what's happened there? when you publicly broke with them. >> we're best friends now. >> rose: no, you're not. you said the strangest thing though. you said if you read with some scandal involving me, you'll know somebody had a hand in it. >> and you didn't see a picture of me out there. they have long memories. they are-- i have seen what they've done to other people. ask jason beget how he was almost destroyed by them. i think when you give a modicum of celebrity, they tend to back off. i have no huge quarrel with them. >> rose: you had a reason to break. >> i had a quarrel with them, and i said what i needed to say. i wasn't going to -- >> did you do this without fear? >> well, i i don't think you do anything like that without fear. but you do it because you do it you are who you are. >> rose: true to yourself. >> and there were a lot of people that walked away very quietly. that's just not me. >> rose: had you thought about it for a while before you made the break? >> yes, i thought about it for about--