"The [other trainee Scientologists] were very jealous," Navarro told journalist Steve Cannane, the author of a new book Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia.

Based on years of interviews and research, Cannane looks at how Scientology, a philosophy-cum-religion founded in 1954 by American sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, was exported to Australia. The book accuses Scientologists of carrying out intimidation tactics, false imprisonment and coerced abortions in Australia.

Central to Cannane’s book is the story of Jose Navarro.

On the Freewinds, Navarro reportedly averaged two or three hours of sleep a night ahead of Tom Cruise's birthday party aboard the ship, which acts as a floating study centre for Scientologists who can afford high-level courses.

"Any mistakes and it would be straight to the engine room," Navarro told Cannane.

But once Navarro admitted to having pre-marital sex with a fellow trainee in 2006, he was sent off Freewinds and to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) centre in Australia.



He was later told that the woman he slept with had fallen pregnant and been forced to have an abortion, Cannane wrote.

