A cruel and unusual punishment was meted out to
Katie Holmes recently after she declared that she'd quite like to
star in a show on Broadway and lead a slightly independent life for a while, according to US Star magazine. To punish her for her outrageous attempt at escape, hubby
Tom Cruise declared from his space throne that she attend a
Scientology boot camp.
So Katie recently attended a compound called Gold Base in California (no doubt the inside is like a Bond villain's lair) and spent three days there having her mind wiped and reprogrammed through a series of purification tests.
And it's a million of your earth miles away from the luxurious prison that Katie has been living in with Tom. The magazine reports that the camp has...
"Various tests, confession sessions, tons of reading and physically challenging purification processes. Tom insists that auditing and purification practices are incredibly beneficial to Scientologists at all levels."
So, a nice relaxing three day break in which Katie was half-starved, deprived of sleep and brainwashed to within an inch of her sanity. Still preferable to waking up to Tom's maniacal grin every morning and his lectures about the bad electrons in your Sugar Puffs.