John Stamos Reveals Why He Was Kicked Out Of Scientology, Was Told To ‘Get Out’

John Stamos has revealed why he was kicked out of the controversial religion of Scientology. Stamos explained that his idol, John Travolta, had inspired him to look into Scientology. Travolta famously became a member of the Church of Scientology in the 1970s.

“I was in an acting class, and there was this hot girl… She said, ‘You know, we’re all meeting at this address on Hollywood Boulevard; come after (class)!'” Stamos said on the Friend in High Places podcast. “I was working at my dad’s restaurant at the time, and I said, ‘Dad, I gotta, I gotta go.’ So I went, and it was the Scientology building. I was 16, 17.” 

He recalled how he was handed the E-meter, a tool used in Scientology, when he arrived. “You’re holding these two cans, so I started, you know, ‘Hello… Peabody in the Wayback Machine!'” he said in a cartoonishly old-fashioned voice. “You know, Sherman and Peabody,” in reference to the time-traveling Rocky and Bullwinkle characters.

According to Stamos, the personnel at the Scientology Center were not pleased with his reenactment. “They didn’t like that,” he said. “I was just f—ing around so much that they said, ‘Get out. Get. Go.’ They just kinda kicked me out.”

Previously, in his 2023 memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, Stamos touched on his departure from the Church of Scientology. 

In his writing, Stamos remembered a woman named Mia who gave him the book, “the size of a brick” after acting class and told him, “I think it will open your eyes to some amazing things.” Stamos recounted how he looked at the book while he worked at his dad’s restaurant and read “a lot about control: controlling your reactionary mind, controlling energy, controlling space, and controlling time.” 

He recalled his reaction, “Where’s the part about acting? And who’s this L. Ron guy who wrote a bunch of his opinions in here?”

Stamos recently revealed that he was abused as a child.