Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s Mimi Faust: Scientology Admission “They Wanted Me To Sign A Contract”
During Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta season one episode seven, cast member Mimi Faust makes a series of admissions about her ties to Scientology.
The show is, basically, the overwrought spin-off to Love & Hip Hop proper. Although the former is more elaborate in its contrived storytelling and it feels scripted with its Daytime Emmys acting. But it’s mostly watchable as filler save some of the boring characters (like Rasheeda Buckner).
In this episode, entitled “Therapy?”, an on-off couple with a daughter together seek on-camera couple’s counselling complete with scripted tears and breakthroughs about cheating and tolerating cheating because neither were hugged enough as children.
Faust has been in a long-term relationship with producer Stevie J (nicknamed “Stebie” by Bossip.com for the way his mistress pronounces his name with her accent). Stevie J has been having some kind of sexual relationship with Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Joseline Hernandez who, supposedly, he got pregnant then goaded her into an abortion “for her career” then kept sleeping with both women while playing them against each other. Hernandez will apparently appear in a three-way group therapy session next week in which she’ll physically assault her lover.
During this week’s session though, the therapist asks Faust about her relationship with her mother. To which she replies: “She was always searching for something, different religions… When my mother joined Scientology, they wanted me to sign a contract to work for them and I refused. I was kicked out at 13. And my mother was so consumed with her life, in that religion, that we lost contact for many years… where she ended up, she stayed there until she died. She gave up her kids, everything, for what she wanted to do.”
To what is Faust referring when talking about “a contract”? Well, even without further elaboration, one could safely conjuncture she’s talking about the Sea Org; Scientology’s elite core of its most dedicated members who agree to sign a billion year contact because, in the religion, one’s soul does not diminish the way a body does since a body is merely considered a temporary vessel (moreover, Scientologists believe in reincarnation).
It also sounds like Faust is addressing “disconnection,” from her own mother, a term used for Scientology doctrine where members are effectively excommunicated. And friends/ relatives of that person who remain in the church are required to never speak with them again because the defector is considered to be an “SP,” a “suppressive person,” an anti-social personality (a.k.a. sociopath), who wants to bring down the church. In this case, it sounds like Faust was “kicked out” for not joining the Sea Org. Then it sounds like her mother disconnected from her, although her mother stayed with the church until death.
The same question, incidentally, is asked of Stevie J, who says he never had a relationship with his mother since he never knew his mother.
