Scarlett Johansson wasted no time in setting the record straight on Wednesday.
The 38-year-old beauty fired back after ex-Scientologist Brendan Tighe told Megyn Kelly Today on Wednesday that she’d auditioned to date A-lister Tom Cruise in the wake of his February 2001 split from Nicole Kidman.
‘The very idea of any person auditioning to be in a relationship is so demeaning,’ the Ghost in the Shell star told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘I refuse for anyone to spread the idea that I lack the integrity to choose my own relationships.’
Firing back: Scarlett Johansson, 38, ripped allegations she auditioned to date Tom Cruise as ‘demeaning.’ She was snapped last year in NYC
The New York City native noted that ‘only a man aka Brendan Tighe would come up with a crazy story like that.’
Tighe claimed he saw the name of the A-list actress as he perused reports – mistakenly routed to his printer – with a list of names of the women who purportedly tried out to date the Top Gun actor.
Tighe, who spent three decades in the Church of Scientology, told Kelly that according to the report he saw, ‘another actress [named] Erika Christensen had to disconnect from Scarlett Johansson because it didn’t go well.’
The Church of Scientology has also denied the claims Tighe – who left the church seven years ago – in the national broadcast, telling Kelly in a statement that he played a minimal role in the church.
Bold: Ex-Scientologist Brendan Tighe told Megyn Kelly Today Wednesday that he saw documents indicating Johansson had auditioned to date A-lister Tom Cruise in the wake of his February 2001 split from Nicole Kidman
Centerpiece: Cruise, seen here in April in Las Vegas, has been the face of Scientology in recent times, along with fellow A-lister John Travolta
‘Brendan Tighe was a Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization security guard/night watchman from 2002 to 2009,’ the Church of Scientology International’s Karin Pouw told the talk show host in a statement.
Pouw said that ‘the “access” [Tighe] boasts of having was largely limited to viewing security cameras from a guard booth,’ and that ‘he was removed from that position for dereliction of duty.’
Tighe’s remarks came nearly six years after a Vanity Fair report stated that actress Nazanin Boniadi had auditioned to date the Days of Thunder star – and subsequently did for about three months, beginning in late 2004.
