Chuck Lorre reveals decade in Scientology and billion-year contract

Chuck Lorre spent ten years as a Scientologist and signed a one-billion-year Sea Org contract, the church's full-time staff order, he writes in 'Sitcom: A Memoir', as detailed by Variety. Variety reports he joined as a young musician hoping it could heal his dying father and later left with then-wife Paula, after which friends cut them off.