Cartwright had met Murphy through the controversial Church of Scientology, which she in fact had joined specifically to find a husband.
"I was very successful in my career, owned my own house, but I had never even had a boyfriend," says the actress, who was born Catholic. "I wanted to get married. I thought that a church was a good place to meet somebody, fall in love and get married. I really wanted to have that life and a family."
Part of it was that, in her early 20s, she had lost her mother to cancer and a brother to drugs.
"I had been carrying that loss of family around a long time," she says, "and I wanted to fix it. Scientology was practical and had a spiritual edge."
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