Tom & Katie Attend Scientology Benefit

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attend the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project Benefit Gala on Thursday night held at NYC’s Altman Building on W. 18th St.

The program, based on principles developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was co-founded by Cruise in 2002 and aids the New York police, firefighters and paramedics of Sept. 11.

“Nearly six years later, many are still paying a price for their heroic service at the World Trade Center. This is a profound injustice,” Tom said before the dinner. “This project has demonstrated that recovery is not only possible, but an incontrovertible fact.”

“He said how grateful he was to everyone for supporting the project,” said Patrick Bahnken, president of the New York Fire Department’s union of emergency workers and paramedics, told the New York Post. “He took time out to speak to every person. It took him an hour to get through the hallway. He was talking to everyone. It was genuine, nothing phony about it.”

The press was barred from the private dinner. Tickets cost $6,250 each.