Actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith stunned fans when they announced they were opening a $1.2 million school, New Village Academy, in Calabasas, Calif., in 2008.

Will said at the time, "There are just very powerful educational concepts that we believe in, and we feel like we want to design the system that revolutionizes public education."

The couple insisted that despite rumors, they were not Scientologists, and that the school would be secular. But now, the woman who was hired as the first principal of that school, which closed earlier this year, is stepping forward to claim that that was all a lie. Jacqueline Olivier tells Scientology expert Tony Ortega that the school was actually "100 percent" Scientology-focused, on the Smiths' orders, and that the controversial curriculum failed the kids it was supposed to help.

Olivier says that when she first met with the Smiths, they insisted New Village Academy was "an opportunity to found a school. They were going to spend a lot of money. It was going to be secular, and it would use best educational practices." That would include, the Smiths said, the "Study Technology" curriculum created by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, which encourages children to make clay models of difficult concepts and look up any words they do not understand in readings.

But, Ortega says, she soon realized that "calling it secular was a sham."

"I started finding out … what they were really up to," she says.

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At a home school the Smiths ran  before New Village, "All of them were Scientologists," she says. " … al the t