Scientology says those clips of Tom Cruise helped the church; it became a hot search engine item.

“Having presented these selective and out-of-context excerpts with the intent of creating both controversy and ridicule resulted in people searching for Church of Scientology Web sites,” a rep for the faith told Page Six. Scientology turned up on the “most searched for” lists of various search engines. But whoever leaked the video is still in trouble. An insider told us, “The clip on the Internet was nine minutes long - but the original was way longer. It was edited to make Tom look really crazy.”

Uh-oh…what’s next? Will Britney Spears’ bipolar antics turn out to be a career-saver afterall?