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  • Leah Remini Reaches Out to HBO Filmmakers, Thanks Them for Scientology Documentary

    Leah Remini has reached out to HBO filmmakers following the network’s airing of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. The former King of Queens star wanted to thank HBO for broadcasting the powerful documentary.

    It was back in 2013 that Leah Remini made a high-profile exit from the Church of Scientology, calling the church’s leader David Miscavige out on keeping secrets from its members. She also filed a missing persons report on Shelly Miscavige, the leader’s wife. She hasn’t been seen in public since 2007.

    Leah Remini thanked all involved with Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief via Twitter.

    It was about a year ago when Leah Remini spoke out about her reasons for having left the Church of Scientology.

    “They say they’re loving, caring, non-judgmental people, but secretly, they were judging the world for not believing what they believed. To me, that is not a spiritual person. That’s a judgmental person, and that is the person that I was. I was a hypocrite, and the worst thing you can be in this world is a hypocrite,” she said.

    She added that “everything the Church taught me was a lie.”

    After a representative of the Church of Scientology issued a statement about Leah Remini, calling her a “self-absorbed woman” as well as a woman “with an insatiable craving for attention,” the Leah Remini: It’s All Relative star got the last word.

    “I don’t want to be known as this bitter ex-Scientologist. I’m not trying to bash anybody, and I’m not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth,” she said.

    Leah Remini no doubt believes that these HBO filmmakers uncovered the truth in Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.

    Did you see the documentary about the Church of Scientology that aired on HBO Sunday night?

  • Leah Remini Speaks to Ellen: Break From Scientology

    Leah Remini has finally spoken out about her break with the ill-reputed Church of Scientology that has many devout celebrity followers. She spoke to Ellen Degeneres on Monday’s episode of Ellen. The former star of “King of Queens” was there to promote her upcoming run on “Dancing with the Stars”, but things quickly turned to the controversial topic, as those were the questions on everyone’s mind since her July defection from the Church.

    “My mother got involved when we were very young, so it’s all we ever really knew,” Remini said. “But over time, my eyes opened and I could just no longer be affiliated with the organization and my family felt the same, so we left.”

    “How are you?” DeGeneres asked. “I hear it’s different than leaving another religion, so are you OK?”

    “I’m OK,” she said. “It’s hard. We lost friends that can no longer talk to us who are still in the organization.”

    “Now, that is a thing? When you leave the church they can’t talk to you and you can’t talk to them?” DeGeneres asked.

    “Correct. And these are friends that we’ve had for dozens of years,” Remini continued. “But I have great friends, other friends that are not in the church, that have stood by us. Our family is stronger, we’re together and that’s all I can ask for.”

    “You have me. I’m you’re friend! We’re your friends!” DeGeneres said.

    Remini spoke very carefully about the church and didn’t give many in-depth answers, but when she left the faith during the summer, she told People: “No one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to.”

    Reportedly, all of this began when Remini had to undergo “interrogations” and “thought modification” because the church allegedly bars members from questioning leaders’ management. She had allegedly repeatedly asked about the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, church leader David Miscavige’s wife, at the 2006 wedding of Tom Cruise to Katie Holmes, and became suspicious when her inquests were shrugged off.

    In August, Remini reportedly filed a missing persons report for Miscavige, who allegedly hasn’t been seen in public for six years, but police closed out the investigation quickly after they supposedly had “a face-to-face with Shelly” and declared the missing persons report “unfounded.”

    Among other reasons she supposedly left the church was her disagreement with policies that allegedly force members to “disconnect” from family members deemed “suppressive persons” if they choose to leave the church.

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