Holmes has now responded in a statement to being called out for this: “I regret having upset Leah in the past and wish her only the best in the future”. Later she calculated that over the years she spent $2 million on Scientology training and services and donated $3 million outright. And that only after many years did they realize that there was “something rotten”, as Remini put it. They recalled their growing unease with lying about the upper levels of the Scientology hierarchy and learning more and more about the secrets of the religion.
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After Cruise’s longtime assistant resigned, Remini says that “someone decided that she had done something wrong, and she had to undergo a sec-check* that she says cost her so much that she lost her house”.
Leah, who left the Church in 2013, has lifted the top on the bunch’s most popular individuals in a stunning tell-all called Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology.
The comedian’s break from Scientology came after she began to suspect her friend Shelly Miscavige, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was missing.
Remini, a second-generation Scientologist, joined the church when she was 9 years old. “I understand that hiding behind, you know, religious bigotry is the route to go”.
“As an actor, it’s not easy to walk into a room with successful people like yourself and read a script”, she said.
Hear even more about Leah Remini’s decision to leave Scientology. Haggis said that among the people who cut him off after he left – or “disconnected” from him per church policy – are “people who’ve won Emmys because of me” and “people whose careers I’ve made”.
Presently she has conceded that she didn’t need her little girl Sofia, 11, to need to pick in the middle of family and the Church – as she opened up about Katie’s own choice to leave in 2012, tailing her split from Tom Cruise. Remini and Haggis emerged to cheers and a rising wave of iPhone cameras from the crowd. We they include the time Suri Cruise was left sobbing on the bathroom floor before Tom and Katie’s wedding.
Remini said being back in the Catholic Church has been an “amazing” comfort to her.
“At the time I was thinking of myself and my family and what we were going through; I had no idea that she was going through probably a lot more”, Remini reflected. And while Troublemaker is first and foremost a book about Scientology, it’s also a book by a working actor.
A secretive religion set up by American sci-fi writer L Ron Hubbard, it encourages people to learn about themselves and look for spiritual fulfilment through training courses. And personally, I can say yes, there is one. “[She was] subjected to doing four months of menial labor, including tasks such as digging ditches and cleaning public toilets with a toothbrush”, Remini wrote in her book. She said that she thought she saw a paparazzo on the roof of the building taking photographs.
At one point, Remini listed a few of the duties required of higher lever Scientologists, including hours of daily therapy and studying.
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Haggis said he missed Kevin Burke, a screenwriter, who asked Haggis to fire him when he resigned so he wouldn’t have to endure the pain of breaking off the friendship.
