Set those DVRs! ABC News revealed on Friday, October 30, that Katie Holmes, former wife of famed Scientologist Tom Cruise, will speak out about ex-Scientologist Leah Remini during the King of Queen star’s much-anticipated 20/20 special.
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Leah Remini’s book Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology – which will put the religion on blast from the inside – is due out next week.
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More about this actress’ experience with Scientology will be revealed when her interview on ABC’s “20/20” airs Friday night.
As for the church, its spokesperson told People Remini was “on the verge of being expelled for her ethical lapses” when she quit in 2013.
The actress revealed that “being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself” because you’ll be considered “evil” by other churchgoers for your skepticism. “You’re given a lot of responsibility, and so your ego becomes extremely inflated”.
Later, she also hinted that she left the church because of her 9-year-old daughter Sofia and her fear her life was already starting to “resemble her own much-resented Scientology-centric childhood in Florida”.
Remini stars alongside her family on TLC’s “It’s All Relative”. “The mindset becomes us against them”.
“The decision to leave [Scientology] is you’re giving up everything you have ever known and everything you have worked for your whole life”, she told Harris. “I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life”.
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She adds that church officials thought nothing of making crude sexual remarks to the children, and that one high-ranking elder remarked to her 13-year-old sister, “You have big t-ts for such a young girl”.
