14 DAY TRIAL // Leah Remini was a member of the Church of Scientology for almost 30 years but, those of you hearing that she left it because she’d grown tired of the abuse she’d been subjected to, and hoping to see her turn against it, will be disappointed.
Following today’s unconfirmed report that she had decided to leave the cult because she’d been interrogated for years for “daring” to question leader David Miscavige’s methods, Leah has issued a statement to People magazine.
She’s handling the entire thing with lots of grace – in fact, she’s so diplomatic about the departure that’s he doesn’t even mention it.
“I wish to share my sincere and heartfelt appreciation for the overwhelming positive response I have received from the media, my colleagues, and from fans around the world,” Remini says, acknowledging the report that she defected from the Church and, indirectly, confirming it.
“I am truly grateful and thankful for all your support,” she continues.
And that’s that.
As we also noted earlier today, the same report informing of Remini’s decision to defect also said that she had set her mind to wait until Scientology (and Miscavige) made a first step before going public and / or blow the whistle.
For years, there’s been much speculation that Miscavige is such a brutal leader that he even sent his wife Shelly to a Scientology prison-like center for thinking of leaving the cult.
Shelly, by the way, hasn’t been seen in public since 2006-2007 and is the reason why Remini fell out of favor with Miscavige, because she dared ask him at Tom Cruise’s wedding to Katie Holmes where she was.
Admittedly, Cruise yelled at Leah in front of everyone there that she didn’t “have the [expletive]-ing rank to ask about Shelly.”
Miscavige “punished” her in the years to come by subjecting her to long sessions of “interrogation” and “thought modification,” until she finally had enough of it.