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Leah Remini Doubles Down on Anti-Scientology Crusade: I Want a Federal Investigation
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 8/9/2017 | Seth Abramovitch

Posted on 08/09/2017 10:10:08 AM PDT by simpson96

Some moments from Leah Remini's childhood will never fade. Like the afternoon she rode a graffiti-covered B Train with her big sister, Nicole — at ages 8 and 10, their first time alone on New York City mass transit. Their journey took them from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to Times Square — a seedy porn-theater mecca in the late '70s — and the Church of Scientology building on 46th Street. There, they met their mother, Vicki, a divorcee whose new boyfriend had indoctrinated the family in the self-fulfillment movement. "We went all-in, because Scientology is an all-in proposition," says Remini. "My mother thought she'd found the answers to her life and, you know, our future."

Three decades later, Remini is going home again. The 47-year-old actress and anti-Scientology activist is currently relocating from Los Angeles, her home since age 13, back to the East Coast. The move is a practical one: She's joining the cast of Kevin Can Wait, part of a major second-season retooling of the CBS sitcom that sees the departure of its current female lead, Erinn Hayes. Beginning Aug. 7, Remini will be seated in a Long Island soundstage alongside Kevin James, her TV husband for nine years on The King of Queens, for the season's first table reads. But right now, she's just trying to cram her life into cardboard boxes. "It's been really trying," she offers wearily on July 28. "I've never been apart from my daughter for longer than five days." Sofia, 13, has opted to remain in her current school and will travel to see her mother on weekends with her father, Remini's husband of 14 years, singer-actor Angelo Pagan.

Remini also will continue to produce and star in Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath — the second season premieres Aug. 15. This enthralling A&E

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To: Bob434

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29042


41 posted on 08/09/2017 11:53:17 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Envisioning

Really.

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29042


42 posted on 08/09/2017 11:53:35 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: montag813

I stand corrected.
It’s been some years.


43 posted on 08/09/2017 11:54:57 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

I have been corrected.
Withdrawn.


44 posted on 08/09/2017 11:55:29 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

I have been corrected.
Withdrawn.


45 posted on 08/09/2017 11:55:40 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: gattaca
Netflix has a documentary called “My Scientology” that’s good.

Watched it last week. Eye opening.

46 posted on 08/09/2017 12:29:17 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The problem is that Scientology is not a religion, it is much closer to organized crime, imo.


47 posted on 08/09/2017 12:32:54 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: simpson96

Two words: Clearwater FL.

5.56mm


48 posted on 08/09/2017 12:36:30 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Bob434

And John Travolta.


49 posted on 08/09/2017 12:47:38 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Snickering Hound

Churches are already snookered into even thinking they need “tax exempt status”, what was it about “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...” that they didn’t get???


50 posted on 08/09/2017 12:52:45 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Thank You Rush

The last name’s Italian, and based on her willingness to fight there’s probably some Sicilian in there. Scientology is akin to the whole AGW cult. How anyone cannot recognize such a blatant fraud is beyond comprehension. AGW ruins careers, but Scientology ruins lives.


51 posted on 08/09/2017 1:02:58 PM PDT by katana
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To: SJSAMPLE

I remember Rosie O’Donnell saying that but not Leah.


52 posted on 08/09/2017 1:05:18 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Slyfox

Yes.
Lea did not say it.

I have, as they say, “shown my ass.”


53 posted on 08/09/2017 1:07:23 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Good. get rid of them all.Let them all pay taxes. Religion should be a private thing. , like let’s all meet at your house on Sunday, Saturday, or whatever.


54 posted on 08/09/2017 1:45:54 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: montag813; SJSAMPLE

Good thing SJS isn’t a judge and executioner.


55 posted on 08/09/2017 1:49:22 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: oldvirginian

Its just King of Queens II then.

I had enough of the original.


56 posted on 08/09/2017 4:29:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SJSAMPLE
You seem very delicate

“I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.” ―P. J. O'Rourke

57 posted on 08/09/2017 7:14:01 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: Army Air Corps
So you have questions about Scientology...
58 posted on 08/09/2017 7:26:50 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: montag813; SJSAMPLE; Bob434; Bloody Sam Roberts

SJ is well within his rights under Scientology’s “Fair Game” policy:

“...opponents who are “fair game” may be “deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”


59 posted on 08/09/2017 7:33:56 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Perhaps I owe you an apology?


60 posted on 08/09/2017 7:36:23 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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