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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I stand corrected.
It’s been some years.
I have been corrected.
Withdrawn.
I have been corrected.
Withdrawn.
Watched it last week. Eye opening.
The problem is that Scientology is not a religion, it is much closer to organized crime, imo.
Two words: Clearwater FL.
5.56mm
And John Travolta.
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???
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.
I remember Rosie O’Donnell saying that but not Leah.
Yes.
Lea did not say it.
I have, as they say, “shown my ass.”
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.
Good thing SJS isn’t a judge and executioner.
Its just King of Queens II then.
I had enough of the original.
“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
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.”
Perhaps I owe you an apology?
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