Actress and Scientology whistleblower Leah Remini credits her 16-year-old daughter with being more &#8220;woke&#8221; about social and racial causes.
Speaking with Drew Barrymore on her talk show, Remini said that her daughter will often discover social causes, such as systemic racism and climate change, for her to champion on social media.
&#8220;She sends me things that I should be posting on social media about systemic racism, social [injustice],&#8221; Remini said. “[She’s] constantly saying, ‘mom, you need to be doing this,’ I need less plastics in this house. Here&#8217;s another water we need to &#8230; She’s very conscious, and that’s why she gets away with being 16 to her mommy.”
Barrymore said that while she wishes youth would live simpler lives away from social media, she believed that the tradeoff is them having a more conscious mind about the world.
&#8220;I sometimes wish that we could be raising kids with playing until the street lights go on and no social media, but that’s just not the world we live in,&#8221; Barrymore said. &#8220;I do think a trade-off is this wokeness, this awareness that’s incredible.&#8221;
&#8220;I wasn’t thinking about these things when I was her age,&#8221; Remini added. &#8220;I was thinking about Jordash and Sergio Valente. Stuart’s what I was thinking about.&#8221;
&#8220;So the fact that they are now aware of the world around them and they are — to me, it makes me so proud to know that she’s somebody who cares about what’s happening in the world, that isn’t just about her world, that she can affect change,&#8221; she concluded.
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Through her A&amp;E docuseries “Scientology and The Aftermath,” Leah Remini has preached heavily against Scientology <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50697/leah-remini-scientology-must-have-its-tax-exempt-paul-bois">while demanding</a> the United States government revoke its tax-exempt status.
“The church certainly knows that there are rapes, molestations and physical abuse going on — which is why I keep saying I think the FBI would be successful if they conducted a raid, as they did in 1977,” Remini told The Hollywood Reporter (THR) in 2019. “Every crime that Scientology has ever committed or hidden is contained in their folders. I don’t know that I’ve begun the healing process. When Scientology’s tax-exempt status is revoked and people are in prison, that’s when I’ll start healing. Until then, I’m still in the fight.”
During his administration, President Trump reportedly <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359730-trump-thinks-scientology-should-lose-its-tax-exempt-status">expressed interest</a> in potentially revoking Scientology’s tax-exempt status, though no actions were ever taken. Should Scientology lose its tax-exempt status, which was granted to the organization in 1993, the fallout <a href="https://fortune.com/2015/04/08/scientology-tax-exempt/">would be colossal</a> in financial terms.
Last December, Remini berated celebrity Tom Cruise after his infamous COVID-19 rant on the set of &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; went viral, saying it was a part of some Scientology publicity stunt.
“Tom does not care about the families of his crew; this is all for publicity,” Remini wrote on the anti-Scientology blog <a title="(opens new window)" href="https://tonyortega.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1">The Underground Bunker</a>. “Tom does not believe in family values. I mean, how anyone is falling for this is just mind-blowing. I would bet that Tom had this rant written for him and had his Scientology assistant record and release it. Hearing a rich actor with enormous power address his crew in this way is a sign of weakness and a deeply troubled person.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leah-remini-tom-cruises-psychotic-rant-a-publicity-stunt">Leah Remini: Tom Cruise’s ‘Psychotic Rant’ A Publicity Stunt</a>

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While celebrities from Whoopi Goldberg to George Clooney have defended Tom Cruise&#8217;s infamous rant about COVID-19 protocols on set, actress and famed Scientologist defector Leah Remini says they have all been duped by a publicity stunt.
In a post last week on the anti-Scientology blog <a title="(opens new window)" href="https://tonyortega.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1">The Underground Bunker</a>, Remini called Cruise&#8217;s tirade a “psychotic rant” from an &#8220;abusive person.&#8221;
“Tom does not care about the families of his crew; this is all for publicity,” Remini wrote. “Tom does not believe in family values. I mean, how anyone is falling for this is just mind-blowing. I would bet that Tom had this rant written for him and had his Scientology assistant record and release it. Hearing a rich actor with enormous power address his crew in this way is a sign of weakness and a deeply troubled person.”
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“Tom seems to think that Hollywood is incapable of making films without his help. Saying such a thing indicates the godlike figure Tom believes he is, and what he is told by Scientology,” Remini continued. “The reality is, anyone who is working in Hollywood today is working under strict COVID guidelines. Anyone who is working knows this. Tom Cruise is not dictating how films are being made, even if he seems to think so.”
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Remini even asserted that the rant showed the true Tom Cruise.
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“He is an abusive person. I witnessed it, I’ve been a recipient of it on a small level, and I’ve been told of similar abuse by his former girlfriend, his employees, and his friends,” Remini wrote. “This is the real Tom.”
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“This is not just a guy in the middle of a public place standing up to someone for not wearing a mask. This is Tom friggin’ Cruise wielding his power and threatening and degrading his crew,&#8221; she later noted.
In response to Remini&#8217;s claims, the Church of Scientology told <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/leah-remini-slams-tom-cruises-on-set-covid-safety-rant-he-is-an-abusive-person/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1">The Wrap</a> that she is an &#8220;unreliable source&#8221; and that the church has taken action to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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“The Church of Scientology has done more than any other religious institution in promoting COVID-19 prevention actions ― throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Long before ‘stay at home’ directives, the Church took aggressive actions to prevent the spread of the virus,” it read. “The Church’s leader acted well ahead of the curve. Remini is an unreliable source who attacks Scientology for publicity and money ― as she herself has admitted.”
During his infamous rant that quickly went viral, Tom Cruise scolded his crew for allegedly breaking on-set protocol and characterized himself as some kind of film industry savior.
“They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us. We are creating thousands of jobs, you motherf****rs,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHteO55JzD4&amp;feature=youtu.be">he shouted</a>. “That’s it. No apologies. You can tell it to the people that are losing their f***ing homes because our industry is shut down. “
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-goldberg-defends-tom-cruises-viral-covid-19-rant">‘I Get It’: Whoopi Goldberg Defends Tom Cruise’s Viral COVID-19 Rant, Argues Other Crew Replaceable</a>
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Leah Remini: Tom Cruise’s ‘Psychotic Rant’ A Publicity Stunt

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On Monday, actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini published an <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/concerning-paul-haggis/&#8203;">open letter</a> in defense of filmmaker Paul Haggis. Remini coauthored the letter with her &#8220;Scientology and the Aftermath&#8221; partner, former Scientologist Mike Rinder.
For background, a lawsuit was filed on December 15, 2017, in which publicist Haleigh Breest alleges that Haggis raped her in 2013. Three other women spoke with the <a href="https://apnews.com/27e0ac12da194d3ca980b155fe9d0b94?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=APEntertainment">Associated Press</a> on condition of anonymity, claiming they had also been victims of sexual misconduct at the hands of the filmmaker.
The Associated Press adds that on January 5, &#8220;Breest&#8217;s attorneys filed an amended complaint that includes details of the allegations lodged by the three new accusers.&#8221;
Haggis filed a counter-complaint and denied the allegations. He also claimed that Breest and her attorney approached him prior to the lawsuit and attempted to extort him for $9 million.
Enter Remini and Rinder. Like the co-stars of A&amp;E&#8217;s hit documentary series &#8220;Scientology and the Aftermath,&#8221; Paul Haggis used to be a Scientologist. The filmmaker left the church in 2009, and was featured in season two, episode six, of Remini&#8217;s show, which aired on September 19, 2017.
For anyone who hasn&#8217;t watched the show, the premise is this: Remini and Rinder travel the country and speak with former members of the Church of Scientology. These individuals discuss the mental, physical, and sexual abuse they allegedly suffered while in the church, as well as the ruin it supposedly brings to those who try to flee.
The church &#8212; which is famously litigious &#8212; has gone after the show and its stars with incredible force. In addition to launching a website in order to discredit both Leah Remini and the stories presented on &#8220;Scientology and the Aftermath,&#8221; the church placed commercials on YouTube in which Remini is made to look like a fraud.
The church has even targeted A&amp;E&#8217;s advertisers, demanding they boycott the show, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientologists-urge-advertisers-to-boycott-a-es-leah-remini-show-1508148004&#8203;">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
In their joint-open letter, Remini and Rinder first write of the dangers of defending someone accused of sexual assault or misconduct:
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There is plenty of reason to worry about defending anyone accused of sexual assault in today&#8217;s climate. But the fear of consequences for speaking our truth has not held us back in the past and isn&#8217;t about to start now.
We have supported victims of sexual abuse who have reached out to us and have worked with them and law enforcement to ensure justice is done for both victims and the accused. We have avoided trial by media.
In this time of heightened awareness of sexual predators, it is easy to remain quiet when an injustice is being perpetrated for fear of being tarred as politically incorrect. But more important to us than being politically correct is standing up for what we believe is right.
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Remini and Rinder go on to defend Haggis as &#8220;a good man who has been a friend to us and so many others.&#8221; They call him a man who has &#8220;championed the rights of women, the LGBT community and has fought for and devoted himself to the underprivileged in the world.&#8221;
In the remainder of the open letter, they note that due to Scientology&#8217;s practice of &#8220;declaring&#8221; those who leave the church as &#8220;suppressive persons,&#8221; their alleged practice of defaming those &#8220;suppressive persons&#8221; by utilizing the information they have acquired through years of &#8220;auditing,&#8221; and the anonymous nature of the latest accusers, the allegations are &#8220;very suspect.&#8221;
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Like all of us, Paul Haggis is not perfect. Unlike a lot of us, he is truly a gentleman. A gentle man, with impeccable manners and a generous heart.
Like those of us who were scientologists, we trusted and confided in our church to seek resolution for our shortcomings. What is different about scientology is the detailed records they maintain of everything you tell them. And beyond that, they conduct intense interrogations based on the idea that only when all specifics and details are disclosed can one find relief. The names, dates, and minute details of any indiscretions, and even thoughts, are all recorded.
It is not a crime to be attracted to women (or men). It&#8217;s not a crime to flirt. Or to have sexual relations with someone. It might not be acceptable to your significant other (if you have one), but it certainly isn&#8217;t criminal nor worthy of newspaper headlines.
Only a scientologist can understand the pressure one feels to offer up even the slightest thing that the scientology organization might consider a transgression of THEIR mores. This information is used against anyone who departs scientology and dares speak their mind. This is not imaginary. There is a documented history of such things. When someone is declared an &#8220;enemy&#8221; by scientology, they are fair game.
With the name of everyone one might have thought of, flirted with or taken on a date, it takes little imagination to conjure a string of accusers being contacted and suddenly appearing out of the woodwork.
We expect the next &#8220;revelations&#8221; about Paul Haggis in this campaign to destroy him to be based on information culled from his scientology files in the form of more &#8220;anonymous&#8221; accusers, hiding behind a lawyer who will never have to disclose who is paying their bill.
Those who accuse without going to law enforcement, those who seek hush money to keep their stories secret, those who make accusations to the media anonymously &#8211; they are suspect. And when the target of these tactics is someone who is a prominent critic of scientology, it is very suspect.
Paul Haggis deserves, based on his record as a gentleman and humanitarian, to be judged when all the evidence has been taken under penalty of perjury in a court of law. Because claims of anonymous accusers who have NOT gone to law enforcement are not credible.
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Unsurprisingly, the church has <a href="http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/leah-remini-defends-paul-haggis-scientologist-allegations-suspect-1202664630/amp/">responded</a>, calling Remini and Rinder&#8217;s letter a &#8220;reprehensible smokescreen to turn horrific sexual assault and rape allegations made against Haggis by four women into a bigoted attack about their former religion.&#8221;
The church adds that &#8220;Ms. Breest has nothing to do with Scientology,&#8221; and that the three anonymous women have no connection to Scientology.
&#8220;To be clear, the Church has never met the women in this case nor their attorneys and knows nothing about the accusations against Haggis other than what has appeared in press reports and public court documents,&#8221; claims the statement from the church.

Leah Remini Defends Filmmaker And Ex-Scientologist Paul Haggis Against ‘Very Suspect’ Allegations; Suggests Church May Be Involved

Host of Tru TV&#8217;s Billy On The Street, Billy Eichner, created an &#8220;Escape From Scientology&#8221; obstacle course with all the bells and whistles, including a giant volcano, a billion-year contract, and a gay husband.
Former Saturday Night Live Star Rachel Dratch, was tasked with running the harrowing course, but instead of racing through as her famous character Debbie Downer, she had to play Scientology&#8217;s latest &#8220;Debbie Downer,&#8221; TV actress Leah Remini, who recently made a public departure from the L. Ron Hubbard worshiping cult.
Billy explained, &#8220;There are several obstacles. In the first few obstacles you are joining Scientology, then there&#8217;s a twist. You decide you need to escape from the religion, save your kids, save your friends, and most importantly, save your acting career.&#8221;
Dratch heroically persevered, crossing the finish-line right into a handshake deal to star in a new show on TV Land, only to realize it was all make-believe, just like Scientology.
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