Leah Remini Quits Scientology After 'Years Of Interrogations'

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7-11-2013

Jessica Goodman

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/leah-remini-scientology_n_...

Leah Remini, the star of "King of Queens," has reportedly quit Scientology.

According to the New York Post, Remini was subjected to "years of 'interrogations' and 'thought modifications'" after she questioned Scientology leader David Miscavige.

Scientologist expert and former Village Voice editor Tony Ortega uncovered Remini's rift with the church earlier this week. He said that at the wedding of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, Remini asked Miscavige, who was also Cruise's best man, why his wife was absent.

Ortega reported that Miscavige's wife has been "kept out of sight at a secretive Scientology facility near Lake Arrowhead." After the wedding, Remini wrote church-authorized reports in which she criticized Miscavige and his leadership.

In the years that followed, the actress and her family were reportedly subjected to repeated questioning and hostility.

Lest it is forgotten, Remini was one of the first people to ever lay eyes on Suri Cruise.

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SCIENTOLOGY CELEBRITY REBELLION: Leah Remini Dared to Ask, “Where’s Shelly?”

Tony Ortega

http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/08/scientology-celebrity-rebellion-le...

After she made her complaints, Remini was ordered to go to Scientology’s spiritual headquarters — the “Flag Land Base” in Clearwater, Florida — for “thought modification,” which consisted of extensive “sec-checking” and what the church calls the “Truth Rundown.”

“Security checking” is Scientology’s version of interrogation using an “e-meter.” During “auditing,” Scientology’s form of counseling, a church member holds the sensors of the machine, which measures skin galvanism and is reflected in the motion of a needle indicator. Scientologists believe that the machine can actually read the “mass” of thoughts, and therefore it can tell when they are holding back information. In “sec-checking,” this process becomes more brutal as the questioner bores into the church member’s private life, trying to determine whether a subject is holding negative thoughts about Miscavige or the church itself.

In this recent video interview made by filmmaker Mark Bunker, former Scientologist Bruce Hines explains what happens in the “Truth Rundown.” It’s a process, he explains, that is intended to convince a subject that whatever unethical or bad behavior he witnessed was only a delusional product of his own evil intentions. In other words, Leah Remini would have been under intense pressure to confess that it was her own evil intent which caused her to say something negative about David Miscavige.