Woah! After leaving the Church of Scientology in July 2013, actress and former scientologist Leah Remini is suing the organization, and its second/current leader David Miscavige. In the suit, filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Remini claims she’s been subjected to stalking, harassment, defamation and emotional distress.
She adds that the church created “intentional malicious and fraudulent rumors via hundreds of Scientology-controlled and -coordinated social media accounts that exist solely to intimidate and spread misinformation” about her.
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On Wednesday (August 2), the ‘King of Queens‘ star took to her official account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and revealed that she filed a lawsuit after 17 years of alleged abuse. Also in her lengthy tweet, she dropped a link to a post on Substack, featuring her same message, plus a press release about her lawsuit.
Remini wrote, “After 17 years of harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and defamation, I am filing a lawsuit against Scientology and David Miscavige. While advocating for victims of Scientology has significantly impacted my life and career, Scientology’s final objective of silencing me has not been achieved. While this lawsuit is about what Scientology has done to me, I am one of thousands of targets of Scientology over the past seven decades. People who share what they’ve experienced in Scientology, and those who tell their stories and advocate for them, should be free to do so without fearing retaliation from a cult with tax exemption and billions in assets.”
The former Scientologist continued, “The press has a right to report about Scientology without facing a sophisticated intelligence operation from Scientology to destroy their personal lives and their careers. Law enforcement authorities have a right to investigate crimes in Scientology without fear that they will lose their jobs. Children, mothers, fathers, aunts, and uncles have a right to request welfare checks on their family members without fear of an operation activated against them by Scientology for doing so. Those in the entertainment business should have a right to tell jokes and stories without facing an operation from Scientology which uses its resources in Hollywood to destroy their lives and careers.”
She concluded by listing her objective, “With this lawsuit, I hope to protect the rights afforded to them and me by the Constitution of the United States to speak the truth and report the facts about Scientology without fear of vicious and vindictive retribution, of which most have no way to fight back.”
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After leaving the Church of Scientology in 2013, Remini would go on to host a documentary series from 2016 to 2019 called, ‘Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.’ In the show, the actress highlighted stories, similar to her own, of people who had left the church and were allegedly rejected by their families and friends, and later allegedly harassed by the church.
Since the news of Remini’s lawsuit and claims of defamation, harassment, etc., the Church of Scientology and its leader David Miscavige have not yet released any public statements.
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