Leah Remini takes at least one big shot at Tom Cruise in an upcoming interview with “20/20” about her leaving Scientology.
ABC has released a clip of the interview, which is scheduled to air Oct. 30.
“The decision to leave is you’re giving up everything you’ve worked for your whole life,” she says, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life and I want them to understand how it happens. And so as time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world.”
I’m assuming Leah Remini has a panic room and a fall-back career in place.
The former “King of Queens” actress talks about how she and her family joined the religion when she was a child, and why she decided to leave in 2013 after 30 years. She has said the main reason she left was because she didn’t want to raise her daughter as a Scientologist, and specifically refers to the “Mission Impossible” actor.
“The mindset becomes us against them,” she says. “Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself … you are evil.”
You also get letters from his lawyers. At least that’s what I’ve heard …
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