Actress Leah Remini announced she is filing a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader David Miscavige Wednesday.
In a statement posted to her accounts on Substack and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Remini said she is filing the lawsuit in the California Superior Court because of \u201charassment, intimidation, surveillance and defamation\u201d she said she faced at the hands of Scientology for 17 years. She said the organization has attempted to \u201csilence\u201d her and many others who have spoken against it.
\u201cWhile this lawsuit is about what Scientology has done to me, I am one of thousands of targets of Scientology over the past seven decades,\u201d Remini said in her statement. \u201cPeople who share what they\u2019ve 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.\u201d
Remini has an extensive past of speaking out against Scientology, of which she was once a member. She released a book in 2015, \u201cTroublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology,\u201d and worked on a television show from 2016-2019, \u201cLeah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,\u201d \u2014 both critical of the religion.
\u201cWith 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,\u201d Remini continued in her statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n