Family and Faith: 30 Years After, Lear Remini Tells She Left Church of Scientology Because of Her Daughter

Leah Remini after 30 years of leaving Scientology church tells the world why she left. She said that she was afraid of disconnection from her daughter Sofia.

Scientology was founded by sci-fi writer L Ron Hubbard and counts John Travolta, Will Smith, Juliette Lewis and Tom Cruise among its many prominent followers.

She told that the church simply was everything

"I decided I didn't want to raise my daughter in the Church because from what I've experienced and what I saw, the church becomes your everything,” she said. “It becomes your mother, your father, your everything.

“If you are raised in it as a child, you really don’t have loyalty to your family. The Church does come first to you.”


She also told about the consequences of leaving the church in which virtually everything she did was seen as bad because the church made appear as such.

Remini, the King of Queens actress was not the only actress that left Scientology, others such as Carmen Llywelyn left also.