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September 9, 2016
Alex Weresow
Executive Producer
Slauson Productions, LLC
Culver City, CA 90230
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Re: Leah Remini
Dear Mr, Weresow
‘This letter addresses the anti-Scientologist host of your program. Ms. Remini is
not capable of being objective about the Scientology religion as she has previously
demonstrated,
‘A program about our religion hosted by Ms. Remini is doomed to be a cheap
reality TV show by a has-been actress now a decade removed from the peak of her
career. Unable to move on with her life, Ms. Remini has made a cottage industry
out of whining both about her former religion that expelled her as well as her
former friends she alienated with her unending bitterness and seething anger
Rather than letting go, Ms. Remini has doubled down on her obsessive hatred,
turning into the obnoxious, spiteful ex-Scientologist she once vowed she would
never become.
Moreover, Ms, Remini is a hypocrite. She disingenuously preaches “erting go,”
“those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace,” “Less hate more dove”
and “if you are depressed, you are living in the past.” Yet it's Ms. Remini who
lives in the past, spreading hate and resentment while refusing to “let go.”
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She also has redefined herself by the company she keeps. For someone who claims
to be a feminist supporting the rights of women, she inexplicably embraces and
features on your show the likes of Ron Miscavige, who admitted beating his late
‘once a month for a decade, as well as two other vicious wife beaters in Mike
\der and Tom DeVocht. She preaches “ess hate, more love,” yet showcases an
angry, mean individual in Marc Headley. His own mother will tell you he once
{ried to drown her. That's because Ms. Remini tosses out her principles if she
smells a buck. Since 2013, she has shamelessly exploited her former affiliation
with the Church of Scientology as a primary income source.
AETN viewers should know the duplicity at work when Ms. Remini stage
‘managed her departure from the Church of Scientology. For six months before she
‘was expelled, Ms. Remini voluntarily participated in the Church's ecclesiastical
ethics and justice procedures due to her ethical lapses. She did so because she
‘wanted to stay in the Church. But her transgressions were so egregious she was
expelled, which remains the source of her bitterness today. Knowing she was on
the verge of being kicked out, Ms. Remini choreographed her departure to get
attention and publicity.
Following her initial flurry of press coverage, Ms. Remini desperately sought more
fame and attention by filing a fraudulent missing person report with the Los
‘Angeles Police Department about the wife of the leader of the religion. It was part
of a harassment campaign cooked up with Mike Rinder in tandem with Mare and
Claire Headley and shamelessly promoted by Tony Ortega. Ms. Remini used an
acquaintance of hers in the LAPD to personally file the report, which she quickly
leaked to the media. But it all blew up in her face when the LAPD took the
extraordinary step of thoroughly debunking to the media Ms. Remini’s absurd
claim within hours, calling it “unfounded.” Ms. Remini wasted valuable public
resources in an attempt to viciously harass the Church leader's wife, whom Ms.
Remini has obsessively stalked.
In her autobiography, Ms. Remini made the mind-boggling admission that she filed
her false police report so that she would be expelled from the Church “and that
would be the end.” The irony is that by the time Ms. Remini filed the report, she
was already expelled. Ms. Remini was dishonest in her book, failing to disclose
that the friend in the police department she filed it with had moonlighted as her
personal security on one of her television shows and was trying to break into the
personal security business. That the Los Angeles Police Department was able to
dispose of Ms. Remini’s publicity stunt so quickly is not surprising.Slauson Productions 3 September 9, 2016
Ms. Remini’s anti-Scientology antics also have inflamed acts of religious hate.
Take Erin McMurtry, who on December 14, 2015, drove her car through the front of
the Church of Scientology of Austin, Texas. McMurtry plowed across the lobby
before coming to a stop in front of the nursery, which only hours before had been
filled with children. Before McMurtry committed her crime, she had posted on her
Facebook page praises for Ms. Remini and Ms. Remini's anti-Scientology rhetoric,
with such statements as:
“EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!IHIIL This is the most crucial thing I have
ever posted!!! .. It is called Scientology! ... ‘Thank you many times over to
Leah Remini.”
“I'm pissed that Scientology...even exists”
“F—k them!
“Shut them down...(NON-negotiable)”
McMurtry had no prior experience with the Church. She had never been a member.
Thus, itis hard to miss the connection as the lies being fed to the press by Ms.
Remini pushed McMurtry further and further over the edge, to the point where she
smashed her car through the front doors in Austin. It was a miracle that no one was
injured and only a stroke of luck the nursery, where McMurtry stopped before
backing out again, was empty. McMurtry was arrested and has since been charged
by authorities.
In another incident, Ms. Remini’s support of wife beater Ron Miscavige and another
apostate Lois Reisdorf, an expelled Scientologist who had been spouting hate speech
on various anti-Scientology websites, coincided with a hate crime and death threat by
Reisdorf's son,
Brandon Reisdorf drove to the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles, got out of his
car and threw a hammer through a window. He then retrieved the hammer, threw it
again a second time even more forcefully and drove off. The car he escaped in was
registered to his mother, Lois. Brandon also sent threatening emails to Scientologists.
‘And according to a Tarasoff Reporting Form, issued by Brandon’s psychiatric care
providers, “Brandon Reisdorf has been threatening to harm Mr. [David] Miscavige.”
Reisdorf was subsequently arrested by the Los Angeles police and is awaiting trial.Slauson Productions 4 September 9, 2016
‘Then there was Andre Barkanov, a 48-year-old Chicago resident with a long
criminal history. On July 21 and July 23 in 2015, Barkanov made nine telephone
calls in which he made death threats naming individual Scientologists and the
leader of the religion as his targets. The LAPD tracked him down and extradited
him to Los Angeles, where he pleaded guilty to hate crimes. He served jail time
and is now on probation with a 10-year court order to stay away from the Church,
When asked what direct knowledge he had of his “targets,” Barkanov admitted he
had no personal knowledge of the Church. When asked what incited him to
threaten these people he cited recent media reports, including those about
“the King and Queens lady; she just left the Church” (i.e., Ms. Remini).
‘The entire premise of Ms. Remini’s project with Slauson is inherently dishonest.
Slauson describes this project as being substantially about “the issue of the
disconnection policy of the Church.” The practice of Scientologists voluntarily
severing communication from people who are inimical to their wellbeing is
fundamentally no different than the practices of virtually all major faith traditions,
‘as well as common sense. Consider the sentiments expressed by Danielle Koepke,
author and founder of the Internal Acceptance Movement, who wrote:
You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your
life. it doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest,
employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance—you don't have to make
room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It's one thing if
@ person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a
person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries and “continues”
to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go—Danielle Koepke.
Ms. Remini quotes these same sentiments on her Twitter account: “Love this. Wishing
‘you a toxic free weekend ;) iletitgo.” So while supposedly denouncing the practice out
of one side of her mouth, she openly advocates it out of the other. All the family
‘members and associates we have spoken to of each one of Ms. Remini's co-apostates
partaking in her show, including those who were associated with Ms. Remini herself,
describe these people to a one as a toxic personality.
In short, Ms. Remini has become what she once declared she never wanted to be
known as: “this bitter ex-Scientologist.” As USA Today wrote, Ms. Remini is “as
famous for being an ex-Scientologist as she is as an actress.” She needs to move on
with her life instead of pathetically exploiting her former religion, her former
friends and other celebrities for money and attention (o appear relevant again.Slavson Productions 5 September 9,2016
Sadly, bittemess and anger are common threads through Ms, Remini’s life.
Ms. Remini is showing herself to be a spoiled entitled diva who still obsessively,
complains about such peity matters as her seating placement, limo rides, five-star
hotel accommodations and the paparazzi’s failure to recognize her nearly a decade
ago. She also inserts herself uninvited into the family matters of others. Rather
than take responsibility for self-inflicted problems, she is quick to blame others,
When her firing from The Talk erupted into a public embarrassment in 2012, we
tried to help pick her up off the floor. But she teated everyone around her in a
degrading, bullying manner. Her behavior was intolerable.
Ms. Remini knows the truth she conveniently rewrites in her revisionist history.
The real story again is that she desperately tried 10 remain a Scientologist in 2013,
knowing full well she was on the verge of being expelled for refusing to abide by
the high level of ethies and decency Scientologists are expected to maintain. Her
repeated ethical lapses and callous treatment of others led to an ecclesiastical
review which resulted in her being expelled.
Prior to that, the Church worked hard to help Ms, Remini try to be a good person,
In 1998, Ms. Remini said, “without it [the Church] I'd be in the dumps and F would
probably be an animal, Ewould be a horrible, horrible person.”
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In 2001 she said, “/ don’t get along with others and there is so many things that
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Scientology. 1 don't think Ud have the success that I have without Scientology. 1
wouldir't be the girlfriend that tam, the daughter that Lam, the sister that 1am,
because this is all because of Scientology and what Scientology has taught me.”
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In 2002 Ms. Remini said, “What Scientology has helped me with is confidence.
Z've had samewhere 10 go t0 tell someone my fears and I wasn't crazy, you know,
that I could actually do something about those fears, thar I could actually be in
control of my own feetings, that I could actually be in control of my own career,
and that's what Scientology has helped me with. And 1 think it's important for an
artist ro have some outlet other than your mom who is like ‘Ah, just shut up and go
on another audition,’ You know, you need sone other help and it’s offered me that
help.”Sanson Productions 6 September 9, 2016
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In 2003 she said, “P didn't want to follow the crowd of people, tike the bad people
but 1 also wanted 10 be a cool person so Twas like kind of struggling with the two
personalities but being a Scientologist vou're getting in touch with the person that
you really are and we really are good people ... so I've avoided all that by being a
Scientologist and by having integrity and by living by certain moral codes that this
group abides by, 1 can took at myself in the mirro
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In 2007 she said, “You start every day talking about something that 1 believe in
‘and you start being disrespectful to my religion, to me you've crossed the line, But
that’s on any religion. 1 wouldn't be disrespectfial to any of my friends" religion, Or
think that they should put up with that. H's just disrespectful.”
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And she said, “I've met a lot of people who were ex-Seientologisis. They usuaily
don's, they usually don't say anything 10 me. Just as I wouldn't say anything about
their religion, or whatever they are doing. You know, Lwish them the best. You
know, [vant them to live a good life. In not going ta sit and name cail and—you
know if it's not for vou it’s not for you! You know what Fmean? I'm not going 10 go
off-—if | go get a bad facial am I going to spend the rest of the day going, you
know, ‘This salon over here isn't..." you know? Emean it’s just like, it’s just a
waste of tine. Just go on with your life. I get scared af people who run around
making this their, their mission in life. Its like, please. It's, it's erazy, but it's
insane. There's so many things to be doing in life rather than running after people
who are doing good!” hitp://www.scientologynews.org/statements/abe-
scientologists.htn
After Ms. Remini was no longer able to keep herself in check, she became the
hypocrite she is. She now regurgitates the tired myths the Church has repeatedly
debunked, circulated by the same tiny clique of expelled former staffers bitter at
having lost the positions they enjoyed before their malfeasance and unethical
conduct were uncovered. Ms. Remini is now joined at the hip with this cotlection
of deadbeats, admitted liars, sell-admitted perjurers, wife beaters and worse,Slauson Productions 7 ‘September 9, 2016
If your “Untitled Documentary Project” is honest, it should be renamed “Leah
Remini: Desperate for Attention and Money.”
Regards,
Karip/Pouw
Enclosures:
1, Excerpt from Erin McMurtry Facebook page
2. Articles conceming Erin McMurtry crashing into the Austin Church of
Scientology
3. Affidavit for Warrant of Arrest and Detention on Erin McMurtry,
4, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Arrest Record on Brandon Reisdorf
5. Criminal Protective Order on Brandon Reisdorf
6. Criminal Protective Order on Andre Barkanov
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