In an interview with Us Weekly, the actress — who has continued to talk out towards Scientology since her departure in July 2013 — mirrored on her journey within the years after she broke away from the controversial faith, and claimed that the group is “terrorizing” her and her household, together with her 20-year-old daughter Sofia.

“It is troublesome to say it is gotten simpler when I’ve a multimillion-dollar group terrorizing me and my household,” The King of Queens alum mentioned.

“I am hunted. My daughter is adopted,” added Remini, who shares Sofia with ex-husband Angelo Pagan. “There’s fixed surveillance.”

The Church of Scientology hit again at Remini’s claims, with a spokesperson giving a press release to Us Weekly.

“For years Ms. Remini has repeated advert nauseam unsupported and unfaithful allegations to monetize her hate marketing campaign towards the Church of Scientology,” the assertion started, with Us Weekly noting that it didn’t pay Remini for her cowl story.

“There has by no means existed a shred of proof to help, not to mention show, any of her outlandish claims,” the assertion continued. “Opposite to Ms. Remini’s representations, the Church has by no means dedicated or conspired to commit these crimes, and no proof exists to counsel in any other case. The Church isn’t ‘surveilling’ or doing something to Ms. Remini. Quite the opposite, she is harassing her former church.”

Remini made related claims in a lawsuit towards the Church of Scientology and its chief, David Miscavige, in August 2023. In the submitting, Remini accused the group and Miscavige of “psychological torture, defamation, surveillance, harassment, and intimidation” via “mob-style operations and assaults on her and different alleged victims and survivors of the Church of Scientology.”

“With this lawsuit, I hope to guard the rights afforded to them and me by the Structure of the USA to talk the reality and report the information about Scientology with out concern of vicious and vindictive retribution, of which most don’t have any method to combat again,” she mentioned on the time.

Us Weekly reported {that a} trial is ready for October.

Whereas opening up about her alleged expertise with Scientology throughout her a few years as a member of the faith — and within the almost 12 years since — Remini instructed Us Weekly that she wasn’t afraid to depart when she first broke away. She mentioned that later modified.

“I wasn’t [afraid] as a result of I didn’t notice what this group is able to. I am afraid now. They’ve over 200 Scientology entrance teams and social media accounts. The Church tells them, ‘Hey, create an X account and assault these folks,’” she claimed. “You’ll be able to go away, you simply can’t communicate out. You’ll be able to’t train your First Modification proper or go on an ex-member’s weblog and discuss with [others] who skilled abuse in Scientology. You may get an operation launched by OSA [Office of Special Affairs] to discredit you and destroy your life till you shut up.”

When requested if she’s nonetheless being “threatened” by Scientology, Remini mentioned, “They harass my underage daughter on-line. They’ve [used] a Scientology time period meaning to kill me [and] mainly to erase me from the face of the earth. While you discuss to a lawyer, they are saying, ‘It’ll value you extra to defend your self than to pay them off.’ And Scientology is aware of that.”

The Kevin Can Wait alum additionally claimed her daughter, Sofia, is “continually petrified.”

“I’ve to inform her on daily basis, ‘Ma’am, bear in mind,’” Remini mentioned. “She’s continually petrified that her telephone is being tapped. I needed to get her assist for that, and she or he’s OK; we acquired via a tough patch. It takes a toll.”

In response to Remini’s claims, a rep for Scientology instructed Us Weekly that “all allegations of harassment, break-ins and different salacious alleged conduct are false.”

Since she left the Church of Scientology in 2013, Remini has been very vocal in publicly denouncing Scientology, going as far as to pen a 2015 memoir, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, and host a collection wherein she investigated the Church of Scientology throughout 37 episodes. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath aired from 2016 to 2019.

Whereas subsequent month will mark 12 years since she parted methods with Scientology, she mentioned she “cannot” imagine it has been that a few years “as a result of I haven’t been capable of actually extract myself.”

“It hasn’t been as liberating as I would hoped,” she instructed Us Weekly. “[Still], I haven’t got a church dictating who I can communicate to, together with my family.”

Remini mentioned she protects herself by having a “prerequisite” earlier than she communicates with anybody

“It’s a must to violate Scientology’s excessive crime legal guidelines and publicly communicate out,” she defined. “For those who do not, I would like nothing to do with you as a result of I don’t imagine you left, and I believe you’re a plant. I [can’t] let any individual into my life or my daughter’s life who’s an informant for Scientology.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Remini shared her ideas on well-known and longtime Scientology members, together with Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

When requested why she believes the 2 actors have scaled again on discussing the group publicly lately, she claimed, “As a result of they’re being uncovered for what they really imagine in and realized, ‘We higher shut up, or we’re not going to have careers.’ However that does not imply that they aren’t in settlement with its insurance policies.”

Remini added that she’s unsure Cruise or Travolta will ever break free from Scientology.

“I used to hope loads of these folks would, however now I really feel like they want Scientology,” she mentioned. “I do not know in the event that they’d make it in the true world.”

After Scientology shut down the allegations Remini made in her Us Weekly cowl story, Remini shared one other assertion with the outlet, wherein she emphasised her claims.

“Scientology insists it doesn’t stalk, harass, and terrorize folks. However there are over seven many years of documented instances of retaliation, intimidation [and] surveillance….,” she mentioned. “Examples of those operations can simply be present in documentaries like HBO’s Going Clear and the three seasons of my A&E collection Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.”

“I communicate for… people who’ve been stalked, harassed [and] threatened… by Scientology for daring to talk the reality, file police experiences, or search justice,” she continued. “These of us who perceive this group know it isn’t a [genuine] faith and doesn’t deserve an equal voice.”

Remini added, “I’m being pressured to carry this multi-billion-dollar group to civil court docket as a result of the governments that ought to shield folks like me — those that go away, those that communicate out, those that search justice — have did not act. They have been intimidated, misled, or corrupted. However I refuse to be. And I refuse to let this proceed in silence.”