July 2013 | The Underground Bunker

Nicole Remini: John Travolta Has NOT Called Leah, Despite National Enquirer Unnamed Source

Last week, Leah Remini’s sister Nicole had to call bullshit on an unnamed source who told the Chicago Sun-Times that Leah and Kirstie Alley were “chatting” to make sure there was no “loss of friendship” between the two. Didn’t happen, Nicole told us.

Now, the National Enquirer is saying it talked to an unnamed source who […]

Scientology Continues to “Handle” the “Black PR” of Leah Remini’s Defection

Scientology continues to “handle” the defection of Leah Remini and the subsequent media uproar. We have now learned that the church has produced a video about the controversy, and is asking Scientologists in the Los Angeles area to come to local facilities to view it and learn how to think about “Black PR” — Scientology […]

Claire Headley: Scientology’s Own Rules Prove That it Uses “Disconnection” To Split Up Families

Claire Headley is taking us on our journey to train as Scientologists. She and her husband Marc were Sea Org workers who escaped from Scientology’s International Base in 2005. She spent years working with Scientology’s “tech,” and was trusted to oversee the auditing of Tom Cruise. Go here to see the first part in this […]

DISCONNECTION: A Double Dose of Scientology’s Toxic Use of “Leverage”

Lori Hodgson

Leah Remini’s defection from Scientology put into stark relief one of the church’s most toxic policies: Disconnection. Because Remini and her family dared to walk away, their longtime Scientology friends were told to cut off ties with them as quickly as possible.

The church put out a statement, denying that its members are […]

Neil Gaiman’s Nephew Fights for Scientology Marriage Rights in the UK

We’ve been getting a lot of mail from readers about an interesting legal case happening in London. We first mentioned it last December, and now it’s reached a fascinating stage: The UK’s highest court is having a hard time deciding whether or not Scientology’s churches are “places of worship.”

Before you assume that this is a […]

Perez Hilton Has Poor Reading Skills: Here’s a Leah Remini Primer for the Word-Challenged

Oh, Perez. You look fabulous after all that weight loss. But you just have no reading comprehension, apparently.

We say that because we’ve just watched Perez mangle the Leah Remini story out of all recognition, and the thing is, he’s obviously getting nearly every one of his “facts” from stories we published earlier this week.

Perez, for […]

Leah Remini’s Friend, TV’s Michelle Visage, Says Scientologists Are “Scattering Like Roaches”

Two years ago, Michelle Visage was a longtime talk radio host in Los Angeles when she was presented with a tantalizing opportunity. RuPaul wanted her to be a judge on the third season of his VH1 show, RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Visage says she knew it would be great for her career. But she worried that […]

STACY DAWN MURPHY: One Year After Her Death, Still No Answers

March 12, 1992 — July 19, […]

LEAH REMINI’S SISTER NICOLE: How We Got Into Scientology, And How Leah Got Out

Nicole Remini [Photo by Joe Dickie]

Nicole Remini sounds irritated when we ask her about a report in the Chicago Sun-Times yesterday that claimed her sister, King of Queens actress Leah Remini, had “chatted” with Kirstie Alley to make sure there was no “loss of friendship” between the two over the explosion in news […]

Scientology Claims No Forced “Disconnection” — So Tell Us About Yours

The last time Scientology denied forced disconnection — with Tommy Davis on CNN in 2008 — it backfired badly

Scientology is spinning as madly as it can.

Today, in order to deal with an avalanche of bad news about Leah Remini’s defection, the Church of Scientology put out a statement denying that it forces members […]

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