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Tonight on ‘Aftermath’: How Leah Remini’s friends in Scientology put her to the test

[Sherry Ollins]

If you remember Leah Remini’s reality show It’s All Relative, you may remember one of the rare moments when she brought up the subject of Scientology. In one episode, she brought on three of her friends who were also former Scientologists, and we interviewed one of them, Chantal []

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Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: The business of Scientology, and the pitfalls of suing it

 Tonight, at 10 pm A&E airs the second “special” episode in the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, an episode which tries to come to grips with Scientology’s rapacious business model and how people get caught up in []

Wally Hanks, Scientology ranch terror recently portrayed on ‘Leah Remini,’ dies at 70

 Wally Hanks, the employee at the 1990s Scientologist-run Mace-Kingsley Ranch in New Mexico who was heard terrorizing a child on an audio tape played back for an episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath that aired on October 10, died Friday night at a hospital in Southern California. He was 70 years []

Scientology slut-shames Mimi Faust after destroying her family because … it’s a church!

 Continuing its unbroken record for doing exactly the wrong thing every time its reputation is in question, Scientology responded to this week’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath in characteristic fashion with an overheated slut-shaming of reality TV star Mimi Faust, and by calling Christi Gordon []

On tonight’s ‘Leah Remini,’ reality star Mimi Faust takes on Scientology’s harm to family

 In 2012, we talked to Mimi Faust for the Village Voice after she had dropped a bombshell on VH1’s popular show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. At 13, Mimi had been abandoned by her mother, who chose Scientology’s Sea Organization over raising her own daughter. Mimi then became []

Crashing a ‘Mace-Kingsley’ event in Pasadena to get some answers about Scientology and kids

[Saddest bookstore ever at the Pasadena org, selling only one author]

Marcy Sargeant of the Mace-Kingsley Family Center in Clearwater, Florida, held a seminar at Scientology’s Pasadena “Ideal Org” on []

After pausing to reflect, Marie Bilheimer takes on Scientology’s attack of her ‘Leah Remini’ spot

 Every week when there’s a new episode of A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, we look to see how the Church of Scientology is going to react on its website dedicated to attacking Leah and the people who show up as her []

Tara and Nathan — subjects of last night’s ‘Leah Remini’ — respond to Scientology’s smears

[Scientology apparently thinks this photo makes Nathan Rich look bad]

Right on schedule, the Church of Scientology posted a new page attacking Leah Remini’s guests just before her newest episode of Scientology and the Aftermath aired last night on the A&E []

Here’s how Scientology tried to keep you from seeing tonight’s episode of ‘Leah Remini’

[Tara Reile]

“My uncle told me that if I were to allow the episode to air, I would personally be responsible for millions of deaths. He said the people who watch it will walk right into the hands of the psychs,” Tara Reile told us yesterday. []

Rerun Tuesday: ‘Leah Remini’ participants tell us what the series has meant to them

 We have another week to get through before new episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath start running again. So we thought we’d tide you over on another rerun Tuesday with a special []