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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 []

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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 []

David Miscavige is gambling on Birmingham for Scientology success, and who knows why

 Rod Keller continues to keep us up to date on Scientology’s “Ideal Org” program, as David Miscavige pushes to open a number of new facilities one right after the []

Coming to grips with Scientology’s most vile secret, which was hiding in plain sight

 About two years ago, a reader first made us aware of a shocking passage in L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics that somehow seems to have been overlooked by generations of commenters on that important volume, the very basis for what became the Church of []

After pausing to reflect, Marie Poulin 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 []

‘Miss Lovely’ as you’ve never seen her — new photos of Paulette Cooper, war survivor

[Previously the earliest known photo of Paulette Cooper and her older sister Suzy Bucholc]

One of the most rewarding experiences we ever had as a Scientology watcher started out in a Manhattan eatery and a simple []

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. []

BLOCKBUSTER EXCLUSIVE: It turns out the National Enquirer is blowing smoke again

 Scientology Watchers were naturally curious to see the National Enquirer go all-in this week with one of its screaming covers about the church and its celebrities, which naturally kicked up a lot of talk at the usual online gathering places. What did the newspaper mean by files being seized by the feds? And why hadn’t []