Sara McGinnis
posted in CelebritiesLeah Remini's Scientology tell-all includes a story that, as a parent, is hard to read.
Opening up about former husband and wife Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the actress details the first time she met the pair. Reporting on the excerpt from Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, the New York Daily News shares this:
“At first it’s very effusive, it’s very very loving. You get the laser in on you and you’re the most important thing that ever happened,” she said of her first impressions of Cruise. She recalled a memory she had of meeting both Cruise and Katie Holmes at the actor’s home one evening. Remini received a call from a church official that said Cruise wanted her to come over and teach him salsa dancing. Two high-ranking Scientology officials were there with the actor at his home and so was his new girlfriend, Holmes, when Remini arrived. “He was forcibly kissing Katie. I said, ‘hey, get a freaking’ room.’ I was written up for that and I had to go into session for it.”
The uncomfortable incident was nothing compared to what Leah Remini, who is the mother of one herself, later witnessed.
"The wails of a 7-month-old infant echoed through the celebrity-studded dinner preceding the marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. It was their daughter, Suri — but neither the baby’s mom nor the other guests showed concern. And then, writes actress Leah Remini in her new Scientology tell-all, things turned weird.
Remini, after five long minutes, followed the sound of the crying baby to a bathroom where three women stood staring at the infant left lying on the floor. The enraptured trio, including Cruise’s sister and his assistant, were gaping at the hungry child as if she was 'L. Ron Hubbard incarnate' — Version 2.0 of the late Scientology founder."
From what I gather, Scientologists consider children to be reincarnated adults in tiny bodies, and don't believe they need the kind of coddling we typically give.
As a complete outsider I have no idea what to make of Scientology as a whole, or Leah's stories. My gut doesn't say she's lying, but is it possible the truth is somewhere in the middle? After all, it's not uncommon for parents to use the cry-it-out method for sleep training. Still, it's heartbreaking (and a bit eerie) to read Leah's account.
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