Leah Remini is going in hard at Louis Farrakhan. The Scientology and the Aftermath host has responded directly to statements made by the Nation of Islam leader during a speech last year.
During his 2017 Savors' Day speech, Farrakhan publicly embraced late Scientology founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and the teachings of Dianetics, and he called out Remini for defecting from the Church of Scientology. Farrakhan also questioned others who have walked away from the controversial church, according to Yahoo Entertainment.
"What I ask Mrs. Remmy, or whatever her name is, she's going in hard," Farrakhan said of Remini last year. "She's hurt by something. When you walked away, where did you go? What did you do? How did you gain? And what did you lose?"
Leah Remini used her forum on her Emmy-winning A&E show to respond to Farrakhan's comments about her, reminding him that she was deep into the church for more than 30 years before she walked away from the organization in 2013.
"No one's trying to take Scientology down for reasons that are unwarranted. And once you were in Scientology for a good 35, 45 years, maybe then ask these kinds of questions. And you should ask these types of questions to the families who have been destroyed."
"When you go to sleep at night crying because you don't have your daughter, or your son, or your mom, or your children have never met your grandparents because they believe in Scientology more than family, that's when you can start questioning people, and why and how they have been hurt. And also, Mr. Farrakhan, the name is Leah Re-mi-ni. Remini."
