Drama Behind Scientology Exit: Katie Holmes And Kirstie Alley Wrote ‘Reports’ About Leah Remini To Church, Sister Claims
July 18 2013, Published 12:05 p.m. ET
The drama behind King of Queens star Leah Remini’s defection from Scientology after 37 years has grown more intense, with Leah’s sister Nicole claiming that both Katie Holmes and Kirstie Alley wrote reports to the church about the star.
Nicole, a former Scientologist, has dropped a series of bombshells about why Leah decided to leave the church, as Breaking Celebrity News has reported.
In a new interview she claims that both Holmes and Alley wrote ‘knowledge reports’ to the church about Remini’s behavior – behavior that the church viewed as negative.
The bizarre events behind the scenes at Scientology, filled with A-list star power, are now being described by former members for the first time.
Remini encountered trouble at Tom Cruise’s wedding to Holmes in 2006 when she tried to help her friend Jennifer Lopez change her seating assignment.
In a new interview Nicole told former Village Voice editor Tony Ortega that Lopez asked Leah to see if she could help get her seat changed.
“She wanted to sit with Leah, and so Leah went to make it happen,” Nicole said. But a Hollywood publicist “took exception to Leah’s request and complained to Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise that Leah was causing a scene,” Ortega writes that Nicole told him.
“Later, Leah asked other people at the event if she had caused a scene and they said she hadn’t, Nicole says.”
Nicole says Leah told a Scientologist friend what happened and the friend submitted a report to the church, taking Leah’s side.
That led to four people – including Holmes – writing ‘knowledge reports’ to the church about Leah and the “incident,” claims Nicole.
“They wrote that Leah was an embarrassment to Scientology,” Nicole says. “They said she ruined the wedding. All she did was ask to change her seat.”
Nicole has previously claimed that Leah’s questioning of why church leader David Miscavige’s wife was not at the wedding and is rarely seen in public also caused the church to come down on her.
When Leah returned from the wedding in Italy the church told her to go to Scientology’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, Nicole told Ortega, adding Leah thought she would be moving up on the ladder that is part of the religion.
But far from spiritual enlightenment, Leah was put on “a brut