LEAH REMINI’S FIGHT AGAINST SCIENTOLOGY ‘I AM NOT AFRAID’
Leah Remini’s daughter Sofia is 13—the age Remini was when her own life changed forever. It’s a fact Remini thinks about often. “When I was her age, thinking about what I was doing—she’s very lucky,” says the King of Queens star, who was an eighth grader when her family moved to Clearwater, Fla., to join Sea Org, Scientology’s clergy-like order for its most dedicated members. “She doesn’t know what it means to get up and start working from 7 in the morning to 10 at night with virtually no schooling. It’s very difficult to hear your child say ‘I hate my school’ when things get rough. I’m like, ‘I wish I had a school.’”
Remini, 47, left the Church of Scientology four years ago—and has since become one of its most vocal critics. (The church has denounced her as a liar and publicity seeker and said her account of
