Leah Remini left the Church of Scientology two years ago, but she is still dealing with all of the emotions that come with leaving a religion you spent your entire life believing in.
In a new preview for the second season of her TLC reality show "Leah Remini: It's All Relative," which premiered last night, the 45-year-old actress sits among some other former Scientologists as they discuss all the complications that come with the decision to leave, according to People. Basically, when you decide to leave, if you "make a stink in the public world," they consider you a "suppressive person" and see you as a bad person. They tell all your family and friends that they must "disconnect" from you because you are this "suppressive person."
After giving birth to her daughter Sofia in 2004, Remini's decision to leave her lifelong religion became a major concern. "I decided I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I've experienced and what I saw, the church becomes your everything," she explains in the clip. "It becomes your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church."
If her and her daughter remained a part of Scientology, and one day her daughter decided to leave the Church, then Leah would have to cut ties from her own daughter. "If you're raised in it as a child, you really don't have loyalty to your family," she explained.
Leah has also revealed that she is now in therapy because of the "hard repercussions" that come with leaving. "I decided that it'd be a good thing for me to start therapy because we all go through things in our lives," she said. "And with leaving the Church of Scientology, you know, there's a lot of feelings, and I really didn't have an outlet for that. Now I have somebody to talk to who could prescribe drugs...I joke!"
She tries to get her entire family, especially her mother, Vicki Marshall, who also left the Church, to try and go to therapy as well to deal with their emotions. Before her reality show started last year, she told Ellen DeGeneres that leaving the religion had actually brought her family closer, according to Us Weekly. "We're leaning new ways to reconnect with each other," she said.
When it comes to what the church has to say about this, they aren't as understanding. "It comes as no surprise that someone as self-absorbed as Leah Remini continues to rewrite history and exploit her former religion in a pathetic attempt to get ratings for her cable show and seem relevant again," the church told People.
Watch the full clip below and catch Leah and her family on their journey after Scientology in "Leah Remini: It's All Relative" on TLC Wednesday's at 9 p.m.
