18. Leah Remini

Grounded with Louis Theroux

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Covid-19 hasn’t gone away and, due to travel restrictions, neither has Louis Theroux. In the second outing of his podcast series, he tracks down more high-profile guests he’s been longing to talk to - a fascinating mix of the celebrated, the controversial and the mysterious. Emmy Award winning actor and TV presenter Leah Remini talks to Louis Theroux about life in the Church of Scientology and her reasons for leaving. Producer: Paul Kobrak Assistant Producers: Catherine Murnane and Molly Schneider

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello, can you see me now?
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Louis Thoreau and this is Grounded with Louis Thoreau.
0:16.0	My podcast series for Radio 4 in which I get to talk to all sorts of people I've been
0:20.6	itching to meet speaking to them remotely via the internet.
0:24.8	I'm Louis, I'm your host.
0:26.4	I know who you are, love, yes, welcome, welcome.
0:29.7	With everyone, guest, host and production team, each dialing in from their own homes.
0:34.6	The bearded man is Paul.
0:36.2	Hi Paul.
0:37.5	And Catherine in green.
0:39.0	Hi, how are you?
0:40.6	Today's guest is Lea Remini, actor, presenter, winner of two prime time Emmy Awards and for
0:46.9	30 years, a member of the controversial church of Scientology.
0:52.5	Before leaving in 2013 and becoming one of its fiercest critics.
0:56.4	It is recording my bell.
0:57.7	Yes.
0:58.7	Scientology, as you may or may not know, was created in the early 1950s by American sci-fi writer
1:05.4	El Ron Hubbard and numbers among its adherents, John Travolta and Tom Cruise.
1:10.9	I have a long time fascination with the subject of Scientology and in 2015 I made my own Scientology
1:16.6	documentary.
1:18.2	Among the church's hallmarks are its secrecy about aspects of its beliefs and its aggressive
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