September 24, 2015

Joanna Robinson
Vanity Fair
Via Email

Dear Joanna,

Thank you for asking us for a statement and giving us the opportunity to respond. Here is the Church’s statement:

Leah Remini has said “I don’t want to be known as a bitter, ex-Scientologist,” but that is exactly how she has defined herself for the last 2 years. In her pathetic quest to get publicity and seem relevant, she continually invokes Scientology. Her harassment has included wasting the valuable time of the Los Angeles Police Department as well as taxpayer funds by filing an irresponsible “missing persons” report as part of a stunt that was definitively debunked by the LAPD as unfounded within hours of her sending the department on a wild goose chase. Her LAPD report was disingenuous and dishonest, just like her spin to the press about the events leading up to her expulsion in which she never reveals the ethical lapses that caused it or how hard she fought to stay in the Church. Ms. Remini needs to move on with life and stop obsessively blaming others for her problems, be it her former religion or those she has worked with professionally.

Regards,

Karin Pouw