EX-SCIENTOLOGIST Leah Remini believes Tom Cruise could ‘end Scientology’.
Remini appeared on Bill Maher’s US TV show to speak about her documentary series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
Both Remini and Maher agreed that Cruise wields unrivalled influence in the organisation’s success and could be the one to end it.
“He could end this single-handedly,” Maher suggested on Real Time With Bill Maher.
Remini agreed, adding: “Yes, because he is single-handedly clearing the planet most Scientologists believe”.
“Clearing the planet?”, Maher interjected. “He couldn’t even make Jack Reacher a hit.”
The actor, whose TV series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath documents the experiences of people who have left the organisation, often at great personal cost, credited Maher’s 2008 anti-religion documentary Religulous with planting some doubt, though she didn’t realise it at the time, New York Post reports.
“When the history of Scientology is finally written,” Maher said, “it will show that fate chose you to come on in Act Five. You’re like Reagan and ‘tear down that wall’.”
“I watched it because I was a troublemaker, apparently, always, but I wasn’t even at the level of what you were revealing in your documentary,” Remini said.
“So you seemed a little crazy to me.”
