Leah Remini on the Cult of Scientology | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

speaking of religion I must break away here we have the very special guest I wanted to have her on for a long time she's an actress and the creator and host today in East Scientology in the aftermath please welcome Leah Remini [Applause] [Music] [Applause] let me try to calm down from the panel take a moment you need some water no I do but reaming and arguing to be with someone who I admire greatly because I've been watching your show and I am telling you I could admirer of what you are doing okay and you know I think when when the history of Scientology is finally written it's going to show that you know you had a faith chose you thank you to come in like in act 5 right you're like you're like Reagan with you know tear down that wall thank you and you know we had going clear yes documentary on our network yeah it's awesome yes it started to break the wall down exactly like what you are doing is putting a human face on the people who suffer from this awful cult thank you I really appreciate that and you're right it's about families right it's about families but it's about the damage that it does to people as individuals I mean we're all still kind of managing who we are from being in a cult it's it's not an easy thing which you've every right child I mean I was a child and most people are who get in because it really wasn't a religion I used that weasely of its time right um so I I think they're going to be hard-pressed to find new members however I I felt a responsibility because as somebody who was a Scientologist for over 35 years you know what they disseminate was that we were responsible for mankind and so there was an annulment yes we but read that what you were helping we thought we were helping and that's why it's hard to come out I'm in a tough position because on one hand I'm attacking this cult and at the same time I know that the people who are still in are under this dispell of doing good for the world because that's what the the organ is what I'm not a great thing that came out on your show that really explained a lot to me about how otherwise intelligent people who I knew some of them be in this cult I mean I would say any religion but especially this one and you really put this out there that what it is is you're audited if they're always questioning you what did you do what did you see Franco it just doesn't pay to look on the internet because you know you're going to have to answer that question in an audit that you just don't look well you just don't know somebody told me the first time you found out some about Scientology was when you saw my movie Religulous exactly so I want well forever well first of all I wasn't allowed with Scientologists aren't allowed to look at things like this we're not allowed to look or listen to people who are critics of Scientology so I I watched it because I was a troublemaker apparently always and I watched it now I wasn't at the level that you were just what you were revealing in your documentary I wasn't even at that level yet so you seemed a little crazy to me because I didn't know what you were saying was true something like that shit's crazy right but then as you get to the upper levels and now I want you to know that it's confidential so a lot of people don't even reach this confidential level in Scientology and you're like Bill Maher's got the real right right oh you are technically correct in the way you said it and I should tell you you know and this is uh this is just a I want to say this to the press and people who talked about Scientology is you should always talk to somebody who was in because if you don't get the nomenclature 100% correct we have a way of just kind of discrediting you from the if you're not using it correctly so you didn't say exactly but you're on the right track okay I didn't but but you don't know this until three hundred thousand dollars later and then you're really another great thing I learned from you show you and if you said it always sticks with me you said when you go to a Scientology event and you look in the parking lot every one of the cars is a cheap shitty old car right because Scientology sucks all the money all right all of this correct my mother's laughing because she's in the audience and she's only one of the nice cars I bought it for her but that that is I mean it reminded me a lot of communism yeah because like communism first of all you're poor they take all your money yeah and also the snitching on each other crap everybody's watching each other I mean again this is the great thing about your show it shows disconnecting if people that they ask you to disconnect from your own family they don't escape leave against each other yes they don't ask you it's a requirement right and and they the church thinks they're they have outsmarted the press because it is incorrect to say that across all boards you have to disconnect from anyone who talks about Scientology the truth of the matter is the policies because everything is run by policy in Scientology there's no room for assimilation there's no what did you think what did you get from that you know Idris what the does it say and if you don't understand it you know do a clay demo of it and you get checked out on policies like what is the word and mean and you need to know 25 definitions of the word and and its derivations so you so yes so it's it's almost it is exactly thought my love was but yeah exactly yeah so yeah well you are law you got nothing on her science already already correct about that but the UH the the the problem there is that we're self brainwashing which a cult accident actually told us that Cephas on in our last special and I didn't realize that because we are required to study two and a half hours a day daily like minimum minimum so we are looking at the words we are being checked out on on the policies but even like I know they're big on celebrities even Oracle liberties have to do this yet only Tom Cruise does this yes yes not only does Tom Cruise do exactly that now it now I don't want you to get the idea that he's not that certain policies are not being bent for him because they are and that is the truth and that was part of the hypocrisy he could end this he didn't a single handedly crack he is the one for crack and and because and because they're saying that he single-handed is clearing a planet is changing the planet so most Scientologists believe a planet he couldn't even make jack reacher ahead well Scientologists believe that he did ok Scientology and Scientologists believe that if he didn't make it a hit it was because they were suppressive evil people working against him because he's winning in life and he's clearing the planet so we're just going to be in ten years I mean III think you really are playing a very key part and just it's about to fall and then I think we're you know I hope so I mean I hope so because it's not something yes and it's not something to make fun of it's not something because actually people are going to hurt but you can make fun of it but but I also want you to be the player on your show who I'll be X Scientology yeah see it's like wow I didn't know there was a real world I want to play the Louie Armstrong song for them what a wonderful world you know you know you know I can breathe and you know what that you know sure we don't we don't know this world you know so you're absolutely right and that's what I want to celebrate it but these people keep doing survivor so thank you you're doing God's work [Applause]

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

Views: 2,855,397

Keywords: Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart News, Dangerous, Leah Remini, A&E, Scientology and the Aftermath, Jack Kingston, Republican, Georgia, Malcolm Nance, Larry Wilmore (Comedian)

Id: YxvPtWAymGU

Length: 8min 23sec (503 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2017

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[u/oskar669]

Her series on Scientology is fascinating. Highly recommended!