How Leah Remini plans to wage war on Church of Scientology: ‘She will call Tom Cruise as a witness’

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filed a lawsuit Wednesday which reveals extraordinary allegations of a harassment campaign against her and other “survivors.”Remini, 53, who named Cruise’s BFF, Scientology leader David Miscavige, as a defendant in the suit, has former church leaders backing her—and they tell The Post they’re ready to tell their truth about its “regime of abuse.”Remini, who has labeled Hollywood icon Cruise as “essentially second in command” in the church, alleged that she was held at a Scientology facility for 4 months and “psychologically punished” after asking where Miscavige’s wife, Shelly Miscavige, was at Cruise’s 2006 Italian wedding to his ex-wife Katie Holmes.One highly-placed source told The Post: “I think that Leah will call Tom to be a witness.

She claims that she was abused after his wedding, so why wouldn’t she call him? He’s a part of this.”The Post has reached out to Cruise for comment.The church grew out of the writings of British science fiction author, L.

Ron Hubbard, who came to believe that human bodies are a temporary home for immortal spirits known as “thetans.” Its followers—estimated at 30,000 or more—have given the church a fortune widely estimated to run up to $3 billion.But its secrecy and practices including encouraging members to sign billion-year pledges of servitude have long seen it being called a “cult” by critics.According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Wednesday, the Church of Scientology “stalked, surveilled, harassed, threatened, intimidated” Remini after she quit the church in 2013.She accuses it of spreading lies about her on hundreds of social media accounts it controls.