The actress mentioned that the 'Cheers' star's passing was 'very unhappy,' after a few years of talking out in opposition to Scientology.
Leah Remini mourned the loss of life of Kirstie Alley in an interview with Rolling Stone on Tuesday, December 6. The King Of Queens actress, 52, has lengthy been an outspoken critic of Scientology, having spent a few years as a member of the church, and Kirstie clapped again at her many instances all through her profession over the claims, as she was a longtime member. “The information of Kirstie Alley’s passing could be very unhappy,” she advised the outlet
Whereas Leah and Kirstie had their share of instances that they exchanged heated phrases about Scientology, Leah mentioned that she was pondering in regards to the Cheers star’s youngsters, William True, 30, and Lillie Worth Stevenson, 28, after her loss of life at 71 from colon most cancers. “Though Scientologists don’t imagine in prayers, my prayers do exit to her two youngsters, who are actually with out their mother,” she mentioned. “I hope they will, someday, free themselves of this harmful and poisonous group.”
Leah defined that many Scientologists gained’t embrace conventional medication till it’s too late. “Whereas it has been reported that Kirstie sought standard most cancers therapy, which gave her a preventing likelihood, the vast majority of Scientologists don't search therapy till it’s too late,” she mentioned. “Scientologists are satisfied they will remedy themselves of ailments like most cancers. It’s one of many extra sinister issues they promise. And since Scientology claims to be a precise science, not a religion, its members are brainwashed into believing these false claims as ensures.”
Kirstie was a member of the Church of Scientology from 1979 till her passing. Leah had been a member from age 9, till she left the church in 2013. Since leaving, Leah has publicly spoken about her experiences within the church in interviews and created the A&E sequence Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, the place she spoke to former members of the church.
The late Dancing With The Stars alum had credited Scientology with serving to her cease utilizing cocaine, after forming a behavior. After Leah severed ties with the church and publicly spoke out in opposition to it, Kirstie known as her a “bigot” in a 2013 interview on The Howard Stern Present. “If you determine to blanket assertion ‘Scientology is evil,’ you're my enemy,” she mentioned.