Leah Remini is continuing her crusade against the mysterious Church of Scientology — and this time Tom Cruise is her target.
The actress conducted a Reddit AMA this week and was asked by a user if Tom Cruise — one of the most high-profile Scientologists — is a good person, to which Remini replied: “No!”
“Just going to get straight to it, no! There is a public persona of the guy who looks at you directly in the eye and shakes your hand and hugs you and is an attentive person to you and there’s the person behind the mask who is a completely different person,” Remini explained.
“Someone could say we all have that — what we are to the public and who we are behind the scenes, but the people who are around Tom and work for Tom, not even people who are Scientologists, they will say he is diaboloical(sic).”
The “King of Queens” star then threw herself into the narrative, saying some people might call her an “a–hole” and many actors are, but with Cruise, it’s something different.
“He’s very similar to David Miscavige, they could be twins,” she continued, referencing the leader of the Church of Scientology.
Remini, 47, answered the question in the AMA thread to promote the upcoming season of her Scientology take-down series “Scientology and the Aftermath.”
The star left the church in 2013 after having been a part of since she was a young child.
Since then, she’s made it her mission to get to the bottom of what she thinks is wrong with Scientology, even recently declaring a federal investigation should be opened into its practices.
The Church of Scientology has continued to denounce Remini and her claims, calling her a “bitter ex-Scientologist.”
“She needs to move on with her life instead of pathetically exploiting her former religion, her former friends and other celebrities for money,” the church said in a statement.
The church also referred to her series as “doomed to be a cheap reality TV show” in a statement.
“Scientology and the Aftermath” embarked on Season 2 Wednesday on A&E.
Remini has previously mentioned Cruise in her discussions of the church. She was asked by Larry King in an interview in Dec. 2016 what the “Mission Impossible” star would say to her about her decision to jump ship.
“He wouldn’t say anything to me, because he thinks I’m the devil,” she told King. “He honestly believes … Tom and most Scientologists, all Scientologists are taught to believe that people like me are literally the devil, that we mean them harm.”
Remini also mentioned in her book “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” that she was accused of ruining Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding by asking why Miscavige’s wife Shelly wasn’t with him.
There is an ongoing controversy surrounding Shelly’s disappearance. Remini even filed a missing-persons report in 2014, but the LAPD later ruled it “unfounded.”
However, there are still no firm details on her whereabouts.
Remini later said that Cruise could “single-handedly” end the “cult” of Scientology.
