Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

Okay, here's what the Church has to say

about Marc and Claire Headley.

"The Church disputes many of the statements made by Marc

and Claire Headley.

They filed two ill-founded lawsuits

against the Church, seeking millions in damages.

The issue of Mrs. Headley's pregnancy

was part of the Headleys' failed lawsuits

and was aimed at generating hostile,

inflammatory p toward the Church to accompany

their frivolous litigation."

Leah: You see these two cars parked in the parking lot there?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

I just want to keep an eye on them when we pull out.

They seem to be together 'cause they're talking.

You see how they're talking to each other?

Yep. Yeah.

The guy on the right has got his left window open.

Yeah. Look.

They're just totally staring at us.

You know what I mean?

They're moving. There he is.

Oh, there he is. No. Let him go.

Stop. Let him go.

There you go. Go ahead.

No. We're good. Go ahead. No. We're good.

Go ahead. No. We're good.

Go ahead. No. We're good. Go ahead.

- No. We're good. Go ahead. - Okay. Watch this.

- Hey, buddy. - How are you?

Mike: I'm good. Who you working for?

- Yeah, right. - Yeah, okay.

Piece of

Yeah, they're not TMZ.

Because TMZ and photographers...

they... they follow you only to get the shot.

- Where's your camera? You don't want a shot? - Yeah.

You're from TMZ, and you don't want a shot?

- Yeah. - Ha.

Right.

By tracking airline reservations.

No.

But you can do it.

Well, it doesn't intimidate me.

It makes me want to retaliate, you know?

'Cause I'm not gonna stand for it.

It's one thing if it's paparazzi

because that's the business that I'm in.

But I'm not in the business of being stalked

by assholes I don't know.

I am the writer of the textbooks of Scientology.

The aim and goal is to put man in a-a mental condition,

where he him... can solve his own problems.

It offers you a sense of purpose in life.

Not only are you fixing yourself,

but you're also helping mankind.

Without any Scientology organization,

things are not going to change on this planet.

Woman: After years of slowly questioning Scientology...

Man: Leah Remini in her very public break with Scientology...

I didn't want to find out

that what I had done my whole life was a lie.

Fight for your family.

Fight for your daughters, your sons.

Get them out of this thing.

You're not going to continue to lie to people

and abuse people

and take their money and their lives.

If I can stop one, then I'm going to do it.

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Good evening.

Five times a year,

you are required to be at a Scientology event.

It's mandatory that you're there.

You're dressed up.

And they start out with this movie.

Man: When the history of this planet is finally told,

it will be a tale of a determined few

who rose up against overwhelming odds

and stood firm for the rights of man.

The horses... galloping.

Look at this shit.

Like, we're doing some... man.

We're slaying the dragons.

Look at us.

Man: Our hallmark is unrelenting commitment

and enduring compassion, extending a hand,

however, wherever, and whenever.

Leah: And then these graphics come up...

"And we've saved that country

and we took this drug company down

and we won this and we saved thousands of lives

here and hundreds of thousands here,"

and things like "millions."

So, if you had any doubts, which I did,

when you hear some of these statistics, you're like,

"Oh, my God, we are changing the world,

so all of our sacrifices,

the money, the time, the missed vacations...

it's all worth it because, look, overall,

look at what we're doing."

I don't think that Leah realizes the level of deception

that is involved in those events.

She doesn't know what went on behind the scenes.

She doesn't know how those events got put together

and how those things are staged.

This morning we're gonna meet Marc Headley.

Marc was integral to the production

of all of the events that were put on.

He produced a lot of those events.

He was intimately involved

and oversaw all aspects

of Scientology's propaganda machine.

Leah: Hi, honey.

- Good to see you. - You too.

My name is Marc Headley,

and I was a Scientologist for 25 years.

And I was in Golden Era Productions...

or "Gold"...

and I left in 2005.

When I was 15 years old,

I signed a billion-year Sea Org contract.

I'm pretty sure I had no idea what I was doing when I was 15.

I wasn't in a position to carefully make the decision

to sign a billion-year contract.

I was very into audio/visual stuff.

As a kid, I took apart TVs and radios

and fixed them and knew how to solder

and do all that sort of thing.

And I was told, "Well, there's a place

at the international headquarters

where that's all they do,

is audio/visual stuff."

So, for me, I thought,

"Oh, that's a... that's a no-brainer."

The name of the Scientology facility

was called Golden Era Productions.

It's a propaganda machine which produces

all audio/visual products for Scientology.

I worked directly for David Miscavige,

the head of Scientology.

When I first arrived at Golden Era productions,

it was a huge property,

over 500 acres, lush, green lawns,

immaculate buildings, facilities, dining areas.

It was amazing.

But it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

It was very much a pressure cooker to get stuff done.

It was, "We don't have any time. We don't have any money."

In the 15 years that I was there,

I probably pulled 500 all-nighters in that 15 years.

Multiple times a year, you'd just stay for a week.

You wouldn't even go home.

Now, you were what?

What was your job in the Sea Org?

For a good majority of the time, I was either

- the pre-production director... - Mm-hmm.

...which we did all of the research and assembly,

costumes, makeup, sets, and props,

all the preparatory actions for the events.

And then for a good amount of time,

I was either the assistant producer or the producer,

- so... - So, you did these events.

You... You produced these events.

Full time.

Welcome to our planetary New Year's party

and the night we rock into 2006.

It was my job to produce these events

to make it look like Scientology was expanding.

There's a Golden Era Productions

casting office in the Celebrity Centre

for the specific function

of having auditions to get people to appear

in Scientology promotional films or videos.

There were times when I doubted the Church

and then I'd go to an event and I'd see these statistics.

And I remember thinking, like,

"Wow, Leah, you're an...

Look at the amazing things that the Church is doing."

I mean, I can tell you from being involved

in the production of events and promotional videos

for Scientology over a 15-year period,

it's most likely bull.

Man: Across the network in totality,

we are now talking a Narconon South Europe

that has rehabilitated more than 10,000

from terminal addiction,

moreover, a decline in usage

- across the entire - consumption table,

with heroin, hallucinogens, cocaine,

and cannabis plunging an unheard-of 39%.

Because of these statistics,

I was, like, kind of brought back in.

- Mm-hmm. - It makes me believe.

- Yeah. - And it makes me give up my money,

and it makes me give up my time.

And I recently just found out

that these statistics are not true.

Yeah. A lot of times,

the way... what happens...