Leah Remini, left, and Tom Cruise.(Photo: Getty Images)

Leah Remini says that Tom Cruise is not only aware of the abuses in the Church of Scientology, but personally inflicted sanctions on a senior member.

"He is very aware of the abuses that occur in Scientology," said Remini. said the Daily Beast in an interview published Wednesday. "He is one of them."

Speaking to Daily Beast about Cruise, the most notoriously private member of the church, Remini said that "Scientologists have learned that Tom Cruise saved the world alone, so he is considered a divinity within of Scientology ", followed by David Miscavige. , head of the church since 1986.

Both men are "best friends", she continued. Cruise was "aware of the punishments inflicted on David Miscavige". She even alleges that Miscavige allegedly threatened staff to bring the "Mission: Impossible" star to Gold Base, the headquarters of the Church of Scientology in San Jacinto, California, "to give them a kick".

She also accused the church of making every effort to protect Cruise from anything that might denigrate her religion.

"They will go as far as, if he will walk in a certain place, they will make sure there are no anti-Scientology magazines, so he can not see that," Remini said.

"The Church rejects all of Leah Remini's allegations as false," spokeswoman for media relations Karin Pouw said in a statement to the United States today. "The interview is a publicity stunt to promote his fake reality show, and as long as the entertainment media spreads Leah Remini's lies, her anti-religious fanaticism will have a voice, and her hate has disastrous consequences."

Remini is herself a former Scientologist and left the church in 2003. Since then, the actress "King of Queens" has published a success memoir recounting her experience, "Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology" , and produced an A & E docusery on the subject "Leah Remini: Scientology and Consequences", which she also animates. The show returns for a third season on November 27th.

Recently, Cruise was screened in its long-running spying franchise "Mission: Impossible – Fallout", which has grossed nearly $ 800 worldwide since July.

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