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Giovanni Ribbisi just put out an interview against Leah's Show


He's claiming she's only doing this for profit. I know his entire family has been in Scientology for his and his sister's entire life and his mom is a talent manager. Jason Lee was one of his best friends and the last few years fled quietly to outside of Austin Texas with his second wife and kids and is lying low now. Strangely, after years of abusising his first wife for not really wanting to be in the cult, casting her out (she wrote a whole article about it and the Ribibi family), it took for his second wife to say ok leaving you with the kids, for him to leave Scientology and apparently he was very deep in that group of B celelebs that were hardcore like Leah was before she was called an SP. I'm sure most of his many acting achievements are due to the help of his fellow scientologist me in the industry and his fortune mostly went to the cult which is sad because I'm sure he made bank on I am Earl and the Cameron Crow movies along with his skateboarding stuff. Apparently, now he wants to live a quiet, simple life. The Ribisis and their group of friends I'm have cut him out as an SP. I wish he'd have the courage like Leah to speak out and help former members heal. It's really pathetic that show finished airing weeks ago and now Giovanni is now attacking Leah and the show. He has a hit Amazon series and should focus on promoting that. It's also sad to see Ben Foster get into the cult, marry now knocked up Laura Prepon. She is another Scientologist celebrity whom after watching this docuseries suprised she is allowed to play a lesbian (since they are a homophobic cult), but I guess since the show is a big hit they are allowing it now for her because the more fameous she is, the better for their PR? He was engaged to Robin Wright and in guessing he dabbled in it and tried to get her to join but she's too smart and independent to join anything like that.

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What a damning indictment  "Only doing it for profit" Like she didn't earn tons of money for King of Queens and is not still getting checks in the mail. I always laugh and roll my eyes at Scientologists attempts to discredit people as they're just so clueless and unaware of how they come across to normal people. They do a better job at making themselves look bad than anyone who ever speaks out against them.

She's obviously very passionate about what she's doing and what she's doing is very risky.

Pathetically weak attempt to discredit her.

The only good thing Giovanni (that's a girl's name btw) ever did was play a crazy retard in My Name Is Earl. Oh and he was effectively creepy (probably not much of a stretch) as the crazy father in Ted.

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Giovanni is an Italian name, my brother has the same name actually.

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Considering all the PROFITS the church makes selling and reselling their literature, I would think calling anyone out for making money would be hypocritical.

Side note - Denton Texas - where Jason Lee moved - is NW of Dallas (close to Oklahoma border). If he had moved to Austin I doubt anyone would have noticed or cared, but this is small town, bible belt texas. Thats why people freaked out at first. Now that he's just a regular resident I haven't heard anything else about it.

Finally, if any star is making money they can pump back into the 'church,' I doubt they would be sanctioned.

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Yeah, she's worth about $20 million and could easily get another show if she wanted, so she's sticking her neck out for more money. 


You know, if it were a low level schlub who toils for the COS all day long and doesn't live in a mansion in Malibu who denounced her I might believe it a little bit more. Of course, they aren't going to let one of those peon's speak up.

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Thanks to this post I'm just learning that Laura Prepon and the little brother of Phoebe are scientologists.

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Laura Prepon stopped practising Scientology a few years ago.

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