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Actress Leah Remini on Monday revealed that she has had to fight fear, depression, and anxiety on a daily basis since fleeing the Church of Scientology in 2013, opening up about the impact of the organization’s alleged attempts to “undermine and destabilize” her on her mental and physical health in a lengthy social media post.
“It has been a decade since I fled from Scientology with my family, but it is a constant struggle to push myself to experience my life,” Remini wrote in the X post. “I will have a good day and think to myself, ‘OK, tomorrow I’m going to continue to do things that I want to do,’ and then depression takes over. I get consumed by fear and find every reason not to go.”
“I have to fight this in myself every day,” she continued. “The process starts all over again from the moment I wake up; I want to get out; I want to experience so many things, including the mundane, and most days, I don’t.”