Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

Aaron Smith-Levin and his twin brother Collin were prodigies at Scientology's spiritual counseling practice known as auditing. But their paths diverged after Collin was dismissed from the program, leading to the painful tragedy Aaron shares with Leah.

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

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what's called the Flag Land Base.

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This house here on the left, Leah,

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He just told me that you send your babies over there

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- It's crazy, it's crazy. - I know.

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like within the first few weeks.

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I think that if the exemption had not happened,

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that I personally felt as a 12-year-old

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You are ready to audit and audit and audit.

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The E-Meter tells the auditor

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with the new way of now training all auditors.

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to match his own image of what he felt was proper Scientology.

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- You have this now mission - Absolutely.

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that were supposed to be the hardest versions

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The Flag is supposed to be the best,

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that made it much longer and much harder.

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to go to the buildings where we study,

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Scientologists believe that someone leaves Scientology

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and now his existence is going into a room

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and you just let it go

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once you finished your training. - Right.

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and he enrolled at the University of New Mexico

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You stop being my sister, my brother, my husband, my wife,

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at that time as being similar to the Hitler Youth...

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Knowledge reports are things that scientologists

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because if I don't I'm gonna get in trouble

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under the guise of, well, you don't wanna...

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- Right. - And long story short,

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of having to deal with the guilt that she gave up her son

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- Right. - It came back disapproved.

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Well, at this point, I only talk to my father

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and tell her was probably

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"He was just a Suppressive Person.

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he didn't talk about it much

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They're like, "Yeah, he really [bleep] hated scientology."

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two and a half hours a day minimum,

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were saying how incredibly abusive the environment was

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That is what kept me in, you know? Yeah.

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...I get called in my boss's office,

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Shut the [bleep] up.

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my kids are being kicked out of their school

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on how to handle the disconnection

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in 20 years they need to cancel disconnection

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