Leah Remini Instagram – I wanted to share these photos with you and tell you why they mean so much to me. I dropped by NYU to meet with my Dean, Angie Kamath, and her colleague Michael Foote. I brought my sister Nicole along and we had such an inspirational meeting. I’ve shared in the past how incredible but challenging my college journey has been. After living in a cult for 35 years and having nothing more than an 8th-grade education, the higher education experience has been a very steep uphill climb. There are days when I feel ashamed that I don’t already know basic facts about a particular issue. I get so frustrated with myself on these days. Our mom joined Scientology before we were even in high school. So when we should have been in school, we were responsible for cleaning rooms in a Scientology hotel and living in roach-infested motels. If you had told either of us ten years ago that we would be at NYU meeting with my Dean, we wouldn’t have believed it. If you had told us this 30 years ago, we would have thought you were insane. We honestly thought we were helping save the world by doing what we were doing for Scientology. So why would we waste our time getting an education from non-Scientologists? In Scientology, they brainwash you into believing that everything you need in life comes from Scientology. Therefore, every solution to every problem is within Scientology. Every answer to every question is within Scientology. It’s the way all totalitarian systems work, and if you are a part of this system, you become isolated from the real world at a level that is hard for outsiders to comprehend. It feels wonderful to be back in the city of my birth with my sister and starting over after so many years of feeling isolated from the knowledge many people take for granted. I got straight A’s last semester and took some additional courses this summer. I learned so much about geopolitics this summer and how Orientalism impacts depictions of the Middle East. After meeting with Dean Kamath, my sister decided she wanted to take courses at NYU. It feels surreal that the two of us may be attending NYU at the same time.