Two-time Emmy winner Leah Remini did not 'respect' how Orange Is the New Black alum Laura Prepon handled her exit from the Church of Scientology.
The raven-haired 41-year-old announced on August 17 that she stopped practicing the controversial religion nearly 'five years ago' after becoming a mother to two children.
'As a brand new mother, I was reflecting so much on my own upbringing and the way I was mothered,' Laura - who has four-year-old daughter Ella and a 19-month-old son - told People.
Sounding off: Two-time Emmy winner Leah Remini (L) did not 'respect' how Orange Is the New Black alum Laura Prepon (R) handled her exit from the Church of Scientology
'I was forced to look at a lot of things in my life that I wasn't looking at before.'
Prepon now practices Transcendental Meditation like her husband Ben Foster, who studied it at the Maharishi International University in Iowa.
'I reached out to her and, like I just said, not everybody who has a voice uses it,' Leah told "Daily Beast Live on Tuesday.
'Some people, like Laura, feel that they don't have a responsibility to speak out. Do I respect it? I mean, not really.'
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'I was reflecting so much on my own upbringing and the way I was mothered': The raven-haired 41-year-old (pictured September 13) announced on August 17 that she stopped practicing the controversial religion nearly 'five years ago' after becoming a mother to two children
Laura - who has four-year-old daughter Ella and a 19-month-old son - told People: 'I was forced to look at a lot of things in my life that I wasn't looking at before' (pictured July 15)
$1K course fee: Prepon now practices Transcendental Meditation like her husband Ben Foster (L, pictured September 13), who studied it at the Maharishi International University in Iowa
The Brooklyn-born, LA-raised 51-year-old understood she was going to 'take a beating' leaving Scientology in 2013 after 34 years, and she received support from her powerful BFF Jennifer Lopez.
'I was a vocal Scientologist. I got people into Scientology - I promoted it most of my life,' Leah explained.
'For those of us who were in the public eye and who were speaking on behalf of Scientology, getting people into Scientology, I feel that we have a responsibility to do the work when we find out that none of those things we were doing was not only [not] helpful, but damaging and very harmful to people's
