Laura Prepon, best known for her starring role in Orange Is the New Black, has disclosed that Scientology is no longer part of her life.
That's according to an article that appeared on the People website Tuesday, which covered a range of topics, including her experiences with motherhood and her history with bulimia.
"I'm no longer practicing Scientology," says Prepon of the change. "I've always been very open-minded, even since I was a child. I was raised Catholic and Jewish. I've prayed in churches, meditated in temples. I've studied Chinese meridian theory. I haven't practiced Scientology in close to five years and it's no longer part of my life."
Prepon has a four-year-old daughter and a 16-month-old son with her husband, actor Ben Foster. According to the interview, her perspective as a mother has caused her to reevaluate some things in her life.
"As a brand new mother, I was reflecting so much on my own upbringing and the way I was mothered," Prepon said in the interview. "I was forced to look at a lot of things in my life that I wasn't looking at before."
Both her and her husband, who has never practiced Scientology, have taken to meditation to fulfill the spiritual aspects of their lives.
"We meditate daily and I'm really liking it," she says, "because it's something that helps me to hear my own voice and it's something we can do together."
Tony Ortega, an author who focuses on Scientology, tweeted, "Laura Prepon follows Beck's lead by mentioning in a @People interview today that she's been out of #Scientology for 5 years. Given her involvement with Danny Masterson and past intimidation of one of his victims, she has more to explain. I've asked Leah Remini for her thoughts."
He went on to delve into celebrity connections with the controversial belief system. "To remind you what Leah said about Beck, when he similarly mentioned casually in an interview that he'd long been out of Scientology," he wrote, then linking to an article on his website where Remini had some choice words about the public backpedaling.
"He’s acting like he was never a Scientologist, which is his way of not publicly speaking out and therefore not getting labeled like us and attacked like us,” Remini said in that November 2019 article. “Pussy move. You can quote me on that."
"If motherhood has taught me anything so far, it's that something can work out for a period of time and then you move on and evolve from that," said Prepon in the interview, likely talking about much more than leaving Scientology. "As a new mom, I was riddled with anxiety that I had never experienced before. My friends who were mothers with older kids said, 'Laura, this is a phase, you'll move on and then it will be something different.' And that has transcended into other parts of my life. We're all evolving. I always see that with my kids."
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