(Editor's note: This column was originally published on July 2, 2016.) Leah Remini made headlines in 2013 with her very vocal decision to leave the Church of Scientology. The move sparked a media frenzy and was featured heavily in the storylines of her 2014 TLC reality series Leah Remini: It’s All Relative. The show was cancelled after two seasons but has reportedly given rise to a potentially explosive new series about the Church’s effects on families that Remini is producing. But before her war of words began with Scientology, Remini was getting friendly with Matt LeBlanc's sweet dimwit Joey Tribbiani on the classic comedy Friends.
Leah Remini: Forever a Friend of “Friends”
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