Leah Remini praises Jerrod Carmichael’s Shelly Miscavige joke
Leah Remini praised Jerrod Carmichael after he joked about the alleged disappearance of Scientologist Shelly Miscavige while attending the 2023 Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday.
“Thank you Jerrod Carmichael! Where is Shelly?? #GoldenGlobes2023 #GoldenGlobes,” the former church member turned outspoken critic tweeted along with a video of Carmichael’s joke.
Remini, 52, also responded to a tweet about the “Carmichael Show” alum, 35, inhaling “the air from the room” full of celebrities by bringing the controversial organization to life.
“I love you”, she wrote.
Leah Remini supported Jerrod Carmichael after he joked about the alleged disappearance of Scientologist Shelly Miscavige while attending the 2023 Golden Globes. Fox Image Collection via Getty I
Carmichael made the cheeky joke while standing on stage at the Beverly Hilton with three Golden Globe trophies in his arms, teasing that they were the ones infamous Scientologist Tom Cruise returned in 2021 over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of black voters. .
“Look, I’m just a brief host or whatever, but I have a range: I think maybe we take these three things and trade them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige,” the stand-up comedian said as the crowd laughed in unison time. awkward and short of breath.
Carmichael joked that Tom Cruise’s trophies could be traded for Miscavige’s “safe return.” NBC via Getty Images
Shelly, who has not been seen in public since August 2007, is the wife of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, who is close friends with Cruise.
Since leaving Scientology in 2013, Remini has joined a slew of people defending information about Shelly’s whereabouts. She even once speculated that the so-called Queen of Scientology is dead.
Shelly, seen here with her Scientology leader husband David Miscavige, has not been seen in public for nearly two decades.
The “King of Queens” alum has said she first became suspicious when Shelly was absent from Cruise’s wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006.
“Shelly was always with her husband. She was his shadow, not only because she was married to him, but also because she was his main helper. For her not to be present was not only unusual, but also unimaginable,” Remini wrote on Twitter in November 2022, while reflecting on the “wedding of the century.”
Remini began questioning Shelly’s whereabouts at the wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in 2006. Getty Images for Paramount Pictu
The “Kevin Can Wait” alum went so far as to file a missing person’s report for Shelly in 2013, but the Los Angeles Police Department claimed just days later that its officers had found Shelly and met personally with him.
The department then closed the case.
Remini filed a missing person’s report for Shelly in 2013. Getty Images for A&E Networks
However, Remini has continued to use her platform to talk about Shelly.
As recently as November, she tweeted a 20-part link accusing an LAPD officer of dropping the case in exchange for a $20,000 donation to youth programs.
Remini has continued to look into Shelly’s whereabouts.FilmMagic
The department released a statement shortly after the “Second Act” star’s posts went viral, reiterating that in 2014 “detectives found [Shelly] to be alive and safe, and then closed the missing persons investigation.”
Remini, who was a Scientologist since age 8, detailed her experience with the church in her 2015 memoir, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, as well as her Emmy-winning documentary, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath”. “
