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Well, it looks like you can count Jada Pinkett Smith in as a member of the controversial Church of Scientology. That’s per actress Leah Remini.

In an interview with the Daily Beast, Scientology’s most famous defector, Remini alleges that the Girls Trip star is down with L. Ron Hubbard’s allegedly out of this world beliefs.

“I know Jada’s in. I know Jada’s in. She’s been in Scientology a long time,” Remini told The Daily Beast. “I never saw Will [Smith] there, but I saw Jada at the Celebrity Centre. They opened up a Scientology school, and have since closed it. But Jada, I had seen her at the Scientology Celebrity Centre all the time.” (Pinkett Smith reportedly did not return multiple requests for comment.)

Rumors of Jada’s involvement with the church have been kicked around for quite some time now but this is the first time she’s actually been called out as a member by anyone in the know.

But the evidence has been mounting over the years including Jada and Will’s funding of a now defunct “Scientology school” where most of the hired staff were scientologists and a $20,000 contribution the couple made to the church’s literacy campaign, HELP.

The host of the scientology docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and The Aftermath even recalls a weird night she spent with the Smiths and Scientology frontman Tom Cruise playing hide-and-seek at Tom’s request.

“At first I thought he was joking,” she wrote. “But, no, he literally wanted to play hide-and-seek with a bunch of grown-ups in what was probably close to a 7,000-square-foot house on almost three full acres of secluded land.”

After realizing she was in Jimmy Choo heels, Remini wrote that she declined the offer—which is apparently rare when dealing with a high-ranking Scientologist like Cruise—only to have Cruise approach her, quip, “Well, good. So you’re ‘It,’ then,” and tag her before bolting.

That boy Tom got issues.

While her show’s co-presenter, Mike Rinder, doesn’t feel that Will Smith is a member of the church, Remini is convinced that his wife absolutely is.

“I had hoped that she had left [Scientology], but this was the tell-tale sign that she was still in,” said Remini, nodding to the Cruise hide-and-seek anecdote she shared in her book. “She was on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live a few weeks ago promoting her film [Girls Trip], and Andy [Cohen] said to her, ‘Have you read Leah Remini’s book?’ and he was like, ‘What was that whole thing about playing tag?’ and she said, ‘Oh, she lied.’ He goes, ‘Isn’t that weird, to play tag?’ and she goes, ‘No, the kids were there.’ That was untrue. Bullsh*t. There were no kids there. I was like, okay, alright, you’re gonna do that? More power to ya.”

Now we wait and see if Mrs. Smith responds to this latest allegation.

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