Caroline wrote:
"FWIW, the Aftermath also scripted, produced, directed and edited Tayler Tweed's story (Season 2, Episode 2). They also produced, directed and edited the excerpts and their use from the responses of Cathy Tweed and corporate Scientology.
Here's a transcript of the beginning of the next episode:
[00:00:00.000]
[Screen: LAST WEEK:
LEAH REMINI:
SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
SHARED LAUREN HAGGIS'S STORY ABOUT TAYLER TWEED]
LH (Lauren Haggis)(at home): She tried to commit suicide and she had nowhere to go to get help.
LR (Leah Remini): (nods)
[Screen: TAYLER TWEED'S MOTHER
EMAILED A&E
I am horrified that A+E and Leah Remini are exploiting for financial gain the tragic death of my daughter Tayler Tweed who died by suicide three years ago. A+E's teaser for the upcoming episode shows a picture of my beautiful daughter accompanied by a voiceover that "she had nowhere to go to get help."
[Highlighted text: "The teaser is absolutely false. Tayler was a 27-year-old adult staying in Fullerton, California at the time of her death. There were absolutely no restrictions placed on her mental health care choices. She could go wherever she pleased to seek or obtain help for her depression. In fact, she was staying with close friends who were not Scientologists who would have helped her seek care had" ]
[...]
[Visible text, not highlighted:] myself, that she took her own life. No one was in her way or placed restrictions on her care, especially in the last few months of her life when she was exclusively in a home of non-Scientologists.
In the months before her death, she received a complete medical and mental health care evaluation followed by mental health care treatment at a clinic staffed by naturopathic physicians, psychotherapists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and acupuncturists. She further had in-depth mental and medical evaluations and testing at a university clinic. Additionally, saw her own personal physician twice in the year before she died. None of these people were Scientologists.
To the best of my knowledge, the person in the trailer who is being offered as a source for your program was never a good friend of Tayler's and was in no position to know the facts. I've checked with the REAL close friends of Tayler's and they also concur this fact.]
[Screen: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY ALSO REPLIED]
[Scene: leahreminiaftermath.com
[00:00:19.730]
Highlighted: "Remini featured a so-called "friend" Lauren Haggis to speak about Tayler even though Lauren had no relationship with Tayler Tweed for a decade. While they had been roommates for a short period at boarding school in their early teens, they were not friends after that. Now Haggis is grossly exploiting the death of someone she knew years ago to tell stories that she herself did not see nor witness. And Eli Holzman of Slauson production company disingenuously uses Lauren to narrate and give "details" based on hearsay. This disgusting act by Lauren is all in order to get publicity for herself just like her father did in using the Church to get publicity for his sagging career.
Tayler's close friends have said that after Tayler's death some very disreputable people started attempting to use it for their own personal gain. Her true friends were appalled."]
[Screen: BUT SURVIVORS CONTINUE TO COME FORWARD
EPISODE 3 STARTS NOW]"
This is probably the first time any defense of Cathy Tweed has ever been allowed on ESMB.
Again: Cathy Tweed is not a public figure. Cathy Tweed is not responsible for any of the abuses or criminality in Scientology.
Cathy Tweed is a mother who lost her 27 year old daughter to suicide.