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    Jada Pinkett Smith and Leah Remini have ended their feud

    The 'Girls Trip' actress has bonded with the 48-year-old star after realising they were both "broken little girls" and they have been able to put their 2017 clash - which saw Jada deny Leah's claim she is a member of the Church of Scientology - behind them


    Jada said: "What was really emotional about it was realising that there was two broken little girls in us that were abandoned by their fathers and turned into fighters who clashed."

    And Jada has learned a lot from Leah - who left the church after 35 years in 2013 and has been an outspoken critic of the religion ever since - after sitting down with her to learn her story.

    She told People magazine: "You have to treat people with kindness because you don't know what they're going through.

    "When she told me her story, I had so much more compassion and it reiterated the necessity to just be gentle and kind because we're all f***ing devastated."

    The 47-year-old actress is grateful that the 'Old School' actress was the bigger person and "reached out" to resolve their differences.

    She said: "It was really beautiful and she reached out to me. She was much more bigger than me in that way. It was nice to reconnect and release ourselves from all that nonsense that doesn't matter."

    Jada rubbished claims she was a Scientologist on Twitter last September after Leah alleged she had seen her at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles on many occasions.

    Jada - who has 20-year-old son Jaden and 17-year-old daughter Willow with husband Will Smith - insists that just because she has visited the Scientology Celebrity Centre doesn't make her a follower of the quasi religion, just as her trips to various mosques, temples and Christian churches around the world do not make her a follower of any of the religions associated with those places of worship.

    In a series of tweets, she posted: "I recently lit Shabbat candles with Rabbi Bentley at Temple Sinai... but I am not Jewish.

    "I have prayed in mosques all over the world ... but I am not a Muslim.

    "I have read the Bhagavad Gita ... but I am not a Hindu. I have chanted and meditated in some of the most magnificent temples on earth ... but I am not a Buddhist. I have studied Dianetics, and appreciate the merits of Study Tech ... but I am not a Scientologist. I practice human kindness, and I believe that we each have the right to determine what we are and what we are not ... NO ONE ELSE can hold that power. (sic)"

    Scientology is a body of beliefs and practices created in 1954 by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard.

    Bizarrely, Hubbard claimed that billions of extra-terrestrial beings were sent to Earth by Xenu - the dictator of the 'Galactic Confederacy', comprised of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth - who gathered them around volcanoes and then destroyed the aliens with hydrogen bombs.

    The aliens' souls attached themselves to chosen humans, known as thetans, who will be one day be saved from their life of spiritual harm.

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