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"At 13, They Told Me I Was a Freeloader" - "Oluremi "Mimi" Faust is one of the stars of VH1's popular show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, which runs on Monday nights. A week ago, Mimi stunned the show's largely African-American audience when she revealed that she had been abandoned at 13 by her mother, who was a Scientologist.
With the help of our commenting community, we soon identified her mother, and then tracked down some people who had worked with her in Scientology's hardcore "Sea Org."
... Each week, hundreds of urban culture websites compete to summarize the stormy triangle between Stevie J, a singer he's been sleeping with named Joseline, and the mother of his young child, Mimi Faust. As the show has developed, Faust has come off as the adult in the group, and she's attracted a large following who characterize her as a strong woman with smart entrepreneurial skills.
It was something of a shock, then, during the seventh episode, aired on July 30, when Mimi admitted during a therapy session that she's dealing with abandonment issues because of her mother's obsession with Scientology.
Twitter lit up with viewers asking, what the hell is Scientology? (An exceedingly white movement, Scientology has been trying to make inroads in the black community for years. One result of that effort is the bizarre involvement of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.)"
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