Amanda Seyfried is Expecting, Drunk History with Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath Recap

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda told the story of Alexander Hamilton and his feud with Aaron Burr while drinking a lot of whiskey on last night’s episode of Drunk History. Here are five of the best moments from the episode:

1. Miranda Getting Drunk. Choice quotes from the liquored-up playwright included, “I’m pretty drunk. I’m giggly, and there’s gaps in my memory–already,” and, “I want to order Domino’s.”
2. The F-Bomb. Within the first three minutes of the episode, Miranda drops the F-bomb and gets censored by the network. Playbill reports that he ended up saying the F-word 26 times during the 30-minute episode–and once in the final credits.
3. Including Women in the Story. The show’s leading characters, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, are played by women: Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza as Burr and Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat as Hamilton.
4. Questlove Facetiming in. Roots drummer Questlove–who also produced the Hamilton cast album–interrupted the episode to tell Miranda, “My girl and I got together based on our love for Drunk History.” Later, Miranda Facetimed with Hamiltonstar Christopher Jackson–who originated the role of George Washington in the musical.
5. Miranda Singing “Closing Time.” Towards the episode’s end, Miranda quoted Semisonic’s 1998 hit song “Closing Time,” saying, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end,” as he recounts a story about Alexander Hamilton standing on a bar singing to his friends. He then proceeded to sit at the piano and play and sing the tune.
   

   

   Amanda Seyfried is expecting her first child with fiancé Thomas Sadoski. Us Weekly reports that the couple’s rep confirmed the baby news on Tuesday after the 30-year-old actress debuted her baby bump in a sheer black minidress at the launch of Givenchy’s new fragrance, Live Irrésistible. Seyfried, whose engagement went public last month, previously spoke to Marie Claire U.K. last year about wanting to start a family. “I keep feeling like my eggs are dying off. I need to get on it,” she said at the time. “I want a child. Badly. I want to be a mother, badly.” Sadowski, 40, was previously married to casting director Kimberly Hope.

   Leah Remini’s new A&E docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath premiered on Tuesday night. The episode featured Remini interviewing former members of the Church of Scientology about their experiences as followers and what their lives were like after leaving the religion. Here are seven disturbing allegations made in the premiere episode:

    
   1. Statutory rape went unreported to the police.Amy Scobee, who said she was in charge of Celebrity Centres, didn’t go to high school and became a member at 14. She alleged that she was taken advantage of by her boss, who was 35 at the time. Scobee said her boss told his wife about the incident and the couple told the Church, but the Church did not inform Scobee’s parents or police. Scobee also said that she absorbed the blame.
   2. Scientologists take judicial matters into their own hands. In response to Scobee’s confession, Mike Rinder, who says he was the international spokesman for Scientology for 20 years, alleged that the church breeds distrust of the judicial system. “You’re also indoctrinated in Scientology to believe that the justice system is corrupt,” he said, “that it doesn’t do anything to ever resolve the problem. That Scientology is where the answers lie, to even a child molester.”
   3. Leader David Miscavige is physically abusive. Scobee described the Church’s leader as “a very angry man.” She said, “If you said something that didn’t please him he would go off on you. If you were a man he would likely hit you, punch you, knock you down, choke you.”
   4. Letters are written to families so members won’t be reported missing. Scobee said Scientologists are taught that “the church is first, and family is a distraction.” She said congregants write to family members so they won’t be reported as missing. “They’re called ‘good roads fair weather’ letters,” she said, “so that they don’t file missing persons reports on you or go to the media because they haven’t heard from their children, or something like that.”
   5. Scobee was ordered to swarm Tom Cruise with Scientologists. “We went to extremes to make celebrities happy,” Scobee said, “and it was mainly Tom Cruise.” She said it was her job “to surround Tom Cruise with Scientologists on staff.” “I had to hire an executive housekeeper, a maid, a cook,” she said. “They wanted him to only be in Scientology 100 percent.”
   6. Security guards keep members from fleeing.After growing defiant, Scobee was sent to Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) in 2003, which she described as a place “for Sea Org members who get in big trouble.” “You run everywhere you go,” she said. “You do hard manual labor. You call everybody ‘sir.’ You have no communication in and no communication out within that group.”
   7. Members are relentless when encouraging disconnection. Remini called disconnection the Church’s “biggest weapon.” The process, defined in the series as cutting off “all contact with someone critical of the Church of Scientology,” can keep families apart. Once Scobee was free, she aimed to connect with her mom, Bonny Elliott, who was still an active Scientologist, before other members would encourage disconnection.