Carmen Llywelyn

Carmen Llywelyn, also known as Carmen Lee, is an American actress and photographer.

Career She starred in the 1996 film Drawing Flies, a View Askew production directed by Matthew Gissing and Malcolm Ingram, and produced by Kevin Smith. She portrayed Kim in the 1997 film Chasing Amy directed by Kevin Smith; co-stars included Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, and Joey Lauren Adams. She appeared in the 2000 film alongside actors Radha Mitchell and Mia Kirshner. She was the lead actress in Free (2001), opposite Corin Nemec, also starring Randall Batinkoff and Ione Skye.

Personal life In 1994, Llywelyn met Jason Lee, then a professional skateboarder. In March 2001, the couple lived together in Southern California. Llywelyn and Lee obtained a divorce in 2001. Lee stated of their separation, "Our breakup had nothing to do with Hollywood or my career."

Llywelyn entered a long-term relationship, with someone other than Lee, in 2003 and the couple became parents of twins in 2004. As of 2015, the family lived together in Atlanta. According to Llywelyn, her resistance to becoming more involved with Scientology was a cause of problems in their relationship.

According to her account, after she revealed to her Scientologist talent manager Gay Ribisi (mother of actor Giovanni Ribisi) that she had read A Piece of Blue Sky, a book critical of the Church, she was labeled a suppressive person and shunned (or "disconnected") by her friends within the church. Her husband sent a "disconnection letter" as a sign of contempt two days after said conversation; he would ironically drop out of his involvement with Scientology in 2016. Llywelyn's manager, a member of the Church, also "disconnected" and allegedly convinced United Talent Agency to drop Llywelyn as a client.

Since her departure, Llywelyn has been an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology. She has expressed distaste for the classist undertones of Scientology.