"Kevin took one look at me and said, 'I'm sorry. After Remini agrees to take a meeting about King of Queens after first rejecting the part, she meets James on set. Remini's co-star on King of Queens, Kevin James, pops up a few times in Troublemaker, and always as a voice of reason. Estimates of the actual worldwide members are closer to 35,000." She also says the Sea Organization, Scientology's clergy of sorts, is estimated to have 4,000 members in the United States.
Remini clarifies: " number apparently includes anyone who has ever bought a book, taken a course, or entered a church building. And while much of the information in Troublemaker is not new, Remini does offer up some juicy tidbits from her decades in the church.Īll of Scientology's members could fit in Yankee Stadium.Īlthough not necessarily dedicated to member retention-Scientologists are forced to disconnect from anyone the church has declared a "Suppressive Person"-the church has claimed some 10 million parishioners worldwide. It's clear from the book's first page that Remini was in, and she was in deep.
But in Troublemaker, a breezy and snarky 250 pages of Scientology dirt, Remini rattles off church ideology and acronyms like a pro: There are Operating Thetans (OTs) and Training Routines (TRs) Master-at-Arms (MAAs) and MEST work (matter, energy, space and time). Given Remini's no-nonsense personality, it's hard to understand how she could have been so committed (like $5 million committed) to a church with such controversial policies. "She needs to move on with her life instead of pathetically exploiting her former religion, her former friends and other celebrities for money and attention to appear relevant again." "Leah Remini has become what she once declared she never wanted to be known as: 'this bitter ex-Scientologist,'" the church wrote in a statement about the book. Her defection was a blow even for a church that knows a lot about bad press. A member of the church for more than 30 years-she joined as a child after her mother started dating a Scientologist-Remini had long been a committed, if not hugely vocal, Scientologist. Still, Leah Remini's Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology was highly anticipated. The secrets of a church that claims its secrets are too mind-blowing for the average person to know have long since been revealed. Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, wrote a memoir about her time in the church, as have a half-dozen other former practitioners. In 2013, Lawrence Wright's Going Clear documented the experiences of several formerly high-ranking Scientology members Alex Gibney's HBO adaptation aired in March. Updated | Gone are the days when a Scientology exposé had the impact of a classified document dump-defections from the notoriously insulated religion now occur with all the frequency of Justin Bieber meltdowns.
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