Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter Suri was left crying on the bathroom floor during a dinner before the couple’s wedding, Leah Remini claims in her new Scientology tell-all.
Remini also claims that Cruise and former wife Nicole Kidman’s adopted children were heavily into Scientology and said they only spoke to their mother when forced.
In her exposé, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Remini claims that Suri, who was then seven months old, could be heard wailing throughout the star-studded dinner.
After five minutes, she went to to check on the baby and found Cruise’s sister, his assistant and another woman staring at the infant who was left lying on the bathroom floor, according to the New York Daily News.
Remini claims in the book, which will be released on Tuesday, that the three women were staring at Suri as though she was ‘L Ron Hubbard incarnate’, a rebirth of the religion’s founder.
She writes in her book that she finally convinced the women to pick up Suri, who was still crying, and give her a warm bottle of milk.
After the lavish 2006 Cruise-Holmes wedding, Remini said she shared a ride to the airport with Cruise and Kidman’s adopted kids Bella and Connor.
She asked the pair if they had seen their mother recently.
‘Not if I have a choice,’ Bella said, according to the book. ‘Our mom is a f*****g SP.’
In Scientology terminology, SP is an acronym for Suppressive Person, an enemy of the church.
Speaking with 20/20 of Friday, Remini detailed her years in Scientology and why she decided to leave the religion.
She said that after attending the 2006 wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in Italy, she returned home complaining about the behavior of two high-ranking Church members who she thought needed to be dealt with - Cruise and leader David Miscavige.
'I now see where the cracks are in our Church, and it's David Miscavige. It's Tom Cruise,' Remini said she wrote at the time in a knowledge report.
'They are bringing Scientology down.'
In her upcoming book, she compares the reception to a high school dance.
She claimed Norman Starkey was ‘humping Brooke Shields on the dance floor’ and that Scientology's married Chairman David Miscavige was treating his assistant like they were on a date.
Remini said there were multiple incidents at the wedding that made her upset, including her belief that the Church was trying to recruit her friend Jennifer Lopez.
The King of Queens actress said that she was invited to Cruise's wedding but asked that she bring her best friend J Lo and her husband Marc Antony.
'The Church was really the one who invited them. On Tom’s behalf,' said Remini.
Once Remini and her husband Angelo Pagan arrived the the wedding however with Lopez and Antony, Remini said that she felt they were constantly trying to separate the two women.
Remini claims that they were sat at different tables, and even driven to the venues over the course of the wedding weekend in different cars.
'They were always trying to extract me,' said Remini.
'I could only assume because they wanted to make Jennifer a Scientologist and maybe I was barring that road for them.'
Even more of an issue for Remini however was the absence of her friend Shelly Miscavige, the wife of the Church's leader.
'Shelly was always where David Miscavige was,' Remini explained in the interview.
'It was a wedding of the century… it was like, "where’s Shelly?"'
Making things even more odd was that she could never get an answer when she asked people at the wedding.
'It’s such a simple thing. It’s a big wedding that the leader of the Church is here and his wife isn't. It’s getting weirder because you're making it weirder,' said Remini.
She also recalled how odd she found it when Cruise serenaded his new bride with the song You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' which was featured in his film Top Gun.
'Interesting song to sing to your bride,' said Remini.
That is when she returned home and wrote down why she believed Cruise and Miscavive were the problems with the Church, only to be punished and attacked by members including Katie Holmes.
'I was dismayed at the behavior of Leah Remini during the events leading up to our wedding,' Holmes allegedly wrote in a knowledge report that Remini read during the interview.
'At the wedding, the behavior as a guest, a friend ... was very upsetting.'
Holmes released a statement on Friday saying; 'I regret having upset Leah in the past and wish her only the best in the future.'
Soon after, Remini was sent to the Church's Sea Org facility in Florida for 'reprogramming,' spending every day from 9am to 10pm being audited.
'Basically they were just trying to get me to recant what I said, to apologize for ruining the wedding of the century,' said Remini.
She was billed $300,000 for the treatments.
This was not the first time Remini had been put off by Cruise's behavior, saying that she was also concerned when she saw the things he was doing and saying shortly after he began dating Holmes - starting with when he infamously began jumping up and down on Oprah's couch.
'I’m saying, "I don’t think he’s becoming of a Scientologist, jumping on couches, and attacking Matt Lauer. And attacking Brooke Shields,"' said Remini.
'What the hell is this guy doing? We need to rein it in, we need to stop all this, and he just needs to be an actor.'
Remini continued to have a good relationship with Cruise even after his wedding though, and wrote an apology to Miscavige for the things she said about the church leader accusing herself of 'acting like a complete idiot at the wedding.'
She also continued to rise in the Church, to the point where she reached the level of Operating Thetan 3 and was able to read Scientology's secret scripture, which she described as 'crazy sh*t.'
'It was some galactic confederation. There was a war and there was a volcano and they bodied, you know, they took the spirits of people and they encased them into something, into a volcano, blew them up and then those spirits are now inside of you, on you, in you, like you are made up of these things,' explained Remini.
At this point Remini, who joined Scientology with her mother and sister when she was just 8-years-old, had been a member of the Church for more than 30 years.
She said that the thought of leaving was difficult after seeing how families were separated, with members often choosing the Church over their own flesh and blood.
Remini found out about these separations after going online, something Church members are advised to avoid doing at all times.
'I was heartbroken for myself, for my family. I didn’t want these things to be true,' said Remini.
It was when Holmes finally decided to divorce Cruise that Remini began to get serious about leaving, saying the end of their union brought back memories of what had happened to her after she returned home from their lavish wedding and voiced how upset she was with Church leaders.
Remini said she reached out to former church leader Mike Rinder - a man who is despised by Scientologists - and that soon after the Church came to her home very upset.
The actress had decided after speaking with Rinder to again ask where Shelly Miscavage was, and still she was not getting an answer.
Pagan said that at one point one of the two officials who came to their home called Remini a 'bitch,' and at that point he grabbed the man by the collar.
That is when Remini decided to leave - and her family all willingly left along with her.
'I’m ready to walk away from everybody that I’ve ever known and cut ties with my own husband, my own mother, because you don’t know what they’re going to decide,' Remini said she thought at the time.
'Very often, my experience is people choose the Church.'
Her mother Vicky said there was never a question that family was more important than the Church.
Since leaving the church in 2013, Remini has become an outspoken critic of the religion, and much of her new autobiography, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, is dedicated to her years in the church.
It will be released on November 4.
Remini got her start with guest roles on major shows like Cheers, Saved by the Bell and NYPD Blue before landing the lead on King of Queens.
She filmed over 200 episodes of the show while also starring in films such as Old School.
After Queens ended its run she appeared as a host on The Talk, one Dancing With the Stars and acting on the TV Land show The Exes.
She and her family currently star in the TLC reality show Leah Remini: It's All Relative.
Scientology is also still keeping a close eye on Remini, as witnessed in security footage aired by ABC that showed members of the church dropping off a large packet about the actress at their New York headquarters on Tuesday.
'Leah Remini knows the truth she conveniently rewrites in her revisionist history,' wrote the Church.
'The real story is that she desperately tried to remain a Scientologist in 2013, knowing full well she was on the verge of being expelled for refusing to abide by the high level of ethics and decency Scientologists are expected to maintain.
'Her repeated ethical lapses and callous treatment of others led to an ecclesiastical review which resulted in her being expelled.
'She now regurgitates the tired myths the Church has repeatedly debunked, circulated by the same tiny clique of expelled former staffers bitter at having lost the positions they enjoyed before their malfeasance and unethical conduct were uncovered.
'Ms. Remini is now joined at the hip with this collection of deadbeats, admitted liars, self-admitted perjurers, wife beaters and worse.'
Remini was not surprised by this, admitting that she was a flawed person before her interview began, saying she knew that the Church would come out attacking her.
'I know what my former Church-- how they deal with people who tell their story,' said Remini.
'And so I wanted to be the one to say it.'
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