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Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Ballantine
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
256 pages ISBN: 110188696X EAN: 9781101886960 Kindle: B015BCX0JY Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality
television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir,
including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous
and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the
Church of Scientology. Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That
willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle
the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from
Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in
Hollywood. But being a troublemaker has come at a cost. That was never more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly
and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Now, in
this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the former King of
Queens star opens up about that experience for the first
time, revealing the in-depth details of her painful split
with the church and its controversial practices. Indoctrinated into the church as a child while living with
her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved
to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and
advancing Scientology’s causes grew increasingly
intertwined. As an adult, she found the success she’d worked
so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy
of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as Tom
Cruise, Scientology’s most high-profile adherent. Remini
spent time directly with Cruise and was included among the
guests at his 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes. But when she began to raise questions about some of the
church’s actions, she found herself a target. In the end,
she was declared by the church to be a threat to their
organization and therefore a “Suppressive Person,” and as a
result, all of her fellow parishioners—including members of
her own family—were told to disconnect from her. Forever. Bold, brash, and bravely confessional, Troublemaker
chronicles Leah Remini’s remarkable journey toward emotional
and spiritual freedom, both for herself and for her family.
This is a memoir designed to reveal the hard-won truths of a
life lived honestly—from an author unafraid of the consequences.
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