The time Cruise berated his assistant for not getting cookie dough when he wanted to make cookies. (She refused to participate because she was wearing Jimmy Choos.) 'At first I thought he was joking, but no, he literally wanted to play hide-and-seek with a bunch of grown-ups in what was probably close to a 7,000-square-foot house on almost three full acres of secluded land,' Remini writes. The time Cruise insisted on playing hide-and-seek with some dinner guests, including other Scientologists as well as Jada Pinkett Smith. 'I had my own theory it was to make sure nothing upset Tom, and if it did, to immediately report it to the church, specifically to David Miscavige.' After one dinner, one of the observers submitted a 'Knowledge Report' to church leaders noting that Remini's husband, Angelo, had made a joke about another celebrity in front of Cruise. 'It was hard to place, but there was an energy in the air, like we were being watched,' Remini writes. Remini's discomfort that two Sea Org members were always present at Tom Cruise's house, even during informal dinner parties. Leah Remini and other stars who quit Scientology (She notes that Kirstie Alley and John Travolta, other Scientology A-listers, were never part of Cruise's entourage because it was rumored that 'Tom didn't like them.') Some of her more eyebrow-raising memories are as follows:

Remini says she was welcomed into Cruise's inner circle after she donated $1 million to the International Association of Scientologists.

There are plenty of anecdotes about Cruise in Troublemaker, but one gets the sense that Remini has enough material in the vault to fill a separate book entirely dedicated to the Mission Impossible star. But in Troublemaker, she lays it all bare, chronicling in painful detail the amount of money and time she donated to the church, only to be blacklisted when she started questioning the organization's techniques and challenging one of its most prominent members, Tom Cruise. Will we ever get to a point where nothing's shocking about the Church of Scientology? Leah Remini's new memoir Troublemaker is proof that we're not there yet.Īfter famously walking away from the church in 2013, having been a member for more than 30 years, Remini has not been shy about exposing what she perceives as abusive behavior from Scientology's leaders.

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