Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise 'left baby Suri to cry on the bathroom floor' and Top Gun star's adopted kids won't speak to Nicole Kidman for leaving Scientology, Leah Remini exposé claims
Daily Mail, UK/October 31, 2015
By Chris Spargo
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.
'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 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.'
Church of Scientology Response To ABC About Leah Remini Interview
'Leah Remini has become what she once declared she never wanted to be known as: “this bitter ex-Scientologist.” As USA Today wrote, Ms. Remini is “as famous for being an ex-Scientologist as she is as an actress.” 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.
'Sadly, bitterness and anger are common threads through Ms. Remini’s life. Rather than take responsibility for self-inflicted problems, she is quick to blame others. When her firing from The Talk erupted into a public embarrassment for her in 2012, we tried to help pick her up off the floor. But she treated everyone around her in a degrading, bullying manner. Her behavior was intolerable.
'Leah Remini knows the truth she conveniently rewrites in her revisionist history. 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.
'Ms. Remini also continues her bizarre efforts to harass the Church of Scientology’s leader and his wife, whom Ms. Remini has been obsessed with for years. This culminated in her dishonest, fraudulent report filed in 2013 with the Los Angeles Police Department that was declared “unfounded” and closed within hours of it becoming public. When a person makes disingenuous reports to law enforcement -- wasting valuable resources needed to protect the public -- they are irresponsible and untrustworthy.
'Scientology is the only major religion to be founded in the 20th century and emerge as a major religion in the 21st century. The Church has grown more in the past decade than in its first 50 years combined under the ecclesiastical leadership of Mr. Miscavige, a visionary parishioners and Church staff hold in the highest regard for carrying out the legacy of the Scientology Founder through the renaissance the religion is now experiencing. Mr. Miscavige works tirelessly for the parishioners and their benefit and to aid millions through sponsorship and participation in global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs. The real story of the Church of Scientology, what it does, its beliefs and practices, is available at www.scientology.org.'
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