Former television actress Leah Remini’s new book has just hit the bookstores and continues to cause uproar and controversy. Her new book is entitled: “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” and it hit the bookshelves of the world on Tuesday. Remini recounts her life in Hollywood as well as her life in the Scientology religion that began when she was only nine years old.

For more than thirty-five years, Remini was a one of Scientology’s faithful, reports USA Today. For the last several years, however, she has become greatly disenchanted with the religion’s leadership and the way in which they have treated members of the church. Remini, 45, has, already appeared on national television about the book having recently done an interview on ABC’s award winning show, 20/20.

Many critics love the book and are hailing it as a courageous coming out for Remini. Her fame made her a treasured insider in the church and, having been a member for over thirty-five years, she understands its workings like few others who have gone public. Going public and talking with “enemies of the church” is greatly frowned upon by Scientology and those that do are put through a rigorous interrogation. Following the interrogations, church leaders will then decide if the member is to be ex-communicated. If ex-communicated, no one, not even the person’s family, are allowed to talk to them or even be in contact with them. They become a “suppressed person.”

Remeni has been ex-communicated and feels the loss of many friends deep in her soul. Friends she has known for years no longer speak to her or even acknowledge her existence. Remini has said that she made the decision to leave with her family. They decided as a family they would stick it out and take what comes from it. The church ex-communicated her for her continuous “ethical lapses”. The church has called her a pathetic figure looking for attention and someone only interested in herself and revisionist history. Those have been some of the nicer things they have said about her.

One of the major reasons the church had become disenchanted with her was her propensity for asking too many questions that church elders felt she wasn’t high enough to be privy to. One of the most damaging questions Remini kept asking is where was her friend Shelly Miscavige, the wife of current Scientology leader David Miscavige.

She has been missing for years and Remini suspects either foul play or Shelly has been sent away to a re-indoctrination facility to be re-educated in the proper ways of the church. After six years of not seeing her friend, Remini filed a missing persons report with the LAPD. The cops told her that everything was fine and that Shelly just didn’t want to be found by anyone at that time.

She also cites Tom Cruise as a reason for leaving the church. Cruise, to the church, is a living god. She tries and remember her friend Nicole Kidman who was a member and married to Cruise. She, like Remini, is now a “suppressed person” who is shunned by all members. Remini knows Kidman is doing well and she is determined to continue to fight the good fight.