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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
by Leah Remini
[4.5 Stars]
I read this after reading Mike Rinder's A Billion Years and was glad I did. I didn't know much about Leah Remini as an actress, but after hearing Mr. Rinder talk about her speaking up at a wedding (....Tom Cruises wedding) asking where the COB David Miscaivage's wife, Shelly, was I had an interest in her life in Scientology.
I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. While her early years in Hollywood weren't what I came to the book for, they were interesting to hear about and I really enjoyed listening to her narrate them.
What I loved most about this book was hearing the other side of the Scientology coin from Mike Rinder's book. You get to see Scientology through the lense of someone who starts out as an average parishoner before reaching status deemed worthy enough to be a part of Scientology's Hollywood Celebrity Center. You get to follow along on the journey of someone who grew up outside of the church and was sucked in and how she continued to stay there. You also get to see the other sides of events that Mike Rinder describes which I thought was really interested to hear both consistency and new perspectives.
I read this after reading Mike Rinder's A Billion Years and was glad I did. I didn't know much about Leah Remini as an actress, but after hearing Mr. Rinder talk about her speaking up at a wedding (....Tom Cruises wedding) asking where the COB David Miscaivage's wife, Shelly, was I had an interest in her life in Scientology.
I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. While her early years in Hollywood weren't what I came to the book for, they were interesting to hear about and I really enjoyed listening to her narrate them.
What I loved most about this book was hearing the other side of the Scientology coin from Mike Rinder's book. You get to see Scientology through the lense of someone who starts out as an average parishoner before reaching status deemed worthy enough to be a part of Scientology's Hollywood Celebrity Center. You get to follow along on the journey of someone who grew up outside of the church and was sucked in and how she continued to stay there. You also get to see the other sides of events that Mike Rinder describes which I thought was really interested to hear both consistency and new perspectives.