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Leah Remini made shocking claims about her family Tuesday morning in an interview on The View.

Host Joy Behar read from Remini's new book Troublemaker in which the actress writes; 'I am selfish and self-centered ... have physically threatened people ... my husband is a serial cheater and my mother was a slut.'

Remini then acknowledged she wrote all these things, implying that she wanted to say them before she and those close to her were attacked by members of the Church.

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Appearance: Leah Remini appeared on The View Tuesday where Joy Behar read from her book Troublemaker

On the move: Remini is seen leaving a taping of The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday in New York City

She worried about losing it all: Leah Remini feared she would lose her family after renouncing Scientology, pictured with husband Angelo Pagan in Beverly Hills in June

'It was the 70s and she was doing drugs at the time,' said Remini of her comment about her mother. 

Host Michelle Collins then jokingly pointed out that maybe she was saying it in a nice way, to which Remini responded; 'Exactly!' 

Remini then explained of her decision; "Well, I know the policy of the church when someone speaks out publicly against them. I know how they deal with people like me.

'So they would take something out of context or in my confessions and out that out on the street.'

She then said of the Church; 'You're OK to leave, just don't talk about it. That's why it was important for me. 

'I could have left and after reading hundreds of stories of heartbreak I was like, "OK I'm not crazy this is happening to other people." 

'I figured they needed to know that this was happening to other people and I that I had to take the step forward and go public.'

The comments about her husband Angelo may reflect the fact that he was reportedly still in a relationship when the pair first met.

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'I was given a second chance': The actress seen with her family in her TLC reality series Leah Remini: It's All Relative

Remini has also revealed that she feared she would lose her family after renouncing Scientology.

The 45-year-old says she worried that her husband Angelo Pagan and her mother Vicki Marshall would not speak to her after she left the religious group, in a new interview with People.

But the actress was proven wrong as both Pagan and Marshall followed her out of the Church in 2013.

'They simply put family ahead of the Church, which is oftentimes not the case with Scientology families,' the King Of Queens star said. 

'I've been given a second chance,' she added. 

Opening up: Remini's autobiography Troublemaker was released Tuesday

Remini was raised in the religion by her mother since the age of eight and only in her early forties did she decide to leave. 

Prior to becoming an apostate, the actress was a dedicated member and as a teenager even spent a year in the Church's elite Sea Org headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, performing manual labor.

Since renouncing the religious movement, Remini has been outspoken in her criticism of the Church (Scientology has denied all allegations made by the actress).

Now the star has a book detailing her experience within the controversial religious group, titled Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood And Scientology. 

'It wasn’t an easy thing to do,' she told People. 'It's about me being flawed.' 

She also spoke about Nicole Kidman in her interview.

'Nicole Kidman was an inspiration to me at the time I left the church,' said Remini.

'Knowing that she went on to have a successful and happy life, both personally and professionally, helped to give me confidence.'

She then added; 'She left and she was okay. Knowing that helped to give me confidence and comfort.'

In the book she also offers an inside glimpse of Tom Cruise and other celebrity Scientologists.

It is not all negative either, as Remini appeared on Howard Stern Tuesday and spoke about how much she loves John Travolta, who she called a 'sweetheart.' 

Meanwhile, Remini recently fought back tears during an emotional interview with ABC News while talking about her decision to leave Scientology - and how she now understands why Katie Holmes also left the Church.

Remini told Amy Robach that she did not want her 11-year-old daughter Sofia to have to choose between her family and the Church, a decision she believes that Holmes also made for her daughter Suri.

'I know now she did what she did because she had to protect her daughter, which in a way connects us,' Remini said of Holmes.

She then said of Sofia: 'I didn't want my daughter to choose the Church.' 

Remini, 45, also detailed the 'fighting' that went on between her and Holmes after the actress wrote a knowledge report about Remini following her 2006 wedding to Cruise.

'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 an interview with 20/20 that aired on Friday.

'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.'

Remini got choked up while Robach read Holmes' statement to her, saying: 'At the time I was fighting with her - I guess for the lack of a better word - within the Church and now I know really what she was going through because at the time I was thinking of myself and my family and what we were going through.'

She then added: 'I had no idea she was going through probably a lot more.'

Holmes and Cruise split in 2012 and the actress and her daughter both left the Church.

Remini also called Scientology an 'extremist religion' in her interview to promote her autobiography Troublemaker, which will be released this week.

Despite her criticism of people within the Church however, Remini said that Scientology did help her in many ways growing up, and gave her confidence.

Plan: Remini said that when she was invited to Tom Cruise's 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes she was asked to bring her friend Jennifer Lopez (pair above with Marc Anthony and Pagan at the nuptials)

Hard at work: Members of the Church were seen on surveillance video dropping off documents attacking Remini last Tuesday at ABC headquarters

Trouble: The alleged knowledge report submitted by Holmes about Remini following her wedding to Tom Cruise

ABC News revealed that the Church had sent them numerous documents and complaints about Remini, including one that said she had been expelled from the Church and did not in fact leave of her own volition.

Remini also discussed her relationship with Cruise within the Church once again, and how nervous she would feel around the actor.

'There seemed to be a lot of power there,' Remini said of Cruise's role in Scientology.

She said it was difficult however loosening up around Cruise, and that she was afraid to do things like drink around the actor.

'I mean if I'm at dinner, you know, we're going to dinner together, you're not going to write an internal church report on me that you thought I got a little tipsy at your dinner party,' said Remini.

'And have to deal with that financially within your church.'

Remini had previously revealed that it cost her $300,000 to get 'reprogrammed' after Church members including Holmes complained about her in knowledge reports following Cruise's wedding.

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.

Remini has said that 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.

She said that she was invited to Cruise's wedding but asked that she bring her best friend J.Lo and her then-husband Marc Anthony.

'The Church was really the one who invited them. On Tom’s behalf,' said Remini in her 20/20 interview.

Once Remini and her husband Angelo Pagan arrived at the wedding however with Lopez and Anthony, 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.'

LEAH REMINI'S SCIENTOLOGY BOMBSHELLS

Oct. 25 - In a preview for her 20/20 interview to promote her book Troublemaker, Leah Remini claims; 'Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself… you are evil.' She also says of the Church; 'As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world.'

Oct. 29 - In another preview for her 20/20 interview, Remini reveals she left the Church for her daughter Sophia, saying; 'I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything, your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.'

Oct. 30 - Remini details an alleged plot by Scientology to recruit her best friend Jennifer Lopez at Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes, and also reveals that Holmes criticized her behavior after the event in a knowledge report. As a result of that report and others, Remini says she had to pay $300,000 to go take classes at Scientology's Sea Org campus and be 'reprogrammed.' That same day Holmes apologizes to Remini in a statement sent to ABC before the 20/20 interview airs, saying; 'I regret having upset Leah in the past and wish her only the best in the future.'

Nov. 1 - A passage from Remini's book obtained by the New York Daily News reveals that when Remini asked Bella Cruise if she ever got to see her mother Nicole Kidman while they drove to the airport from Cruise's wedding, the teenager allegedly replied; 'Not if I have a choice. Our mom is a f***ing SP.' Remini also details seeing Suri Cruise cry on a bathroom floor the night before Cruise's wedding while his sister and assistant looked on like the baby was 'L. Ron Hubbard incarnate.'

Nov. 2 - In an ABC News interview airing on Good Morning America, Remini fights back tears as Holmes' apology is read aloud to her. She then says of Holmes' divorce and decision to leave the Church with daughter Suri; 'I know now she did what she did because she had to protect her daughter, which in a way connects us.' Later in the interview she calls Scientology an 'extremist religion.'

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.

In her book - which will be released on Wednesday - Remini also claims that Cruise's children attacked their mother Nicole Kidman while at their father's wedding.

The New York Daily News reports that Remini writes in one passage about driving with Connor and Bella Cruise to the airport and asking if the two had seen their mother recently.

'Not if I have a choice,' said Bella, according to Remini.

'Our mom is a f***ing SP.'

An 'SP' is a suppressed person and used to identify those who are not in the Church and enemies of Scientology.

Remini also claims that during the wedding festivities Suri was left crying on the floor of the bathroom as Cruise's sister and assistant just stared at the baby as if she were 'L. Ron Hubbard incarnate' - despite the fact that she was just seven-months-old at the time.

After Remini's interview with 20/20 aired her husband Angelo Pagan - who joined the Church after the two began dating - wrote on Twitter; 'Free at last free at last thank god almighty.'

Troublemaker: Remini was attacked for asking about the absence of her friend Shelly Miscavige (above), the wife of the Church's leader, at Cruise's wedding

Awful: Remini claims in her book that Bella Cruise (far right with brother Connor and mom Nicole in 2004) attacked her mother for being an 'SP' after Cruise's wedding to Holmes

Since leaving the church in 2013, Remini has become an outspoken critic of the religion, and much of her new autobiography, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, is dedicated to her years in the church.

Remini got her start with guest roles on major shows like Cheers, Saved by the Bell and NYPD Blue before landing the lead on King of Queens.

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, on Dancing With the Stars and acted 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 last week that showed members of the church dropping off a large packet about the actress at its 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,' Remini said on 20/20.

'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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