Leah Remini Isn't Finished Talking About Katie Holmes

Leah Remini’s new book is out on Nov. 3 (Ballantine Books)

You didn’t think Leah Remini was finished talking about Katie Holmes, did you?

Following her dishy interview with 20/20, the King of Queens alum was on Good Morning America Monday to promote her new book, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, and the topic again turned to Holmes, whom Remini claimed tattled on her to church officials when they were both members. It caused Remini to shed some tears.

When Holmes’s statement from the 20/20 interview was reread — “I regret having upset Leah in the past and wish her only the best in the future,” Tom Cruise’s ex-wife said — Remini became emotional.

“I’m smiling because it almost makes me want to cry,” she said on the morning news show. “It makes me emotional because at the time that Katie and this particular crew were writing reports, it caused me a lot of time and pain in my family, being reprogrammed. So at the time I was fighting with her — I guess for the lack of the better word — within the church, and now I know really what she was going through.”

Katie Holmes with her daughter, Suri, at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival in NYC in September (Getty Images)

Remini said that she is relieved that Holmes was able to pull off a sneak attack divorce from Cruise in 2012 and break from the church with her daughter, Suri, now 9.

“At the time I was thinking of myself and my family and what we were going through, I had no idea that she was going through probably a lot more,” she confessed. "Looking back now and seeing her and Suri out there in the world and her being able to be with her daughter and live her life, I’m touched by it, because I know now she did what she did, leaving in the way that she did, because she had to protect her daughter, which in a way connects us now.”

Remini, who left the church in 2013 after being a member for nearly three decades, said she relates to Holmes in a new way.

“It’s really because we both left that we’re able to have this kind of grace towards each other because we’re back to being human,” she said.

While Remini has kind words for Holmes, she has some unkind ones for Cruise, whom she claims seems to be running the church. The New York Daily News obtained an advance copy of Remini’s tell-all and it includes some juicy tales related to the Cruise-Holmes wedding back in 2006.

Tom Cruise, Holmes, and baby Suri at the pre-wedding dinner in Italy (Getty Images)

At a pre-wedding dinner, Remini said Suri, who was then 7 months old, was wailing in another room for several minutes. Nobody seemed concerned, but she was and followed the cries. She found the baby lying on the floor of a bathroom, where three women — including Cruise’s sister and his assistant — stood over her. Remini said the women were staring at the hungry baby as if she was “L. Ron Hubbard incarnate,” a reference to the late Scientology founder.

She said that Holmes was 20 minutes late to the nuptials, which took place in an Italian castle. Her late arrival made guests uncomfortable, including Jennifer Lopez, the daughter of a Scientologist, who asked Remini, “Do you think Katie is coming?”

Holmes, photographed just before her wedding, was 20 minutes late to the ceremony, causing guests, including Jennifer Lopez, to become uncomfortable (Getty Images)

At the wedding reception, Norman Starkey, the Scientologist who officiated Tom and Katie’s ceremony, was “humping Brooke Shields on the dance floor.” Shields, who is married, attended the wedding as a make nice after Cruise’s infamous postpartum depression rant. It’s unclear whether or not Shields appreciated the humping.

Finally, after the wedding, Remini traveled to the airport with Cruise’s daughter Bella. Making chitchat, she asked if the girl had seen her mother, Nicole Kidman, recently.

“Not if I have a choice,” was Bella’s reply, according to the newspaper. “Our mom is a f–king SP.” A “SP” is a “Suppressed Person,” according to church lingo, and they are looked at as enemies. It has long been rumored that Bella and her brother Connor view their mother that way.

The last time Nicole Kidman was photographed with her children Connor and Bella at an event was in 2004 (Getty Images)

The church has issued several lengthy statements about Remini’s book, but we’ll sum them all up in a few words: They don’t like it.

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology will be released on Tuesday.