Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Tom Cruise's tantrum so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read Troublemaker, Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini.

Joining us to discuss the celebrity cult memoir is Angie Manfredi, librarian, writer, and a grudging Tom Cruise fan.

Welcome back, Angie.

It's been a minute.

It's always a pleasure.

Thanks for having me back again.

Thrilled to have this beautiful topic to discuss with you.

By the way, we should mention it is Celebrity Memoir May, of course, which is a, I'm sure it's on everyone's calendar, Celebrity Memo Morme, the very real and not made up

observation that we try to do in May.

Yes, absolutely.

This was a fun choice, too, because I'm not sure if Angie was aware that Renata and I,

well, now she is because we talked about it before the show,

but Renata and I, as we may have mentioned on the show before, are part of a book club within a

book club that is also known as Colt Club or Cafton Club, where we talk about cults. And one of our very first meetings was about Scientology.

And because it was one of our first meetings, we did like a deep dive.

And so we are always, I, Caitlin, am always excited to read about a cult, especially Scientology.

But this felt like a good pick.

Well, and Angie knew because she had, I'm pretty sure you were the one who invited me to

this secret Facebook group that's for, what's the name of it?

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