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At the Creative Arts Emmys in La over the weekend, Leah Remini won the the award for outstanding informational series or special for her groundbreaking docuseries about the Church of Scientology, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. While accepting her exciting award, the 47-year-old actress was overcome with emotion while discussing the stories featured in the show as well as her own painful history with the "church." Leah first dedicated the award to the show's "brave contributors," saying, "It's not an easy job, but they were the ones putting their stories out there for everyone to hear. And we are honored to be the vessel to tell these stories. It's about doing the right thing. This doesn't belong to me, it belongs to our contributors." The actress, who was raised in the church before leaving in 2013, then thanked her mother, Vicki Marshall, who was in attendance. "Mom, thank you," she said.

The saga continues. Leah Remini, who famously exited the Church of Scientology in 2013, is producing a Scientology TV series drama for A&E, EW reports. The King of Queens star's most recent series role was Nicki, on The Exes TV show, which was cancelled in 2015, after four seasons on TV Land. She also played Terry Baumgardner on Family Tools, which was cancelled in 2013, after two weeks, although ABC did burn off all 10 episodes produced.After Remini left Scientology, she and her family did a TLC reality series, Leah Remini: It's All Relative, which ran for two seasons, before being cancelled. Her mother, Vicki Marshall, reared Remini and her older sister Nicole in the faith, since childhood. On November 3, 2015, Ballantine Books released her memoir, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood...

When Leah Remini made the momentous decision to leave the Church of Scientology in 2013, she knew it wasn’t going to be easy.

The former King of Queens actress, 45, had been introduced to the religion by her mother at the age of 8, and had been a member for 35 years. As a teen, she even spent a year living – and doing manual labor, including cleaning hotel rooms – at the church’s Sea Org headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, which is reserved for Scientology’s most dedicated members.

"I've been given a second chance at life and so has my family," Remini says.

Leah Remini made waves in 2013 when she publicly broke with Scientology, the church in which she was raised, and she still has insight to share from her experience cutting ties with the controversial organization.

In an exclusive preview from her new TLC reality series, Leah Remini: It's All Relative, the actress talks with some fellow former Scientologists about her motivations for leaving and the complications she says resulted.

"If you make a stink in the public world, they call you a suppressive person, which means the church has put a stamp on you that says you are bad," says the former King of Queens star,...