Leah Remini left the Church of Scientology on June 2013, after more than 30 years of practice. In a new in-depth interview with BuzzFeed, Remini revealed that the religion's cult like practices and child indoctrination process were some of the reasons she renounced the belief.

In 2013, PageSix reported that Remini had quit The Church of Scientology after allegedly being subjected to years of "interrogations" and "thought modification" for questioning leader David Miscavige's rule.

A major reason the "King of Queens" actress departed from the faith was her 9-year-old daughter, Sofia. Remini stateed in the interview how hard it was for her as a child being raised up in Scientology and she did not want to subject her daughter to the same things she had to endure.

"I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist," Remini said before going into detail.

"We went from a middle-class lifestyle [in Brooklyn, N.Y.] to living in a roach-infested motel with six other girls off a freeway in Clearwater," Remini reminisced of the time when her family moved to the church's compound in Florida, before her 10th birthday. "We were separated from our mother. We had to sign billion-year contracts we didn't understand. And we kept saying, 'Why are you doing this to us? Why are we here?'"

Remini said her early days at the church consisted of "working from morning until night with barely any schooling." At 13-years-old her mother allowed her to drop out of school. "She didn't feel like I was missing out on a real education," Remini said. "The only thing that mattered was that we were taking courses (in the church) - and not taking drugs."

She said she did whatever the church asked of her growing up. "If the church needed a ballroom wall knocked down, you made it happen because there were heavy repercussions if you didn't," Remini continued. "And although that was horrendous for a child to deal with, at the same time, it gave me my work ethic."

She then mentioned that her daughter was coming of age in which the religion begins to question the children. "She was getting to the age where the acclimation into the Church would have to start," Remini exposed that the process begins with assessing a child and included having children answer many different inquiries.

"I started thinking of my own childhood and how I grew up resenting my mother because she was never home," Remini explained. "It's funny; somehow my father, the guy who left his kids and never paid child support, was excluded from my resentment and I grew up resenting my mother for not being home to make food, like all my friends' moms were. But my mom thought she was doing something good; she thought she was helping the planet. That's what the Church tells you."

Scientology underlines a "Church First" mind set, which went against Remini's personal convictions. "In my house, it's family first - but I was spending most of my time at the Church," she added. "So, I was saying 'family first,' but I wasn't showing that. I didn't like the message that sent my daughter."

She went on to say "In the Church, you're taught that everybody is lost, They say they're loving, caring, non-judgmental people, but secretly, they were judging the world for not believing what they believed. To me, that is not a spiritual person. That's a judgmental person and that is the person that I was. I was a hypocrite, and the worst thing you can be in this world is a hypocrite."

She explained, "your mindset is to wake up early and go to the Church every single day. There's a lot of work required to retain your place in the Church," she did not want that life for her family.

Upon news of Remini leaving the church, she said all her Scientology friends were forced to cut ties with her. The 43-year-old actress spent a lot of her time, hysterically crying as friend after friend abandoned her for doing what she considered "the right thing." Church member Kirstie Alley even publicly called her "repulsive" and "a bigot" during an interview on Howard Stern's show for leaving the organization.

Although friend after friend shunned the actress, one important church member took Remini's side. "The fact my mother stood by me after all her years in the Church totally took away any resentment I may have been harboring," she told BuzzFeed. Adding, "When it mattered the most, my mother was there for me. It was the moment that erased all those days she wasn't there. That moment proved to me she was with me. 'Ride or Die.'"

The New York born actress said she has since re-evaluated her own beliefs in the aftershock of such a huge life change as leaving the church she has been a part of for decades. She said she has regained her spirituality, with help from her best friend Jennifer Lopez.

She has begun listening to affirmation tapes. One particular exercise requires Remini to look in a mirror and say, "I love you, Leah. You're doing the best you can do." Remini laughing hysterically at herself typically follows that, does it every day. "Jennifer made special rings for all the women in her life that say, 'I Love Me," and I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to," Remini added. "You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it."

Watch a clip of Leah Remini Discussing her departure with Ellen Degeneres below: