Of course, Remini has never been one to hold back, not when discussing her complicated break from Scientology and not when it came to her and Pagán’s love story. Which, she emphasized in her book, was not a love story.
“I mean, it’s a story about love,” she wrote, “just not the kind that you hope to tell your kids one day.”
Because, she detailed in her memoir, not long after they first got together, Pagán admitted to Remini that he wasn’t separated from his wife, as she thought he was.
“‘I’m a cheater—and not just with you,'” she recalled him telling her. “‘I have been a cheater my whole life.'”
Her response? “This guy is so f–ked-up, he’s perfect for me!” His (eventual) honesty made her love him even more, she noted. But he also had issues, so she introduced him to Scientology and he signed up for a course. She liked that he was a “normal guy” from outside the church, she wrote, but also “someone who could quickly get with the program and get with Scientology.”
