"Nicole Kidman was an inspiration to me at the time I left the church,"
Remini tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story that details her dramatic journey from devout Scientologist to disenchanted ex-member and outspoken church critic.
For months, she struggled with her nerve-wracking decision and found solace thinking about how Kidman had eventually thrived after her divorce from Tom Cruise, the church's most high-profile member.
"Knowing that she went on to have a successful and happy life, both personally and professionally, helped to give me confidence," says Remini, whose new tell-all book, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, hits bookstores today.
"She left and she was okay," Remini explains. "Knowing that helped to give me confidence and comfort."
For much more from Remini, including what she says about Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman and more, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
Although Kidman indeed enjoys a full life with husband Keith Urban and their two daughters, Faith, 4, and Sunday Rose, 7, Remini felt for Kidman in the wake of her divorce when, she says, Kidman's children with Cruise, Bella and Connor, who remain devout Scientologists to this day, pulled away from their mother.
Of the perceived rift, Remini tells PEOPLE, "I felt very sad for this family, that they seemed to have been torn apart. That something outside the family had come between a mother and her children."
While Kidman has not commented on Remini's book, the Church of Scientology said in a statement: "The Church and Ms. Kidman have responded in the past to false claims that there was anything wrong with Ms. Cruise's relationship with her mother."
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