Church of Scientology calls ‘bigot’ Leah Remini’s lawsuit ‘pure lunacy’

The Church of Scientology is responding to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by former member and Emmy-award successful producer, Leah Remini, 53, who’s suing the establishment and its chief, David Miscavige, for alleged stalking and harassment.

In a statement released by the Church of Scientology on Thursday, the group known as the swimsuit “ludicrous” and claimed that the allegations had been “pure lunacy.”

“This lawsuit is ludicrous and the allegations pure lunacy,” the assertion learn. “Remini spreads hate and falsehoods for a decade and is now offended when folks train their proper to free speech, exposing her for what she is—an anti-free speech bigot.”

The message continued: “Remini’s complaints are like an anti-Semite complaining concerning the Jewish Anti-Defamation League for exposing the anti-Semite’s bigotry and propaganda.”

“Remini’s obsession with attacking her former faith, by spreading falsehoods and hate speech, has generated threats of and precise violence in opposition to the Church and its members as evidenced by a number of prison convictions of people poisoned by Remini’s propaganda.”

Within the assertion, the Church additionally claimed that Remini had “delinquent traits” and known as her a “horrible individual,” including that the star had “profited handsomely from her fabrications.”

“If Remini can not get a job, she has no person responsible however herself,” they wrote.

The Put up reached out to representatives for Remini for remark.

In courtroom paperwork obtained by The Put up on Wednesday, Remini’s lawsuit claimed intimidation, harassment, emotional misery and defamation from The Church that had been occurring because the 2006 wedding ceremony of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, who’s a longtime scientologist.

Remini first joined the faith when she was a toddler in 1979, per The Guardian, however left in 2013.

She has been outspoken about her expertise, writing a memoir about it in 2016 and a documentary titled “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” that very same 12 months.

The swimsuit alleged that the “Saved by The Bell” star has been “stalked, surveilled, harassed, threatened, intimidated, and, furthermore, has been the sufferer of intentional malicious and fraudulent rumors through a whole lot of Scientology-controlled and -coordinated social media accounts that exist solely to intimidate and unfold misinformation” for the final decade.

Remini additionally claimed that The Church of Scientology had “harassed, threatened, intimidated, and embarrassed” her household and buddies, which had resulted in a lack of jobs and alternatives.

Within the paperwork, she alleged that that they had even labeled her as a “Suppressive Individual,” somebody who had carried out “critical offenses” in opposition to the religion.

She is seeking to “get well compensatory and punitive damages for the large financial and psychological hurt” that she has suffered due to the Church.

On Wednesday, the day that she had filed, the star took to X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter, to issue a further statement concerning the swimsuit.

“Whereas this lawsuit is about what Scientology has carried out to me, I’m one in every of 1000’s of targets of Scientology over the previous seven a long time,” she wrote, partly.

“With this lawsuit, I hope to guard the rights afforded to them and me by the Structure of the USA to talk the reality and report the details about Scientology with out worry of vicious and vindictive retribution, of which most don’t have any technique to battle again.”