Leah Remini sues Church of Scientology for alleged stalking and harassment

Leah Remini, former Church of Scientology member and Emmy Award-winning producer and actress, is suing the spiritual establishment and its chief David Miscavige for alleged stalking and harassment.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in California, particulars alleged intimidation, harassment, emotional misery and defamation that Remini has endured because the 2006 nuptials of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, a longtime Scientologist.

The Put up has reached out to reps for Remini and the Church of Scientology for remark.

In courtroom paperwork obtained by The Put up, Remini, 52, claims the church and Miscavige — who has reportedly evaded authorized motion lately — have “undertaken a marketing campaign to spoil and destroy” her life.

The docs allege that the “King of Queens” star has been “stalked, surveilled, harassed, threatened, intimidated, and, furthermore, has been the sufferer of intentional malicious and fraudulent rumors by way of a whole bunch of Scientology-controlled and -coordinated social media accounts that exist solely to intimidate and unfold misinformation” for the final decade.

The paperwork additionally allege that the previous Scientologist, who left the church in 2013, was labeled a “Suppressive Person,” somebody who incurs “critical offenses towards the Scientology religion” and was “declared Honest Sport” by the faith a yr after her departure.

Remini additionally claims that the church has “harassed, threatened, intimidated, and embarrassed” Remini’s household, mates and colleagues, leading to a lack of relationships, contracts and alternatives.

Remini claims the church is barring her from “exercising her First Modification proper and ethical responsibility to talk out about Scientology’s conduct.”

The lawsuit, then, seeks to “get better compensatory and punitive damages for the big financial and psychological hurt” she has endured by the hands of the church.

“After 17 years of harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and defamation, I’m submitting a lawsuit towards Scientology and David Miscavige,” Remini tweeted on Wednesday.

“Whereas advocating for victims of Scientology has considerably impacted my life and profession, Scientology’s ultimate goal of silencing me has not been achieved,” she continued, partly, including that others needs to be “free” to share their experiences with the faith “with out fearing retaliation from a cult with tax exemption and billions in property.”

Remini’s doubts surrounding Scientology seemingly started on the marriage ceremony of Cruise and Holmes — billed throughout the church as “The Wedding ceremony of the Century,” in line with courtroom docs — the place she supposedly questioned the absence of Miscavige’s spouse, Michele, generally known as “Shelley.”

Shelley Miscavige has not been seen within the public eye since 2007 and was reported as lacking by Remini in 2013 upon leaving the faith.

The “Cheers” actress has been an outspoken critic of the church, penning the explosive 2015 memoir “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” and producing the Emmy Award-winning A&E docuseries “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.”

Within the courtroom docs, Remini claimed that the church employed non-public investigators to comply with her through the New York cease of her 2015 guide tour, which the actress stated was so “intimidating” that she feared “for her bodily security.”

Her award-winning docuseries additionally drew criticism from the church, she claimed, and allegedly subjected A&E executives and advertisers to harassment consequently.

Remini alleged that the Church of Scientology enlisted the help of numerous third events to harass and intimidate her. Incidences allegedly occurred as just lately as this yr, when a person with a hammer allegedly smashed her mailbox with the intent to grab her mail.

“The Man within the Household” actress simply celebrated her second yr at New York College, saying on Instagram that she had only received an eighth-grade education resulting from “spending 35 years in a cult.”