Leah Remini might name TOM CRUISE to offer proof at Scientology trial over claims church tormented her

Actress Leah Remini might name Tom Cruise as a witness as a part of a brand new lawsuit she has introduced in opposition to the Church of Scientology.

Remini, 53, argued in a suit filed this month that she was allegedly psychologically punished by the Church after asking about its chief’s lacking spouse at Tom Cruise‘s marriage ceremony to Katie Holmes in 2006.

The spouse of chief David Miscavige, Michele ‘Shelly’ Miscavige, has been lacking for 16 years. Remini, a former Scientologist herself, has been vocal about her disappearance and reported it to the LAPD when she left the Church in 2013.

Cruise is an outspoken advocate of Scientology and one among its most high-profile members, having attained the highly effective rank of Working Thetan.

If he’s known as to a trial, it might show vastly embarrassing for each the highly-bankable film star and the notoriously secretive faith he practices.  

Remini claims within the swimsuit that he’s on the very coronary heart of the establishment, as a ‘greatest good friend’ of Miscavige and ‘primarily second in command’. 

She alleges that after questioning the whereabouts of Shelly at Cruise’s marriage ceremony she was held at a Scientology facility for 4 months and put by way of a course of that ‘almost led her to have a psychotic breakdown’.

Actress Leah Remini, 53, might name Tom Cruise as a witness in her upcoming lawsuit in opposition to the Church of Scientology, in keeping with a supply with information of the case

The actress allegedly requested questions concerning the lacking spouse of Miscavige, who has not been seen for 17 years after she did not attend Tom Cruise’s marriage ceremony in 2006

A supply with information of the case told The New York Post: ‘I feel that Leah will name Tom to be a witness. She claims that she was abused after his marriage ceremony, so why would not she name him? He is part of this.’

Remini was launched to it by way of her mother and father and joined as a younger teenager. She turned part of it is interior circle, generally known as the ‘Sea Group’, by allegedly signing one among its ‘million-year contracts’.

She claims that since leaving in 2013 and reporting Shelly’s disappearance, the Church has allegedly responded to her dissent with intimidation – working Twitter accounts attacking her popularity and hiring people to stalk her in LA.

Miscavige himself has been lacking for greater than six months, in keeping with legal professionals bringing human trafficking motion in opposition to him.

Courtroom paperwork present that she is accusing the Church of Scientology for ‘civil harassment, stalking, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional misery, intentional interference with potential financial benefit.’ 

She has filed eight counts in opposition to them in her lawsuit, and is asking for punitive and compensatory damages to be confirmed at trial. 

The swimsuit can also be asking for ‘damages for the disruption of contractual relationships and misplaced enterprise alternatives’ for an undisclosed quantity. 

It claims that she was held on the non secular HQ of Scientology – the Flag constructing – and was ‘put by way of a course of that value her a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} and almost led her to have a psychotic breakdown.’

‘David Miscavige subsequently acknowledged that it was mistaken to have subjected Ms. Remini to the Fact Rundown and returned at the very least a few of her cash’, the submitting claims. 

‘Ms. Remini was made to make ‘amends’ at Flag not solely to David Miscavige however to Tom Cruise. For instance, she was pressured to donate cash to call a seat in a theater after Suri Cruise and was to boost cash for donation to Scientology causes led by Tom Cruise.

‘After stories of horrible abuse emerged from Scientology’s worldwide base, Golden Period Productions, in Riverside County, Remini endured one other six months of punishment for trying on the Web and asking questions concerning the abuse.’

Remini claims that she needed to rent bodyguards for her e book tour after being ‘bodily adopted’ by individuals she says labored for the church. 

Remini additionally claims that Scientology operated Twitter accounts make numerous ‘unsubstantiated claims’, together with one slamming her for her help of Paul Haggis, a fellow former Scientologist later convicted of rape 

David Miscavige, who’s now additionally lacking, is the topic of a number of lawsuits from former Scientologists, however he has by no means been bodily reached to be served with any paperwork

She has filed eight counts in opposition to them in her lawsuit, and is asking for punitive and compensatory damages to be confirmed at trial

She alleges that they despatched ‘disparaging and threatening letters’ to those that had been selling her e book. 

The paperwork additionally declare that celebrities who’re energetic Scientologists had been ‘drilled’ on how one can assault Remini’s credibility by calling her a ‘felony’. 

A gathering was allegedly organized in early 2018, and people who attended had been handed a doc for ‘speaking factors’ written by the Church.  

DailyMail.com contacted the Church of Scientology for remark, however didn’t instantly obtain a response. 

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

Her lawsuit claims that Scientology wrote letters to advertisers and sponsors of Remini’s sequence ‘The Aftermath’, together with Disney, Yahoo, Nissan, Coca-Cola, Nestle, and Expedia.

They’re additionally accused within the lawsuit of ‘harassing’ whistleblowers and former Scientologists who agreed to go on the present, in addition to employees and their relations. 

It states: ‘Brokers of Scientology who falsely declare to be journalists additionally name these people to solicit false details about Ms. Remini for Scientology’s assault web sites in opposition to her.

Shelly Miscavige has not been seen since 2007 when she attended her father’s funeral

Leah Remini reported Shelly lacking after she left the Church of Scientology in 2013. She says the LAPD has made her really feel ‘loopy’ for 10 years for searching for her lacking good friend 

David Miscavige, 62, has been avoiding being served a lawsuit introduced forth by former Sea Org members for at the very least 4 months. Attorneys have tried to serve him 27 instances throughout numerous Scientology headquarters to no avail and his whereabouts are unknown 

‘In 2016, Defendants, nicely conscious of the falsehoods being leveled at Ms. Remini, accused Ms. Remini in tweets and on their web sites of inflicting a person named Brandon Reisdorf, whose mother and father had been former Scientologists, to throw a rock by way of a window on the Los Angeles workplace of Scientology. 

‘Mr. Reisdorf, who was pressured to disconnect from his brother and fogeys, was within the midst of a psychological well being disaster. Scientology insurance policies ban any kind of psychiatric or psychological therapy’.

Courtroom paperwork additionally declare that Scientology has accused Remini of inciting the homicide of Taiwanese Scientologist, Chih-Jen Yeh, 24, in its Australian headquarters.

The swimsuit provides that she was allegedly stalked by two personal investigators, together with a former Nassau County Lieutenant. 

Her lawsuit additionally claims that Scientologists paid a person with ‘a historical past of psychological sickness and a violent felony document’ to stalk her at her LA residence. 

She additionally accuses them of hiring Talon Government Providers to put in ‘free safety and surveillance’ at her neighbors residence to ‘spy’ on her.

They’re additionally accused of recruiting a person to steal her mail, in addition to claiming that they harasses Remini’s relations and former workers in addition to their kin.

In keeping with the court docket paperwork they pose as ‘freelance reporters’ who’re writing a narrative on how Remini is ‘abusive to her household and associates’.

Courtroom paperwork additionally declare that Scientology has accused Remini of inciting the homicide of Taiwanese Scientologist, Chih-Jen Yeh, 24, in its Australian headquarters 

The grievance states: ‘This decade-long, coordinated harassment of Ms. Remini, in addition to her associates, household, and enterprise acquaintances, has triggered extreme emotional misery to Ms. Remini, has made her concern for her bodily security and that of her household, and has triggered the lack of enterprise alternatives.’

Remini additionally claims that Scientology operated Twitter accounts make ‘unsubstantiated claims’ that she is ‘abusive to her daughter’ and calls her a ‘c*** on a regular basis’.

The swimsuit states that Remini misplaced present and potential enterprise contracts and alternatives due to the alleged ‘incessant harassment’.

It claims that she misplaced a podcast with iHeartRadio, audio gross sales with Audioboom, and her Folks Puzzler present didn’t get renewed for a fourth season – due to ‘harassment’ by the Church.

Remini additionally states within the swimsuit that she was dropped by ID/PR, her leisure publicity agency, as a part of a marketing campaign in opposition to them’.

In an announcement, Remini stated: ‘After 17 years of harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and defamation, I’m submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Scientology and David Miscavige.

‘Whereas advocating for victims of Scientology has considerably impacted my life and profession, Scientology’s closing goal of silencing me has not been achieved. 

The paperwork additionally declare that celebrities who’re energetic Scientologists had been ‘drilled’ on how one can assault Remini’s credibility by calling her a ‘felony’ 

‘Whereas this lawsuit is about what Scientology has achieved to me, I’m one among 1000’s of targets of Scientology over the previous seven a long time. 

‘Individuals who share what they’ve skilled in Scientology, and people who inform their tales and advocate for them, needs to be free to take action with out fearing retaliation from a cult with tax exemption and billions in belongings.

‘The press has a proper to report about Scientology with out going through a complicated intelligence operation from Scientology to destroy their private lives and their careers. 

‘Regulation enforcement authorities have a proper to analyze crimes in Scientology with out concern that they’ll lose their jobs.

‘Youngsters, moms, fathers, aunts, and uncles have a proper to request welfare checks on their relations with out concern of an operation activated in opposition to them by Scientology for doing so. 

‘These within the leisure enterprise ought to have a proper to inform jokes and tales with out going through an operation from Scientology which makes use of its assets in Hollywood to destroy their lives and careers. 

‘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 information about Scientology with out concern of vicious and vindictive retribution, of which most don’t have any method to combat again.’