By EMMA JAMES, SENIOR REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Remini, 53, argues in the suit, first reported on by Yashar Ali on his Substack, The Reset, that she was targeted after speaking out against the Church after asking about their leader’s missing wife at Tom Cruise‘s wedding to Katie Holmes.
The Kings of Queens actress allegedly asked the whereabouts of Michele ‘Shelley’ Miscavige, who has not been seen for 17 years after she failed to attend the nuptials in 2006.
Miscavige, who is now also missing, is the subject of multiple lawsuits from former Scientologists, but he has never been physically reached to be served with any paperwork.
Remini’s lawsuit claims that the ‘campaign to destroy’ her ramped up after she left the church in 2013.
Court documents show that she is accusing the Church of Scientology for ‘civil harassment, stalking, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.’
She has filed eight counts against them in her lawsuit, and is asking for punitive and compensatory damages to be proven at trial.
The suit is also asking for ‘damages for the disruption of contractual relationships and lost business opportunities’ for an undisclosed amount.
It claims that she was held at the spiritual HQ of Scientology – the Flag building – and was ‘put through a process that cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars and nearly led her to have a psychotic breakdown.
‘David Miscavige subsequently acknowledged that it was wrong to have subjected Ms. Remini to the Truth Rundown and returned at least some of her money’, the filing claims.
‘Ms. Remini was made to make “amends” at Flag not only to David Miscavige but to Tom Cruise. For example, she was forced to donate money to name a seat in a theater after Suri Cruise and was to raise money for donation to Scientology causes led by Tom Cruise.
‘After reports of terrible abuse emerged from Scientology’s international base, Golden Era Productions, in Riverside County, Remini endured another six months of punishment for looking on the Internet and asking questions about the abuse.’
Remini claims that she had to hire bodyguards for her book tour after being ‘physically followed’ by people she says worked for the church.
