Leah Remini was ordered to boost cash for Tom Cruise’s pet causes as a part of her punishment for displeasing Scientology leaders, the actress claims in new court docket paperwork.
Remini — who’s suing the church for defamation — claims within the court docket declaration that she was made to “elevate cash for Scientology causes led by Tom Cruise” after questioning the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, the spouse of church chief David Miscavige who has not been seen in public in 2007.
Moreover, Remini, who was concerned in Scientology from 1979 to 2013, alleges within the newest court docket submitting that she was “compelled to donate cash to call a seat in a Scientology auditorium after Suri Cruise.”
The declaration, first reported by Tony Ortega of The Underground Bunker, was submitted in response to the church’s authorized makes an attempt to have Remini’s lawsuit, filed in August, tossed out of court docket.
“This lawsuit is ludicrous and allegations are pure lunacy,” a Scientology spokeswoman instructed The Put up of Remini’s lawsuit and follow-up declaration. “The Church will not be intimidated by Remini’s newest act of blatant harassment and try to forestall truthful free speech.”
A consultant for Cruise didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Remini, who’s suing the church for unspecified damages, claims the transgression that led to her alleged punishment started whereas she was attending Cruise and Katie Holmes’ $2.5 million marriage ceremony in 2006 at a fort in Bracciano, Italy.
Inside Scientology, the ceremony was billed because the “Marriage ceremony of the Century,” in accordance with the declaration. Consequently, Remini was “shocked to find” that Michelle “Shelly” Miscavige, the spouse of Scientology chief David Miscavige, was not there.
Involved, she requested extremely positioned church members, together with Cruise’s private handlers, “The place is Shelly?” — solely to be “instantly admonished by the group” for asking the query, court docket papers state.
The “King of Queens” actress claims she later filed inside church experiences about what she alleges to have been “unethical contacts between varied Scientology executives and others on the marriage ceremony” that Remini “understood to be forbidden by Scientology teachings.”
Upon returning to Los Angeles from the marriage, the declaration states, Remini claims she was “ordered to go to Florida, to the Flag Land Base Constructing” — the religious headquarters of Scientology.
There, in accordance with court docket papers, Remini allegedly underwent a “Reality Rundown, described as “a type of psychological torture meant to rewrite the goal’s reminiscences.”
She claims to have been held at FLAG for 4 months and to have endured “psychological torture [that] continued hour after hour, day after day, for months.” Finally she “rescinded” the experiences and took duty for “being the issue.”
Remini left Scientology in 2013 and have become publicly essential of the church. In 2015, she authored a e-book, “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology.” Quickly after leaving, Remini claims within the court docket doc, “I filed a lacking particular person report on Shelly Miscavige with the LAPD.”