Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige claims he's being harassed, in his response to a lawsuit from a former underling's wife, and we've got the details for you right here on Breaking Celebrity News.

Miscavige made a rare public statement, via court papers, in answering an Aug. 16 suit filed in Texas by Monique Rathbun, the wife of one-time Scientologist Marty Rathbun, in which she calls the institution a “notorious, multi-billion dollar cult.”

In the lawsuit, Monique, who herself has never been a member of the church, accuses the Scientology head and his colleagues of harassing her since 2009, based on her husband's stormy departure from the church, according to the blog Underground Bunker (which is produced by Scientology watcher Tony Ortega).

In his response, Miscavige goes to great lengths to illustrate that he doesn't have, nor has never had, an affiliation with the state of Texas, and has only briefly visited there onc