Say 'John Cusack' to most people, and you'll get a somewhat muted response – maybe a nod of the head, maybe a shrug, maybe a snort and a muttered quip about Must Love Dogs. It's a shame Emily Leatherman isn't most people.
If reports are to be believed, if you mention John Cusack to Emily Leatherman, she'll write down a lengthy love letter to him, slip it in a bag along with a screwdriver and throw it right at you. It's this sort of alleged behaviour which has meant that John Cusack was granted his restraining order against Emily Leatherman yesterday, who he claims was stalking him. There's a chance that a cheaper punishment would have been to sit Emily Leatherman down and forced her to watch Serendipity all the way through – since that was enough to put us right off John Cusack – but a restraining order will do the trick just as well.
John Cusack looks like an easygoing, laid-back type of character – but write him a letter obsessing about the two of you being together, slip it in a bag with some rocks and screwdrivers and throw it into his garden, and John Cusack becomes anything but laid-back. We know this because a) we tried it once and he pointed at us in quite a scary way and b) Emily Leatherman apparently did it to him, and has got slapped with a temporary restraining order as a result.
For those of you who don't know, Emily Leatherman is John Cusack's alleged stalker – a a 32-year-old woman with no fixed address who has apparently been showing unusual interest in the actor recently. Last month, John Cusack filed for a restraining order against her, claiming that she had been:
"Stalking, throwing long letters of interest over [his] fence in bags with rocks and screwdrivers inside, making unannounced visits to offices of people [he works] with in an attempt to meet [him] and listing [his] address as her own during a recent address… Mail addressed to her has been arriving at [his] residence without [his] permission. [He has] never met this person."
Yesterday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered that Emily Leatherman, has to stay at least 500 feet from Cusack, his home, workplace, car and any place he does business. However, 500 feet isn't that far – all Emily Leatherman would need is a hastily-assembled trebuchet and a handful of screwdrivers, and it's business as usual. Failing that, Leatherman just needs to get her hands on a megaphone and wait for the breeze to turn, and Cusack will have no choice but to listen to her shouting "You were probably a bit better in Grosse Point Blank than you were in Pushing Tin."
And that would be the biggest compliment that John Cusack had ever received.
Read more:
John Cusack Granted Restraining Order – People
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Anonymous says
I would like to say first of all, you are very incorrect about the statements that you have made about John Cusack. He has a huge fan base and has been a sex symbol since his role as Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything. I don’t know where you get your information from or why you are writing an article without doing the proper research but I think that you are being extremely rude saying that it is unusual for him to have a stalker. He is not as “popular” as some of the other celebrities that you have named because he choses not to be, he has said in the past that “celebrity is the worst thing that can happen to an actor”. I am a huge fan of his work because he is a very good actor, in his roles it seems as if you know him because he becomes the characters so well. He turns down huge roles for many reasons and he has passed over many films that would have made him a very “popular celebrity”. You do not see very much of him in the news because he tries to stay out of the public eye and he does not live in Hollywood or even in California. He desires to stay true to his role as an Actor and not becoming a household name. I am appalled at the things that you have written in this column and I think that you should do more research before you write about someone.