By now, Emily Leatherman has become a stalker who's slightly more famous than the man she apparently stalked. You'll know Emily Leatherman as the woman who chucked screwdriver-filled bags into John Cusack's garden.
And that sort of behaviour usually ends up with one of two outcomes. 1) John Cusack goes to the Los Angeles Superior Court and gets a restraining order put on Emily Leatherman, or 2) John Cusack falls madly in love with Emily Leatherman's eccentric ways, they get married and craft a romantic comedy together entitled Must Love Chucking Screwdrivers At Moderately Famous Actors. Sadly for Emily Leatherman, the first scenario was played out a couple of days ago. We say it's a shame because Emily Leatherman now entirely denies stalking John Cusack.
If you're going to be famous for something, our dear old Grandfather once told us, then it's better to be famous for filling a bag with rocks and love letters and lobbing it at celebrities than being in films about air traffic control workers. Shortly after he told us that, Bob Holness had our Grandfather arrested for filling up his Koi pond with bags of rocks and screwdrivers, but his point still holds true.
Emily Leatherman gained a small amount of notoriety last month when John Cusack claimed that she was stalking him, and had been for 18 months, via all of the traditional methods – dropping by places he was working to try and meet him, listing his address as her own – and the infamous screwdriver/rock/love-letter combo. John Cusack recently managed to get a temporary restraining order placed on Emily Leatherman, banning her from coming within 500 feet of John Cusack, his home, workplace, car and any place he does business.
Weirdly enough, though, this restraining order hasn't put Emily Leatherman – a 32-year-old woman with no fixed address – in the best of moods. She says that she only sent John Cusack two letters, and far from claiming that she's hurt herself if he didn't meet her, they only asked him to use his celebrity status to convince police to investigate an incident in 2001 where she claims a group of men drugged and raped her. Speaking to Associated Press, Leatherman said:
"I've never written any of that. I feel I've been set up to look like a stalker."
It looks like this sorry mess has all too quickly come to an end, and before we could properly market our screwdriver/ rock/ plastic bag/ scented stationary love letter gift set, too. Will nothing ever go right for us?
Read more:
Woman denies she stalked actor John Cusack – Forbes
[story by Stuart Heritage]