I have been to see my lawyer about libel as my ex husband’s partner spread lies about me on the internet, however she erased it when my current partner warned her that I was going to take action. So I had no proof. Before she got with my ex husband, and when he and I split up he spread some very serious lies about me around our circle of friends and beyond, he lied to the authorities about me, the healthcare providers, friends and family. The lies have followed me for 5 years but I was never able to prove him wrong until now.
I took ill after giving birth to my first child, I had all of the symptoms of an over active thyroid but my levels on tests were borderline so that was ignored, I was so upset, frustrated and very poorly and was desperate for a Dr to listen, and so I wound up seeing more than one doctor to see if one would help me. My symptoms were bad, I had heart problems, vision problems, weight loss, the lot. However my ex husband (who was my husband at the time) could not handle what I was going through and did not believe me. Instead he told friends and family that I was having some kind of mental breakdown. I struggled to prove him wrong because I didn’t have a diagnosis but I was physically ill not mentally. He called the authorities trying to get me put away because I was experiencing panic attacks severe mood swings (all to do with thyroid), I was noticing differences in myself, my weight loss, my hair was falling out a bit, my skin was in bad condition and he accused me of being an hypochondriac. It got worse and I left him because he would just not believe me and even called me a mad woman to my face. He turned our friends against me, told the health visitor that I was unstable. We live in a very small town and so people whom I had never met once I introduced myself admitted they heard stories that I was a lunatic and there was even a nickname attached (a bit like village idiot). I lost custody of my son (unofficial), I collapsed one night and my ex had to take care of my son, I asked him to keep him full time until I had this illness under control and so he saw that as the opportunity to lord it over me and not let me have my son back.
5 years on and I finally found a Dr who listened, I have been seen by an Endocrinologist and I have my diagnosis, I have sub clinical Hyperthyroidism, I have even had a mental assessment by a psychiatrist and there is nothing wrong with my mental health. I am on beta blockers now for my heart and am awaiting a scan on my thyroid since the blood results.
Because it has been 5 years my lawyer said that I haven’t a hope of full custody any more because my son is settled with his father (I’ve had weekend access all of this time), my ex still tells people I am mentally ill and I want to sue him for Slander. He and his new Mrs put libellous remarks about me on facebook recently and mutual friends joined in, even the owner of a local cafe that I take my daughter (to my new partner) to. It seems a great deal of the town is against me due to his lies and I want the truth to be made public and this slander to stop.
I have witnesses who have admitted my ex husband told them that I was crazy, they would stand up in court and say this also. And so, how would I start a case against him?
These lies have cost me contracts for work (I’m a wedding photographer), custody of my son, of course my marriage, my home (I had to leave our family home and I even still paid the tax on the place despite renting somewhere else), my reputation around a town of people whom before these lies I was a stranger to and of course my friends.
If they can prove that the "lies" are true, then it is not slander. "Being crazy" is subjective.
Get a psychiatric evaluation. Only then can you prove that they are wrong and that they are slandering you.
Good luck