He says people are following my cult, but clearly no one in their right mind would be following his.

Is your cult one of the fun ones with lots of orgies and free love? Or one of the boring ones that we sit around chanting for inner calm?
Looking for something to do this summer since it looks like my motorcycle is going to be in for warranty work for the foreseeable future and a free love orgy cult sounds like fun.
Anyway, I don't know all the ins and outs of the courts on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in the US there really is no way to go back and say you didn't say something in a civil trial. You said it, it's on you, and people suing you can use it against you with just about 0% possibility of you being able to dispute it.
-Dave