Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis is a “psychopath” and “monster,” lawyers for his rape accuser claimed Wednesday as his three-week long civil case came to a close in Manhattan.

Jurors will begin deliberating the case Thursday morning after hearing a days-worth of closing arguments from both sides — including from Haggis’ lawyer Priya Chaudhry who painted accuser Haleigh Breest as a starstruck, spurned lover seeking revenge.

“We have to face the cold, hard truth,” Breest’s lawyer Ilann Maazel told the jury. “Paul Haggis is a monster. He is a psychopath. He is cunning and manipulative.

“He assaulted five women and has the gall to get up on that stand and play the victim. Shame on him.”

Breest accused the “Million Dollar Baby” screenwriter of raping her in his Soho apartment on Jan. 31, 2013, after a film premiere event where she was working at her part-time publicist job.

Haggis has maintained the encounter was consensual.The jurors heard testimony from four other women who also accused Haggis of rape and sexual assault.

Haggis has denied those allegations as well, alleging that the Church of Scientology cooked up the false accusations as part of its vendetta against him after he publicly split with the church in 2009 after over 30 years as a member.

Haggis “wants you to believe that the Church of Scientology rounded up all these women all in a vast plot against him,” Maazel said, calling the Scientology defense “a sideshow.”

Haggis’ lawyers have admitted that there is no evidence linking Breest to Scientology.
“The Scientology defense is the last cynical gasp of a desperate man,” Maazel said. “How stupid does he think we are?”

Maazel also reminded jurors of the text message that Breest sent a friend the day after the alleged rape recounting that “I kept saying no,” to Haggis.

Maazel asked the jury  of three women and three men to award Breest whatever dollar amount they see fit, for the trauma and haunting memories of that night.

“She has had sex once in 10 years” since, Maazel said. “She has not been able to have a boyfriend, marry, have kids.”

Earlier Wednesday, Chaudhry described Breest as a liar whose story has changed many times over the last decade depending on whom she spoke to and it eventually evolved to become a tale of rape after she felt rejected by the 69-year-old “Crash” director.

“There are three ‘R’ words that happened here —rejection, regret and revenge — and none of these ‘R’ words are rape,” Chaudhry said.

“Her version is at best a cocktail of false memories and lies,” Chaudhry said.

Breest and Haggis continued to see each other at film events for years after and exchanged several friendly emails in the month following the alleged rape.

Chaudhry claimed that Breest was “sniffing” and “hinting” for another date with Haggis in those emails but turned sour when he never asked — and eventually started showing up at events with other women, including a beautiful Italian actress.

A spurned Breest then decided to get revenge by bringing her 2017 suit against Haggis, the lawyer argued.

Breest’s lawyers also blasted the suit out to the media at the time so their client could become famous, Chaudhry claimed.

“She is a publicist,” Chaudhry said. “What she does is create publicity. She wants to be famous … she wants you to give her Paul Haggis’ hard-earned money.”

Breest, however, has claimed that she wanted to remain cordial and professional with Haggis after the alleged rape for the sake of her job.

Maazel claimed that Haggis tried to “gaslight” Breest and “pretend nothing happened” when he emailed her the next day asking her to not publish his photo taken at the event the night before so that Scientologists couldn’t track him. And Maazel said that Breest tried to “normalize” what happened to her.

Chaudhry also argued that the Church of Scientology could be behind Breest and four other women’s sexual assault allegations against her client.

“Scientology is permanently attached to him like a dark shadow,” the lawyer said.

“We know that [Haggis] is one of [Scientology’s] top three enemies,” Chaudhry said. “There is strong circumstantial evidence here.”

Chaudhry said one strong piece of circumstantial evidence is the fact that Scientology suddenly stopped its campaign to ruin Haggis’ life right after Breest brought her case.

“Once this lawsuit was filed in 2017, for the first time in its history … they suddenly stop pursuing Paul Haggis,” Chaudhry said. “Why? Is it because they achieved their mission to utterly destroy him?”

“King of Queens” actress Leah Remini — also a former Scientologist — testified by video Monday on Haggis’ behalf about how the church used litigation to “destroy” people’s lives and said that Haggis “is the victim here.”

Scientology denied any connection to the case against Haggis in a statement on Monday.

“For over a decade, Haggis has penned false stories about the Church in an effort to distract from whatever bad acts he has engaged in. The church has nothing to do with the claims against Haggis nor does it have any relation to the accusers or to the attorneys litigating the case.”