Uma Thurman stalker called actress's parents

By Edith Honan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man on trial for stalking Uma Thurman told her parents he had met the actress in a previous life and threatened to kill himself if he was not put in contact with her, Thurman's parents testified on Tuesday.

Jack Jordan, 37, is accused of harassing Thurman's family with e-mails, loitering for hours on the steps of Thurman's Manhattan apartment and visiting her trailer on a movie set.

The actress's mother, Nena Thurman, testified that Jordan called her Woodstock, New York, home and sent more than 19 e-mails from 2005 to 2007 to her husband, Robert Thurman, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University.

"He told me in so many words that he and my daughter had known one another in a previous life and were destined to be together, that he knew this, but she didn't know it," Nena Thurman told a New York court of a phone call she received from Jordan.

Jordan also wrote in an e-mail to Thurman's father: "When I see her or hear her voice, I feel very much in love. Like she and I refound each other. I imagined us in a cave a long time ago."

Jordan faces misdemeanour counts of stalking and harassment. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to one year in jail.

Uma Thurman is expected to take the stand on Thursday.

In e-mails, Jordan called the "Kill Bill" star "the love of my life, which I have never met" and said only he could make her happy.