One of the most celebrated romantic fiction writers today and best-selling author of titles like "The Notebook," Nicolas Sparks is being accused of very damning behavior by a former employee.

The employee, a former headmaster, filed a 47-page complaint Thursday detailing the defamatory statements and practices Sparks told workers at the North Carolina private school he started in 2006. He allegedly kept minority students from attending the school, told employees to not publicly associate with black people, banned non-Christian religious exposure to his students and discouraged teachers from helping bullied LGBT youth.

Plaintiff Saul Hillel Benjamin said Sparks hired him in February 2013 to "take our little school's student body and make it amazing, global and open-hearted." However, when Benjamin attempted to diversify the student body of The Epiphany School of Global Studies, which only had two African-American students among 514 K-12 students, Sparks went after Benjamin with what he called a "veritable cauldron of bigotry toward individuals who are not traditionally Christian, and especially who are non-white."

Benjamin said along with Sparks, the school's Board of Trustees also said ignorant remarks. The former headmaster is of Jewish heritage and Quaker faith and once recited the phrase "the Rabbi Jesus" while reading from original Hebrew and Greek texts of the New Testament, to which Board members Tracy Lorentzen and Ken Gray yelled, "Don't ever refer to Jesus Christ as a Rabbi!"

Sparks took the practice further when he supposedly told Benjamin to stop talking about Islam, Judaism or other non-Christian religions during Epiphany functions.

After attending an event where the leader of a local NAACP chapter president spoke, Sparks told Benjamin he had brought "disrepute to Epiphany" by publicly associating with African Americans. And when a student group that met to discuss sexual identity was bullied by parents, saying they should start a "homo-caust," Sparks reprimanded Benjamin by asking, "What's with this gay club?" before telling him to break up the group.

In the introduction to Benjamin's lengthy complaint, he writes, "You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter," a direct quote from one of his former boss' novels.