There’s a lot you can say about Tom Cruise, but he does seem like a geniunely nice guy, albeit completely batshit crazy and often lying through his teeth. He has wacked out beliefs and is so deep in the closet there are hanger marks on his face (I stole that from commetor Clarimonde on a Robbie Williams post), but people praise his down-to-earth demeanor as he engages them on a level only a cult member can manage. It’s called “love bombing” and is a common tactic of cults to get people to feel so accepted and warmly welcomed that they’re sucked into the black hole of endless re-education and seizure of all their worldly assets.
Cruise is pretty good at that “love bombing” and he turned on the charm on behalf of his flailing career to apologize to Brooke Shields for criticizing her last year for using antidepressants:
“And through it all, I was so impressed with how heartfelt it was. And I didn’t feel at any time that I had to defend myself, nor did I feel that he was trying to convince me of anything other than the fact that he was deeply sorry. And I accepted it.”
Cruise’s spokesman confirmed the celebrities made up.
“It is true that his friendship with Ms. Shields has been mended,” spokesman Arnold Robinson said in a statement. “He has not changed his position about antidepressants, which as evidenced by the black label warnings issued by the FDA on these types of drugs, are unhealthy.”
How coincidental that Cruise apologized to Shields right after he was dropped from Paramount for his “recent conduct.” While less than amazing box-office performance is more likely to blame, it is said that the wife of Paramount head Sumner Redstone was completely enraged by Cruise’s comments blasting Shields for using drugs to overcome postpartum depression and told her husband that Cruise would lose his female fan base.
In case you forgot what Cruise said at the time, he made an impassioned argument on The Today Show that there was “no such thing as a chemical imbalance,” and that he knew the history of drug development and psychiatry while asserting that Matt Lauer was uninformed for defending the fact that antidepressants work.
Update: here’s the video of Brooke telling the story to Jay Leno in her interview on Friday.
I saw Brooke on Leno last Friday. She described how he came over, apologized and then her husband asked him if he was hungry.. Brooke was telling the story, making faces to suggest that she was trying to gesture to her husband “what are you doing???” but Cruise jumped at it and they ended up with him eating an omlette in their kitchen. She is definitely not buying it but was classy enough to accept it for what it is: another PR stunt. This is such an obvious effort to regain some of the lost goodwill, it’s laughable. Why didn’t he apologize to her BEFORE he was fired?
Hey thanks Millie. I found the video on youtube and am posting it now.
I am not buying this for a minute. Tom Cruise should have been horsewhipped for practicing medicing without a license or a brain for that matter.
TC is just trying to salvage an obviously dead career. No more fan base for the loser TC. Just sad that KH bought in to the shite TC was espousing.
Talk for yourself Shelly!
I am a big fan as many other across the world (who got the ability to chill out, and are forgivers, like Brooke, yes WE are class) and will always be his fans; I love his acting, his movies, and he show me he is a true man for apologies at her house in person.
You all are clearly sad.
“PR move” yeaaah, riiight, Tom Cruise will NEVER got it right, huh!pfff
You’re boring.
sure, he busts into her house uninvited to apologize and make sure everyone knows about it, just days after he got kicked in the ass by Paramount, mainly because of his horrible public image. GREAT PR move, no doubt, but it’s not working. People see through Tommy and they don’t care for the product so much. Sure, he’ll make a few more movies but his reign over Hollywood is over. And he should finally give it up and come out of the closet. It’s no big deal, everyone knows he’s gay. In fact, I think it would make people understand all this insanity and be more inclined to feel sorry for him.