Eddie Cibrian is interviewed in this week’s Parade Magazine, and he continues to be a dipsh-t, basically. This isn’t as bad as the time when he complained about “when you reach a certain point in your career you’re placed in this unfair fishbowl”. No one, not even Eddie himself, can really out-do the amazing “unfair fishbowl” reference, but Eddie does try. I love how he consistently plays the victim in this interview… and I also love how he makes it seem like dating LeAnn Rimes is so f-cking boring and tedious. I can imagine.

If he had the power to heal.
“When I see my sons and any one of them is feeling bad or sick or they fall down and they scrape their knee and they’re crying, obviously, instinctually just as a father, you feel like, ‘Oh god, if I could just put my hand on them and make the pain go away.’ Every parent would really love to be able heal their pain, whether it’s minor or major.”

Miracles happen.
“I truly believe that. I mean, there are a lot of things that happen in life that you cannot explain. Even science can’t explain them. So you’ve got to think that there’s a higher power out there that’s actually creating them. A lot of people just say its luck, but I really believe that there’s something else out there that actually gives us miracles.”

Maybe a miracle would end the media attention surrounding his marriage break-up.
“You kind of realize you can’t really do anything in private. I feel bad for anybody who has to deal with something in their life that becomes public in the media. It’s been tough. I just try to remain steadfast in whatever decisions I make personally. There’s part of my life that’s great and part of my life that’s very difficult. But it doesn’t change the fact that what you do in your personal life is still personal and you have to keep it that way. The world can go on about whatever they think that you should be doing or shouldn’t be doing, but that doesn’t change anything.”

Finding romance with LeAnn Rimes.
“Basically, I hope it’s getting to be old news for everybody. Maybe at one point we had a concern about all the gossip and paparazzi frenzy, but not anymore. Now, when we feel like doing something, we just go out and do it.”

The best part of his new day job.
“Being on CSI: Miami has been great. I mean, I have a great role on a show that’s already popular. Usually, you’re in a new series worrying about whether it’s going to be popular or not. When I came in the ship was running smoothly. Ironically, I was up to speed because I’d just done a pilot in which I played the leader of an FBI evidence response team. I trained with some real FBI agents, so I’d sort of already been there.”

As for taking off his shirt in his first episode.
“I certainly wasn’t trying to be competitive. At least I had a reason; I was trying to save somebody. I mean, David Caruso takes his shirt off three or four times an episode.”

What he’s learned about on-screen passion.
“God, I started out on soap operas where every other scene was a love scene, so I got kind of broken in there. I’ve done some scenes on film and TV where things were even a little bit more risque. You’ve just got to make it look real and believable. No one gives you any advice. They kind of just stick you in the fire to see what happens and if you can handle it. I guess if I had to give somebody advice it would be, ‘Just try to forget that the cameras are there and try to enjoy it. And don’t forget the Altoids.'”

Setting the course for his future.
“There’s always decisions that you have to make and there’s always forks in the road and when you decide to go left, it decides to go right — you know, it takes you in a whole different direction. For me, I always think that what happens is meant to happen, and it happens for a reason, and so I accept it. I’m very optimistic and very just happy in nature. I think it’s born in me. Kindness always wins.”

[From Parade]

So, what’s the verdict? Do you think Eddie really loves LeAnn? “Basically, I hope it’s getting to be old news for everybody… Now, when we feel like doing something, we just go out and do it.” I know what he’s saying, he’s trying to play the “we’re hounded every time we go out, it’s such a drag, but we have to ignore it” card. But it comes across like he finds the relationship boring. Maybe that’s just how I’m reading it, and obviously, how I think Eddie must feel. Also – isn’t LeAnn one of those celebrities that pap’s herself? Doesn’t she call them and tell them where she is? If Eddie finds the fame so suffocating, shouldn’t he tell LeAnn to stop calling the paparazzi?