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06-12-2008 11:08 AM
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 Tom Cruise’s short-fused defense of Scientology has made its way back into the headlines, as the “Mission Impossible” star has attacked “Celebrity Rehab” host Dr. Drew Pinsky for comments he made about Cruise’s relationship to the controversial religion.
“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt,” says Dr. Drew in a Playboy magazine interview on newsstands next month. “Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood--maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”
Given Cruise’s erratic, baffling, and sometimes indefensible public behavior, many may not find Dr. Drew’s observations as anything short of obvious, especially in light of Cruise’s own admission of his abusive father. Cruise, however, doesn’t see it that way.
Page 6 is reporting today that Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, has angrily responded to Pinsky and takes a public statement one step further by comparing the respected doctor to one of the most famous Nazis. “This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”
Maybe Cruise’s involvement in the film “Valkyrie,” in which he plays a Nazi officer, has put the German Axis at the front of his mind, but it’s clear that Cruise has yet to understand that in instances regarding his faith, sometimes it’s better to just walk away with no comment.
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Message Edited by RyanCreed on 06-12-2008 03:55 PM
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