We all remember Tom CruiseThe 2005 sofa jump incident, where he declared his love for his gender exult Katie Holmes MID -INTERVIEW – But only a month later, the actor would have another passionate outburst who lives in infamy.
While call Today promote War of the Worlds (with Holmes looking out of the camera), cruise after 42 years he warmed up when the host Matt lauer interrogated him on his criticism to Brooke Shieldswhich he had previously revealed that he trusted the help of antidepressants to treat postpartum depression.
At one point, the star insisted that Lauer did not “know the history of psychiatry”.
“I do it,” Cruise proclaimed Cruise, before dating to Lauer while still living in the air: “Matt, Matt, Matt, you are GLIB.”
Continue to move -you take a look at the tense exchange:
For four decades, Tom Cruise has been working hard on our screens: sprinting wide landscapes, jumping between roofs and dodging explosions with frantic energy and the dazzling smile that have become its trademark. But beyond the acrobatics that challenge death and the bone structure that challenged the age, is an enigmatic figure. Some call it the last movie star. (…)
Who was involved
Only the largest film star in America and a television personality then!
Why do we remember it?
What started on June 24, 2005, as the usual Am Chitchat won Cukoo quickly. For more than five uncomfortable minutes, the actor tried at Lauer School using Scientology’s principles about the reason why “psychiatry is a pseudoscience” (Spoiler Alert: It is not, and the PPD is a real condition that affects one in seven pregnant women).
The host went back (“well, if the antidepressants work for Brooke Shields, why is it not well?”, He asked), but Cruise rejected his arguments, in a moment saying, “You don’t even know what Ritalin is.”
Key details
At that time, Cruise had recently replaced his long -time publicist for his sister. Inevitably followed a series of fires. (Nepotism does not always work: shocking!)
The consequences
Everyone was talking about a lack of cruise control. It Today Show received about 10,000 emails, unlike the usual hundreds. Shields responded to Cruise’s claims (which should have been treated with PPD with vitamins and exercise) with a New York Times Op-Ed piece entitled “War of words. “”
Brooke Shields (2005) wrote to Nyt who hoped that Cruise’s “rant” would call for “very necessary” attention to the PPD.
L. Busacca/Wireimage for Glamour MagazineUltimately the Upper pistol Icon apologized with his old cost (they shared the screen in 1981 Endless love) – Although “not publicly, which would have been correct”, he emphasized in his recent memory, Brooke Shields cannot grow old.
He even invited her to Italy for her 2006 bridal in Holmes. (They divorced in 2012.) Despite the blow to Cruise’s statements and attitude, the incident did not hurt the performance of War of the Worlds: The sci-fi Flick got more than $ 600 million.
A new perspective
Everything is forgiven! “I came up with arrogant. I could have managed it better,” Cruise acknowledged in 2008 return Today. “I think I’ve learned a very good lesson.”
Lauer, meanwhile, wished for a 2014 episode of Look at what happens live (where he also put a “Tom Cruise” wig for back to excitement opposite Andy Cohen!). As for this Tirade, the journalist said, “I think he had such a bum rap … To be honest, he was a real mensch after that. He came and apologized.”
Years later, Matt Lauer was light from the interview with “WWHL” with Andy Cohen.
Look at what happens live with Andy Cohen/YouTubeWhere are they now?
Despite a contusion representative, Cruise is still a box office, currently in Mission: impossible: the final count.
Tom Cruise at the premiere of ‘Mission impossible – The Final Reckoning’ in May 2025
Pictures by Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty for Polant picturesLauer, who was fired in 2017 after alleged inappropriate sexual behavior, lives a quiet life in the Hamptons.
As for Shields, in his book he wrote that the whole flap “finally worked in my favor and favor of women everywhere.”
