Cast your minds back to last year. Tom Cruise was in the middle of promoting War Of The Worlds using the unusual tactic of slagging off young mothers who take medication from post-natal depression.
"Just ye wait, Tom Cruise, just ye wait," a group of wild-eyed, biblical-looking young women probably swore while probably standing on top of a hill in a furious thunderstorm, "When ye have ye first born, ye baby's mother shall suffer a terrible depression lasting a thousand years! And we shall tut and say ye probably should have seen it coming."
And the prophesy might have come true – Tom Cruise is frantically denying reports that Katie Holmes is herself suffering from post-natal depression amid reports that the couple have had all kinds of big fights.
This wasn't part of the plan. Mission: Impossible III has already come out and underperformed despite actually being pretty good, and Tom Cruise has already done all the publicity shtick, by getting sued by a stuntman with a burnt pee-pee and by watching Katie Holmes give birth to baby Suri in total silence before possibly eating the placenta. But now all that's over, Tom Cruise was supposed to go back and do stuff away from the glaring spotlight of publicity again. That hasn't happened, though.
According to Life & Style Weekly, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have had a giant bust-up, which has resulted in Katie taking baby Suri away to see her family in Ohio without Tom. Tom and Katie's Dad famously don't get on; most recently, Mr Holmes objected to Tom making Katie go through a program called Buff Brides to get her looking in vaguely decent shape before they get married. If they're still getting married, that is. Oh, our poor heads. This is how MSNBC reported the Life & Style Weekly article:
“[Tom] told Katie he wasn’t going, considering the bad relations between him and her family,” an “insider” told the mag. “Katie was really happy he said that, because she’d been afraid to admit to him that she didn’t want him to go"… The couple allegedly had a “huge argument” which ended with Katie declaring, “I’m doing this and you can’t stop me.” Her rep denies the story… The episode, however, may be giving Holmes second thoughts. A “confidant” of hers told the mag: “Katie’s very unhappy and beginning to realise she may have made a major mistake being with Tom.”
But wait – Katie Holmes is 'very unhappy'? Why is that? Well, obviously it's post-natal depression, isn't it. That's what's being suggested, anyway. Oh the sweet irony! Just last year, Tom Cruise was shouting loudly on TV about Brooke Shields needing to take medication for her past-natal depression and saying all sad mothers were giant wusses. Brooke and Tom have now sort of made up, but now there are all kinds of Katie Holmes post-natal depression rumours swirling around. Rumours which Tom Cruise's publicist is quick to deny:
"Those reports are not true. Ms Holmes is doing wonderfully."
Looks like that Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes movie might just be a remake of Bye Bye Love. Or Bringing Up Baby… Away From That Nutty Midget.
Read more:
Are Tom And Katie On The Rocks Already? – MSNBC
Tom Denies Katie's Tears – Sky
[story by Stuart Heritage]
helene says
I though you was going to laughs about these stupids stories, because they look so ridiculous and predicted!
But no, you are ridiculous!
“oh! the irony!”
Oooh, pleaaaase, you idiot, do you really think we didn’t know you were coming with this news?
How bizarre Katie is ALL smile in LA this week with lovely Tom at Connor’s baseball match.
You are gone.