Rarely in the overtly smug – yet strangely insecure – world of Hollywood has there been a spat as legendary as the one between Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields over eating tablets that make you want to kill your baby less.
However, Brooke Shields isn't the kind of woman to let old wounds fester. She isn't the kind of woman who makes films good enough to be allowed on talk shows very much either, so when she was finally invited onto the Jay Leno show, Brooke Shields couldn't help but carp on about the time when Tom Cruise felt so bad for his loopy, Brooke-slagging TV performance that he went round to her house to say sorry with a delicious cake shaped like a giant Paxil. Or something like that anyway.
If they were in Brooke Shield's shoes, many people would be reacting to the news of Tom Cruise's sacking from Paramount by holding a year-long couch-jumping party complete with little placenta hors d'oeuvres. After all, it was Tom Cruise's mental rant about Brooke Shields that partly triggered his sacking.
You'll remember of course, that when Brooke Shields gave birth to her first baby Rowan Francis three years ago, she wrote a book about how antidepressants dampened her urge to chuck her baby at a wall as hard as she could. And you'll also remember that this book made Tom Cruise so mad that – while supposedly promoting War Of The Worlds – he launched into a bizarre anti-Brooke, anti-drugs, anti-Matt Lauer rant on The Today Show. Brooke Shields responded by calling Tom Cruise "ridiculous" and then getting herself pregnant again while telling everyone that she was only doing it so the doctors would give her a bunch of free drugs again. OK, not that last bit.
In recent months, this frostiness between Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise has thawed a bit. It probably helped that phantom Tom Cruise baby Suri Cruise and Brooke's new baby Grier were born on the exact same day, but it looked as if Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields were almost friends again. And on the Jay Leno show on Friday, Brooke revealed why; because Tom Cruise had gone to her house to say sorry:
"[Tom]came over to my house and he gave me a heartfelt apology. And he apologised for bringing me into the whole thing and for everything that happened. 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."
Not, of course, that this means Tom Cruise has changed his mind and suddenly believes in medicine again. According to his slave Arnold Robinson, Tom still likes to think that something like a broken leg or angina can be cured by a few vitamins and a jog around the block:
"It is true that his friendship with Ms. Shields has been mended. 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."
However, just to prove that he feels bad about the whole Brooke Shields shebang, Tom Cruise has decided to spend all his new movie money on a big budget movie version of Suddenly Susan where Susan doesn't have a baby, take some Prozac or immediately go straight to Scientology hell. What's more, the movie will also star Tom Cruise as that irritating ginger woman, so at least nobody will go and see it.
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Brooke Shields: Tom Cruise Apologised – People
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Michael V. Flores says
It’s a dream come true for me if you let tom cruise and brooke shields be a major cast in a certain film.