BC: I don't think you're convincing anyone here, Tom.
TC: I don't need to convince anyone of anything. I know what we've done. I mean, I know where we put Suri. Uh... what I'm trying to say is this — that baby was not a doll. Dolls are nothing but pseudo-people and there's no science behind them to prove we used a doll for those photos. She performs eight life-like functions! [Author's note: Sounds like "New Baby Born" to me.]
BC: Why don't you just tell us the truth?
Tomster: You want the truth? You can't handle the truth! Oh, wait. That was Nicholson's line, wasn't it? Yes, yes. I mean, no, no. I... I... what was the question?
BC: The truth. Why don't you tell us the truth? Why haven't we seen Suri and why did you really apologize to Brooke Shields?
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV: I apologized to my friend Brooke because, although she's still very confused about those drugs she was taking, I love her very much. I care for her well-being. And most of all, I care about my caree... friendship with her. As for Suri, I told you already, she is no doll.
Eh, there you have it, folks. Straight from the horse's ass', er, mouth. Suri Cruise is no doll. She must be just as scary looking as we all thought.
Shields, ever the diplomat, told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show she believed Cruise to be sincere in his plea for forgiveness. However, I don't think she heard Cruise's controller, er, representative saying, "'It is true that his friendship with Ms. Shields has been mended.'" Arnold Robinson added, "'Tom has not changed his position on anti-depressants.'"
Brooke, at the very least, is far more gracious than I would have been. We do, however, have something in common — we both have real children.
Article comments
1 - Eric Berlin
Looks like Tom is finally trying to fight the good PR fight, no ?
2 - Snarkattack
He's only a few contracts late, Eric. Uh hello...Paramount, Tom?
I've said it once, I'll say it again: till Tom Cruise is physiologically capable of having children and experiencing said drop in hormone production that generally causes post-natal depression he should just bloody shut up about all that.
Someone might want to check and see he's not bipolar after that couch incident (I should know better than to joke about bipolar - it is a serious affliction).
This is ground control to Major Tom...you've really made the grade...and the papers want to know whose shirt to tear...
3 - ann
get real - the guy has done the right thing about apologising, if he was trying to impress you he would just say it to the press......you just hate him coz he's good looking, rich and will always get a biger salary than you with or without paramount.And u just hate it when he does the right thing don't u? And if any of have been in his reproductive organs to confirm that he can't have children pls say it coz im tired of listening to self proclaimed specialists.
4 - Scamps
I don't exactly buy it. He apologised but still says that he's right. So it wasn't exactly "I'm sorry I didn't respect your personal beliefs", it was more like "I'm sorry I embarassed you while claiming that I'm right. And I'm still right. So NYAH."
5 - ann
oh by the way, suri is for real, whoever thinks she's not pls go to hell coz tom and katie wont get any dipers from u if they care....so shut the f**k and have your own kids...im a woman with 2 children i used to stay in a place really far away from the main hospital and i underwent depression after my 2nd child was born, but i didn't take medicine i just ate well and exercised a bit... there are so many women who don't need those pills and don't use them so guess what? tom was right - again. i think brook was basically advertising for the company which produces those drugs.....vitamins are very good for your health...drugs on the other hand might be quick to get u better but have side effect even panadol has long term side effects (read the BNF before replying to this) so guess what tom was right. it's a shame being thick headed comes in numbers
6 - STM
Didn't Tom ditch his long-time PR a few years back and hire his sister instead?
Geez, family members are the wrong people to be handling your publicity. The word in Hollywood (and they should know) is that it's the same Tom who's always been there, the only difference being that it's now out in the open in all its glory.
With the cat out of the bag, the boss of Paramount was fairly strong in his choice of prose in explaining the company's decision, at one stage using the term "career-suicide" (I've seen the quotes) to describe his former star's unusual behaviour.
Perhaps it's the stress of dealing with public adulation and multi-million-dollar paypackets, fame being a fickle thing and all that (as Gibbo and Rusty have recently discovered).
But, seriously, what they do ain't rocket science, either, so how hard can it be??
7 - noname
this tom bashing is seriously turning me into a tom defender -
enough already - this mob mentality is disturbing to me as an american.