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Things over at the Tom Cruise camp have been getting heated ever since Dr. Drew Pinsky made a comment about Tom Cruise’s mental health. As FOX News calls it, it’s a “War of the Words“.
Here is Pinsky’s comment which is in next month’s Playboy:
“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.
“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.”
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Because of Pinsky’s comment, Cruise’s camp has fired back and is comparing the TV therapist to a Nazi.
Cruise’s attorney Bert Fields response, which was given to the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column, said “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.”
Pinsky has apologized for the comment he made about Tom Cruise. A representative for Pinsky said, “Dr. Drew meant no harm to Mr. Cruise and apologizes if his comments were hurtful”.
They also say that Dr. Drew is by no means making a blanket statement diagnosis about Scientology or Mr. Cruise, who he doesn’t even know.
WOW! I think both sides took this way too far. Pinsky’s statement did sound like it was making a blanket diagnosis to me, but then Cruise’s camp didn’t have to go and compare him to Goebbels, who was one of Hitler’s closest associates and a devout follower.
Read the FOX News story here and the Page Six report here.
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