Cruise says he regrets 'glib' outburst
Posted December 14, 2008 10:00 pm
NEW YORK -- It took a few years, but Tom Cruise has recanted the tongue-lashing he gave Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" show.
Cruise says he didn't intend to come across as arrogant when he criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants in 2005.
The conversation grew heated when the "Mission Impossible" star told Lauer he was glib and didn't know about psychiatry.
Cruise, who has been a Scientologist for 25 years, agrees with the religion's long-running campaign against psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.
The mea culpa comes as Cruise is making rounds on talk-shows to promote his new movie, "Valkyrie."
Cruise stars as a Adolf Hitler assassin Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in "Valkyrie," which is to be released Dec. 25.
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