Brooke Shields is wanting again on her public spat with Tom Cruise.
In her new memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,” the 59-year-old actress defined why she defended herself in opposition to the “Top Gun” star, 62, when he publicly shamed her for taking remedy to handle her postpartum despair in 2005.
“Had Tom taken a public swing at me before I became a mother, I probably would have stayed quiet,” Shields wrote in her ebook. “I would have ignored his ridiculous rant. I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own (deluded) agenda.”
“I would have been satisfied that his behavior would speak for itself,” she continued.
The “Pretty Baby” actress stated that Cruise’s assault “left me gobsmacked,” including, “I was never one to find myself in a public feud.”
She additionally famous that turning 40 shortly earlier than the feud broke out modified her perspective on the drama.
“Sitting quietly and letting myself be attacked might have been my approach a decade earlier — I might have even regretted sharing my story or felt insecure that maybe my career was stalling while a powerful male movie star was singling me out, sure that I’d never stand a chance in that fight — but now I was emboldened by life experience,” Shields wrote.
In 2005, Shields and Cruise obtained into it when the well-known scientologist shamed her for taking remedy to handle her postpartum despair. Shields gave delivery to her first baby, daughter Rowan, in 2003, and detailed her postpartum struggles in her 2005 memoir, “Down Came the Rain.”
“There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance. The thing that I’m saying about Brooke is that there’s misinformation,” Cruise informed Matt Lauer on “Today” in 2005. “She doesn’t understand the history of psychiatry.”
In response, Shields wrote an op-ed within the New York Instances and referred to as out Cruise’s “ridiculous rant.”
She stated in her ebook that Cruise “disparaged me” and made “dangerous” feedback about her.
Regardless of their drama, Shields nonetheless scored an invitation to Cruise and Katie Holmes’ Nov. 2006 marriage ceremony.
In her new memoir, Shields confirmed that Cruise “eventually” apologized for shaming her, however “not publicly.”
“It wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it,” she stated.
Shields beforehand opened up about her beef with Cruise in her 2023 Hulu documentary, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.”
“It was so ridiculous to me,” she stated about Cruise’s 2005 feedback. “It’s not about the moral thing, or the right thing, or the good thing. It’s about who has more power.”
