Today is the day fellow humans. Tom Cruise will boost Oprah’s ratings this afternoon by giving her an interview that will clear up all rumors and incidents.
Oprah confessed how surprising it was to her that Tom Tom jumping on the couch became a phenomenon,
When we finished that show with you jumping up on the sofa, I was like, ‘Wow. What was that?’ I had no idea it was going to turn into an international brouhaha, as I’m sure you did not either.
I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident.
Cruise tells Winfrey,
I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her. I can’t even articulate it, to be honest. That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me. [The negative response] just kind of kept going. Those things I kind of go, ‘You just have to take in stride.’ It just kind of became a confluence of things.
Below, Tom reveals the truth about his interview with Matt Lauer, the one where he called him glib, on Scientology, on Suri, and on slamming Brooke Shileds.
ON ATTACKING MATT LAUER
He also opened up about his 2005 interview with Matt Lauer (Cruise attacked the anchor, calling him “glib” during a chat about psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs).
“I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer,” Cruise says. “For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It’s not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this.”
(Cruise now says of medicating children, “I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision.”)
ON SLAMMING BROOKE SHIELDS
He says his comments on post-partum depression “came out wrong.” (He slammed Brooke Shields in the same 2005 interview for taking Paxil to treat post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan.)
“What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way,” Cruise says.
He says the incident has brought the two of them “closer” (Shields attended his 2006 wedding to Holmes.)
ON BEING A SCIENTOLOGIST
Cruise dodges Winfrey’s question about whether he feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement.
“It’s a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it],” he says. “I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.
“The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others,” Cruise adds. “That’s part of being a Scientologist, and that’s who I am as a person.”
In January, videos leaked online of Cruise at Scientology events discussing the religion. He says the footage “was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I’m actually talking to my congregation.”
“It’s [taken] totally out of context,” he adds.
ON BUYING A SONOGRAM MACHINE FOR HOLMES DURING HER PREGNANCY
Cruise says he and Holmes took great pains to keep her pregnancy private. “We went in the middle of the night, and we were very excited — this is such a private moment,” he says.
“My life was already a zoo,” he says. When news leaked, “it was off the charts.”
As for purchasing a sonogram machine for Holmes, Cruise explains, “When you’re having a baby, you just want it to be as safe and as easy as possible.”
ON KEEPING SURI HIDDEN FOR SO LONG
Lots of rumors spread about their daughter, Suri, because the couple kept her hidden after she was born. Some blogs speculated that the child was deformed. That talk, Cruise says, was “hard to hear.
“We just want to have our baby, have the kids and everyone get to know Suri, get the family up here and just chill and have that time that you never get back,” he explains. “You don’t ever get those moments back.”
On waiting three months to publish her photo in Vanity Fair in 2006, Cruise says, “Kate and I didn’t feel any need to [rush] it. We said, ‘Why? It’s our family.’ We just were on Suri time.”
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In watching this interview with Tom Cruise, Oprah herself made a statement to the effect that the “Tom Cruise” video had been heavily edited, to which Tom Cruise responds that it had been taken out of context.
This statement by Oprah is completely false, and I am amazed at the lack of research on this. The man who produced this video, Mark Headley, has himself stated that the version seen on youtube was unedited! If Oprah is not aware of this, I would hope she would correct this statement as soon as possible. The reason that so many people found this video strange is because it is a strange video, not because it was edited to appear that way.
Mark Headley is a former Scientologist and Executive Producer of many of the videos produced by Golden Era Productions, including the now-infamous Tom Cruise video where he states that Scientologists are the only ones who can help at the scene of an accident, among other things. The Church of Scientology and its supporters have repeatidly stated that this video was heavily edited and taken out of context, and that is why it appears so strange to many people.
However, Mark Headley, who produced this video, has stated that the version seen on youtube and on the internet has NOT been edited in any way.
Quoting Mark:
“And those videos, the way they appear, they are not been edited after the fact. That is actually what aired and that is what played to the Scientologists. I know people will tell you different but those were straight off the DVDs.”
source:
Mark Headley Interview with Kevin and Bean, KROQ 4/8/08
http://kroqfs.com/kbpodcasts/KBpodcast_4808.mp3
Mark Headley interview occurs from 41:43 - 55:24 on this mp3.
The quote above can be heard at 48:30 minutes.
I ask all media, PLEASE don’t leave your viewers or readers with the false impression that someone purposefully edited this video just to make Tom cruise look strange. The video appeared exactly as it was produced. Opinions about its strangeness should be left to the individual viewer to decide for themselves. Oprah shouldn’t be doing damage control for Tom Cruise by spreading a lie.