Remember when Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, and America started to think he was a little nutty? The way a new tell-all book from a Pulitzer Prize winning author tells it, that was one of his good days! The Tom Cruise that writer Lawrence Wright is introducing in his expose is a guy on a mission to protect us from aliens!
That's only a small portion of what Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & The Prison of Belief wants us to believe about the guy was once the hottest actor in Hollywood. And believe it or not, it's not what makes Katie Holmes and Nicole Kidman sound like the luckiest women on the planet for getting away from Tom.
A break-down of Wright's book in the New York Post this weekend revealed a guy who is said to have broken up with a girlfriend for having the audacity to suffer cramps during dinner. Naz Boniadi's menstrual moment was reportedly a disrespect to a high-ranking crazy pants Scientologist like Cruise.
And this guy has gotten three living, breathing women to marry him? I'd take the dork living in Mom's basement at 25 over the jerk who dismisses you for daring to have a period any day of the week, wouldn't you?
It's the Scientology belief that we have alien life forms within us that are trying to destroy humankind that is getting all the buzz right now because -- hello -- Tom Cruise believes we have aliens inside us, and he wants to vanquish them!
But there's crazy. Then there's cruel.
The Tom Cruise that this book is showing us is a guy who doesn't seem to have any respect for the human life he supposedly wants to protect (you know, from the aliens). Instead he comes off as a guy who treats women like chattel: auditioning wives, dumping a wife while she was pregnant (that would be Kidman who allegedly had the DNA from her miscarried fetus preserved to prove it was Tom's), and more.
For the women in his life, this is the stuff that can be downright dangerous. And for Americans, this is the stuff that should really make us re-evaluate whether we want to watch this guy's movies. Like the racist ranting from Mel Gibson that shut down his career, these claims -- if there is truth to them of course -- really need to push Tom Cruise out of theaters.
Do you want to watch a Tom Cruise movie after reading this?
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I usually have no problem separating a persons private life with their professional life but I'll admit it...when Tom got very verbal about how Scientology makes him different and special,etc..jumping around,laughing like a loony for no reason on a web-cast...well, I'm sorry but it DOES make it harder for me to watch his movies and believe he is the character he's playing.(that makes sense,right?lol) Anyway, I CAN watch him in a movie but the whole time I'm watching it, in the back of my mind I have 'crazy tom cruise' footage playing over and over and over... lol.
Never liked him in the beginning, and still don't--the whack-job revelations don't surprise me--must have felt something was "off."
I haven't watch a movie that he has been in since he jumped on Oprah's couch. I actually can't stand to see him at all.
I lost all respect for him when he suddenly served Nicole with divorce papers. While I suspect that the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" and her nude Broadway performance may have been the catalyst, it was just a lousey and cowardly thing to do. I stopped watching any movies Cruise was in at that point. Then karma bitch slapped him in the face when Katie did the same thing to Cruise that he did to Nicole. From all the reports that have surfaced, he is a controlling SOB. I pity the next woman who gets involved because she has been for warned.