Brooke Shields Gets Candid About Tom Cruise’s ‘Ridiculous Rant’ About Her And Postpartum Depression
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The actor is revisiting Cruise's bizarre comments nearly 20 years later in her new memoir.
Nearly two decades after Tom Cruise publicly criticized Brooke Shields for using antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression, Shields is looking back on his “ridiculous” attack.
In her new memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman,” the “Pretty Baby” star, 59, got candid about her rift with Cruise, a famous scientologist.
“I was, according to Tom, spreading misinformation,” Shields wrote. “An interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries.”
She said had Cruise “taken a public swing” at her before she “became a mother,” she “probably would have stayed quiet.”
“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,” Shields continued in the memoir, according to US Weekly. “I would have been satisfied that his behavior would speak for itself.”
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