Tom Cruise revealed his father, Tom Cruise Mapother III, was a “bully and a coward.” He says:

“My dad was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life, how he’d lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!”

Cruise’s mother, Mary Lee, left her husband, taking Tom, then 12, and his sister, Lee Anne. His parents divorced in 1974. Ten years later, clearer thanks to Scientology, Cruise reunited with his father, then in his late 40s and dying of cancer. Tom added:

“When I saw him in pain. I thought, ‘Wow, what a lonely life.’”

So is that the reason why Tom went nuts? I hope it’s not a trick to regain public trust because his confessions sound like a spin-off from his movie Magnolia. The problem with this guy is that you never know if fiction is inspired by his life or if his life is inspired by (science) fiction.

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