Jun 12 2008UPDATE: Dr. Drew: Tom Cruise is mentally ill

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Dr. Drew Pinsky of VH1's Celebrity Rehab made the following remarks about Tom Cruise and his passion for Scientology in the latest issue of Playboy. Dr. Drew finds it particularly interesting that the religion/cult rejects psychology:

"A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that's a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood - maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect."

Tom Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields fired back in Page Six today and basically compared Dr. Drew's methods to those of the Nazi's. Wait, I thought Nazi's hated Jews not Scientologists. Damn you, American education system!:

"This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels."

If I were Tom Cruise's lawyer, I would've tried a different tact:

"Well, duh, Dr. Drew. Jesus, of course, Tom Cruise is crazy. Real keen analysis there. I anxiously await your thesis: 'The sky is blue.' Hold on, Tom Cruise is telling me the sky is actually the color of Thetan tears because they're caged in a stratsopheric mind warp that makes us all sad. Wow, seriously, Tom? Here's a cookie. Say, I think I saw a Thetan trapped in the fax machine. Go get 'em!"

Damn, I should just skip the whole bar association thing and start taking clients. Who wants to be first to get law-gified?

UPDATE: Dr. Drew's rep issued the following bullshit apology: "Although Mr. Fields's intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm."

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Thanks for stating the obvious Dr. Drew. You must've used your whole medical degree to come up with that one.

Dr. Drew Pinsky of VH1's Celebrity Rehab made the following remarks about Tom Cruise and his passion for Scientology in the latest issue of Playboy


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! WHAT??

and your sky- tears- cookie stuff was good too!!


TC.... ah, hell, you know..

"maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect."

Dr. Drew, dude, come on, try again. TC's insanity grows out of his ego-dystonic homosexuality. Not only was he abused, but it was really sick dirty sex, like, say, fristian ATM.

He's obviously mental if he married Katie Holmes

This guy will be found dead of a "suicide" within a week.

Gay and short. Just like Hitler. Coincidence?

TCGTC....Tom Cruise Goebbels the Cock.

TCLTC

Gee...what gave it away? The infamous couch jumping scene on Oprah? When he impregnated Katie 'Brainwashed and Love'n It" Holmes? When he said he was going to eat his baby's placenta? Or is it the fact that every time he open his mouth insane shit comes out? Super job there Dr. Drew....we could have never figured out that one without you.

Hmmmm... who has more credibility here?
A guy on a 'reality' show full of has-beens and never-wases, or the spokesman for a midget who is taking orders from beings from another dimension?

@6
I think not.

Tom Cruise strips, gasses, and cremates the cock?

I gassed the cock once. No biggie - he wanted anal, I wanted a burrito first, we compromised.

what's crazier - Scientology or believing all people came from Adam and Eve, and Jesus was the son of God and cam back from the dead, and Noah built an arc and lived to be 300.

Bullshit is bullshit - all religions are cults, some are just older than others

That emptiness Dr Drew perceives is TC's complete lack of a soul.

Does anyone wonder if Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ever feel uncomfortable when they are in bed, late night, watching some TV, and all of a sudden, Eyes Wide Shut comes on? How about the scenes where he is groping his naked, super-hot ex-wife? Do you think they change the channel? Or, do they sit there and watch it in stunned silence?

I should ask Xenu.

An attorney talking shit about Joseph Goebbels.....what are the odds he's a Jew?

FRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The fact that TC's publicist even felt the need to address the comment tells me all I need to know. It hit all too close to home for TC, and he was steamed because it was true. Besides, TC has admitted his father was abusive before, so it didn;t take a medial degree to make that analysis. TC can not shake it though. He wears it too close to his heart.

Dr. Drew is just mad cause Tom wouldn't let him be on top.

Dr. Drew is a jackass. According to him, if you've got any problems in your life whatsoever, you're either a drug addict or you were sexually abused as a child. If I ever see him on the street, I'll spit in his face and tell him to lay off the pipe and forgive his uncle. HIS uncle, mind. Not me - I'm not his uncle.

You would think Tom Cruises' lawyer would want to keep the nazi talk to a minimum

At least someone had the courage to say on TV what the rest of are all thinking, that no matter how pretty or rich you get, you're a total DUMB-ASS if you buy into a cult or ideology or pseudo-religion.

The whole purpose of the now-defunct discipline of PHILOSOPHY was to fight against demagogues and bullies of the intellect (like Cruise) who use their elevated station in life to try and convert the weak and unsuspecting (read Katie) into a life of servitude and intellectual perversion.

However and let's admit it, up till now, Cruise and those like him have been winning hands down. He's super-rich, Scientology is super-rich, so he MUST be right about everything. Celebrity should trump Reason, no?

Funny that Tom Cruise criticizes Dr. Drew for doing exactly what Tom Cruise did in "diagnosing" Brooke Shield's post-partum despression.

@17
Extremely high.
What are the odds he's also obnoxious, ugly, and short and fat?

Hey Uncle Ned - wearing out the thesaurus eh? moron

@17 & 25

What the fuck, guys? I'm a Jew and I NEVER mention Goebbels. And I'm not an attorney, either.

I have always liked Dr. Drew. I think he is cute.

Dear Diary,

Hi me! Well it's working... I'll have his money wrapped up soon enough. Now I don't feel nearly so bad about telling them they could take their "Dawson's Creek... Where Are They Now?" script and shove it up Tom's ass. Suri's gerbils keep disappearring and quite frankly, I'm sick of buying new ones. Oddly, all of our paper towels are piled on the floor and the fucking rolls are missing too... I love those cool acronyms I keep reading about online and I went and bought a TCLTC t shirt. Tom smiled when he saw it and refused to tell me what it meant, though he kept nodding approvingly. These Botox shots are killing my face. especially my cheeks, but I musn't ever frown or Tom will pout alot and tell me all of that "can't handle the truth" crap." Oops gotta go!

XOXOXOXOXO

Katie

p.s. I hate short men.

#27 well I'm a goebbel, and I never mention Jews!!

What the fuck is a goebbel?

How the hell did Tom Cruise ever find out about the article if it was in Playboy??

Just making a statement, #26, I guess you like Scientology?

I fucking HATE when people fucking retract their comments. If you say something, mean what you say and stand by it, you obviously said it for a reason. Don't chicken out and pretend it;s not what you meant. God, DREW, grow a pair!!!!!

Sorry, I didn't mean that..

@30

A perverted turkey?

Don't listen to the guy Tom. There have been countless comments about you since you jumped up and got down but that hasn't and will never change who you are as a person and an actor.

Once your latest movie comes out this summer, folks will see the skill you have and how you do not deserve such ridicule.

Say hi to Katie for me. High fives bud.

Randal

@30

A war criminal

Hmm...I can see that..

IS IT ME OR IS TOM GETTING TALLER, MAYBE SCIENTOLGY DOES WORK?

Herbert Walker Bush, I hate Tom Cruise. I can't even excuse his idiocy as being a mental case, 'cause he's so fn annoying and worse still, uses his zillions of dollars to spread the bullshit that is Scientology.

I love his lawyer's comments. Dr.Drew's "unqualified." Yeah, 'cause the "Dr." is what, honorary? Try again, shit lick, he's an internist and addiction specialist. It's not like he's a lawyer spouting off what he doesn't know regarding medical conditions, is he now.

Meanwhile, Cruise tells rescue people from 9/11 with severe smoke inhalation damage to cure themselves by drinking cooking oil.

Why won't he just die already. Free stupid Katie Holmes so she can get into therapy, and give those kids a fighting chance to grow up not totally fd up.

Tom Cruise, you suck at life. Go away, take Mel Gibson, Spears, Lohan, Hilton and the rest of the white trash with you, and jump down the nearest active volcano. You're a retard and you don't deserve what you have.

I don't like Scientology any more than any other organized religion. They are all fairy tales.

I just don't understand why it's OK for everyone to bash Tom Cruise for his beliefs, but no one bashes a Christian for theirs.

Hypocrisy at it's best. And most Chrsitians are too brainwashed to see what they are doing.

Mental illness... no sh*t Sherlock!

You two really are cowboys.

What's your problem, Kazanski?

You're everyone's problem. That's because everytime you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.

That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous.

#26 aka benny--
did you really have to find a dictionary for ANY of those words? i guess a GED still eludes you huh?

#29...very good.

hey #43 thatgirl - who mentioned a dictionary?

Still working at McDonalds are you? That's good. aybe you can move to head fryer soon.

#40 - Usually fanatics of any religion tend to get hosed in public. Why should TC and scientology be any different?

i've never heard anyone call GWB crazy because he believes in Jesus......

Scientology Drive Thru - "I'll take one glass of Disdain to go. And a side of Pretentiousness"

I don't really think GWB qualifies as a fanatic.

I am not trying to defend christianity, but you must admit TC takes it to a whole other level. If a christian, jew, muslim, etc... did the same things we'd ripe them a new one too. Be an equal opportunity hater, not just a jesus basher.

Tom's lawyer should have said " The last time we heard garbage like this was from L. Ron Hubbard, one of the greatest science FICTION writers of all time who admitted that all the money was in religion and then went on to create this crazy shit we call Scientology-oh oops I meant Joseph Goebbels".

real smooth OSA, comparing a jew to a nazi

benny: crack a book open sometime, you might figure out the difference between scientology and all non-cult religions. i'll give you a few hints, no "religion" charges hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn the truth about their beliefs, and no "religion" sends an army of private dicks and lawyers after their critics

I just love how she's standing two steps below him in that photo. No wonder he's appearing that much taller than her.

Godwin's law. Colossal fail. TCLTC.

#40 Benny

Please click my name. Do you see other religions acting like this? Scienoltogy is more quack pschology than religion. Scientology enslaves people and can actually CAUSE people to become mentally unstable while cleaning out their bank accounts.

Say scientology is just like other religions is only saying you need to learn more about the crimes of scientology.

Dr. Drew has a shitload of college degrees and is a practicing doctor when he's not doing Celebrity Rehab or Loveline, so I'm sure he'd know what he was talking about. It's not like he's some full-of-shit quack like Dr. Phil.

Then again, any random person off the street could tell you that Tom Cruise is fucked up in the head.

Tom is my favorite actor. He is seeking someone online now. I saw him at """"""W e a l t h yR o m a n c e.c o m""""" last week. What kind of relationship is he looking for on that millionaire datingsite?

Just because someone is an actor, people think they are smart. Without Writers they can't even put a full sentence together. Actors are just a Fantasy; Tom has wet dreams that he is anything like any of the characters that he has portrayed, and this is why the public is so surprised by his real (personal) life, yes, he really is an idiot.

Get with it people, Tom is a real idiot.

I think he is mentally sick too. I wonder why he is still out and spreading the words of Scientology? Should he be in some nut house already?

pssht! scientology can cure anything! pass it along!

Umm First of all, I thought that scientologists were against psychiatrists, because of all the medications that they prescribe. The fact that Dr. Drew prescribes medications leads me to think that he is in fact, a medical doctor and a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. And by the way, it doesn't take anyone with a medical degree to know that Tom Cruise is mentally ill. Just any person with a shred of common sense. Also, it would make sense that he was neglected as a child, because as an actor, he seeks excessive attention and praise from the public. Also, he is a leader in scientology, which allows him to receive additional noteriety and respect. Dr. Drew nailed it.

Should be a good article. FINALLY, a reason to buy Playboy! 'Cuz, you know, I only get it fo the articles... :-)

Y'know, he did look a bit like hitler after I gave him a Dirty Sanchez....

He looks like Little Lord Fauntelroy in that picture. "Look at me in my big boy suit!"

I'm sure little tommy loves these pictures.
He is taller.
............................................................................................THE POOR DEVIL!!

Rules to live by. It's not a religion if they won't give you a free book. Scientology is a business.

And Kudos #24

Dr Drew is a professional guy. If he said shit it was just an offhand remark. Cruise's people obviously are so scared of their client being portrayed as "psycho" they flew off the handle.

Also, Kudos To #24 from me too.

Joseph Goebbels? Yeah that's great.
TLDR version of the story:

Dr. Drew: "The kind of behavior that Tom Cruise constantly indulges in is a textbook example of deeply rooted psychological issues."

Tom Cruise's Lawyer: "YOU NAZI!"

I can't wait for Katie to wake up and divorce this stupid fuck.

#60 - Yes, indeed.

Tom could only aspire to be Little Lord Fauntleroy and never achieve it. LLF had far more dignity and intelligence than TC could ever muster. At least, not as long as he is a Scientologist.

dr drew deserves the nobel prize in medicine.
or at least a big pat on the back for finally saying what we're all thinking!
you go, pinsky!

I am and have extremely disliked Tom Cruise for a long time now.
I am an MD, and for his lawyer to call a real doctor "This unqualified television performer " television performer???? He's a doctor address him by what he is. He's not like Dr. Phil who mayyy be called something like TV personality etc . This is a true MD we go to medical school it's a profession and a trade not something we perform.

Hes the performer pretending to save the world in every movie.

Doctors in magazines are always asked for their opinion mostly about people with DUI anorexia etc. and they always write although so and so didn't treat ....and then their comment. No actress calls out any of those docs.

I have worked in psychiatry although that is not my specialty we all work in it for a time period during medical school . It is a very real field and much needed. These people however they became that way are not safe to be with other people. Trust me if you heard what many of the people on the psych wards say about if they got out what they would do to people you would be glad this field is there and those people are being treated in a safe enviornment.

How come when he's a performer and diagnosing Brooke, or judging psych no one published an article just titled Tom Cruise wannabe doctor...he didn't treat Brooke why is he diagnosing her ? Hypocrites.

Dr Drew is not a television preformer hes a real doctor Tom cruise plays pretend for a living.

Trust me I have worked in healthcare for years and I have never had a fellow physician who DIDN'T think Tom Cruise is off his rocker....sorry Tom.
Not a single one of us with education think your normal.

Katie? no comment she is a grown adult she wants this situation / money/ fame if she doesnt she would leave. She knows what she is doing. Her personality changed, her face changed. She is not the same person anymore. She use to be so humble. One time watch an old MTV movie awards they asked her is $100 a lot she is like ahhh yea it's a lot of money giggling. Now she has 1000 shoes on her feet 20 000 birkin bags.


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I like scientology. Whilst passport-obstructed in England (not nice) so-called psychiatrists have branded me "mentally ill" - some of them have recently been jailed including for theft of land mail sent to me, and two of them became patients to a well-known mental hospital in England.

Dr. Drew probably voted for Mr. Dennis Norris alias 'Mr. George Walker Bush' and for Mr. William Harris alias 'Mr. William Jefferson Clinton', he probably believes that Ms. Mary Wallace alias 'Ms. Condoleezza Rice' is "a fabulous woman" and he probably believes it was me that nuclear bombed the U.S.A. twice in 1995 (once in May 1995 and once in October 1995) when in fact it was idiots from England including Mr. Harold Branson alias 'Mr. Richard Branson' (the obsessed nuisance that libelled me as "a mentally ill person" on U.S.A. radio in 2005 that is soon to be jailed for this).

Dr. Drew would probably refer to me as something like "the biggest idiot in the World" but there is a very rare and elite Asian book titled Land of Idiots that details Mr. Harold Branson alias 'Mr. Richard Branson' as "The worst idiot the World's ever had." and "The worst idiot there has ever been." Obviously, I have copies of this book including in my home in Bel-Air, California, U.S.A.

Go back to 1994 on U.S.A. television and I acquired the label The Rebel Billionaire from Ms. Oprah Winfrey. The obsessed nuisance, Mr. Harold Branson alias 'Mr. Richard Branson', claims that HE is The Rebel Billionaire but how? He is a retalitative recidivist that did not found Virgin, that has spent approximately twenty years of his life detained in prisons and mental institutes around the World, that has devastated the World witgh nuclear bombings, lies, deceit and many other evils and last but not least is of zero net worth.

In March 2008 in the U.S.A. an unlicensed firearm, an (unlicensed?) Police baton and some women's lingerie were found in Mr. Harold Branson's alias 'Mr. Richard Branson's' possession. It should go without saying that Mr. Harold Branson alias 'Mr. Richard Branson' was dressing in this women's lingerie on his own and soiling it.

From W.18.06.2008. to Th.1.07.2008. Mr. Harold Branson alias 'Mr. Richard Branson' in prison in England for criminal offending?

Mr. Harold Branson alias 'Mr. Richard Branson' is quoted by a mental institute in the U.S.A. (August 2007) to be "Extremely mentally ill." and "Too mentally ill to tell the truth about anything."

Dr. Drew is deluded. I AM psychiatrically qualified. Dr. Drew has much false information and a lack of information inside his mind and he lives in a deluded part of society.

its good what Dr. Drew said, and yes he is just stating the obvious, but he is the only one that is saying that Tom Cruise is "poquito loco in la cabeza" spanish for this guy needs ritalin

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