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What always amazes me about celebrities is that these dramatic personal revelations always seem to surface about the time they have a film coming out. Why choose right now to come out (sorry, bad choice of wording) to reveal his child abuse.

TOM Cruise has told how he was bullied and beaten by his father as a child. He said: "He was a bully and a coward ... the kind of person where if something goes wrong they kick.

"It was a great lesson in my life - how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang.

"For me it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him'. There's that anxiety."

When Tom was 12 his mother left, taking him and his siblings. He said: "My mother was the one who rose to the occasion.

"She held three jobs. She said, 'We are going to get through this'."


Tom Cruise: "My Dad Beat Me" [Mirror]




31 Comments

April 5, 2006 6:44 PM

Oh no, here it goes again! This s@%t is getting old. Oh, I have been in the news in a while (which I b*#@h and moan when I am because I hate the paparizzi and gossip), so let's let everyone know I was beat my dad or molested by my uncle. I don't believe it, every week a new celeb comes out and tells everyone the same sad old story. They need to get more original, their PR people aren't doing thier job. Why have he waited all this time to tell? That is sooo lame!

April 5, 2006 7:02 PM

Maybe his dad should have taken some vitamins. That would have cured him.

April 5, 2006 7:13 PM

So is this why he turned out to be gay?

April 5, 2006 8:59 PM

Anniem--That would be a perfect topic for a new Matt Lauer interview. Hee!

Wow, that sounds familiar. It could explain why he signed up with Scientology, given that it was founded by a woman-hating, black-magic practicing, baby-aborting, manipulative, abusive rat-bastard.

April 5, 2006 9:09 PM

his father didn't beat him hard enough...

jacka$$

April 5, 2006 9:33 PM

Tom doesn't do anything without a reason - even would stoop to regurgitating family secrets for the sake of his newest film.

April 5, 2006 10:11 PM

Were Tom Cruise's teeth actually ever like that?

April 5, 2006 10:32 PM

That explains why he's so angry. This guy is a loose cannon and I hope his kid doesn't have teeth like that!

I actually heard this story on Paul Harvey, "The Rest of the Story" a couple years ago.

The head injury Tommy Boy obviously suffered explains a lot now

Probably got kicked in the head a few times. It explains everthing! And yeah, Lina, that explains why he decided to sign on to a psychopathic pseudo-religion by a nasty, nasty little man. It reminds him of Daddy!

I guess Katie and her alien spawn weren't garnering enough press for him, so he decided to sell a few family memories too!

April 6, 2006 6:31 AM

Well, one, obviously his mother didn't have a "quiet birth" when he was born, two, his father didn't take his vitamins, and three, he is being punished by Xenu for having a baby girl who can't be named Layfayette Ronald Hubbard.

And he thinks Matt Lauer is glib?

April 6, 2006 8:06 AM

Yowza -- seems like Daddy taught his son well: "He'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then bam"...
Katie -- are you pasting this in your great big collage book of WTF-Have-I-Gotten-Myself-Into, sweetie?

April 6, 2006 8:37 AM

K...being beaten as a child he should have even more respect for psychology cuz that explains why he is SOO effed.

His dad should have never stopped beating him...even when he was dying of cancer...he should have IV'd him in the head

April 6, 2006 9:21 AM

A new low for Tom Cruise. To trade on his dead father's sorted pass to gain publicity for his coming movie is beyond indecent. It's impossible (mission impossible) for me to feel sorry for this pathetic man desperately grasping for sympathy and understanding.

He just doesn't get it.

April 6, 2006 9:24 AM

That is the face of someone who masturbates during Deliverance.

April 6, 2006 9:28 AM

Oh, and threatening to sue and litigate at the drop of the hat is not being a bully!

April 6, 2006 10:35 AM

Could Tom be MORE pathetic?? How much publicity does this freak need?? This guy needs psychotrophic drugs AND therapy. He should go to Brook Shield's doctor.

April 6, 2006 12:05 PM

This story gets scarier by the minute. If Cruise really was abused as a child, (and I'm not so certain this is actually true) it explains his vicious treatment of Katie Holmes. What a cruel and sadistic man, to deny her proper medical care (and PAINKILLERS) so he can feel all-powerful. And heterosexual. This Sunday's parade magazine pulls no punches in describing Katie's zombie-like thousand-yard stare.

April 6, 2006 1:43 PM

If he wasnt really beaten by his father, he needs to be. Honestly!! What a friggin idiot.. geezzzz

April 6, 2006 1:49 PM

This explains why Tom is crazy. His father probably beat any intelligence out of him.

April 6, 2006 2:22 PM

When Tom was 12 his mother left, taking him and his siblings. He said: "My mother was the one who rose to the occasion.

"She held three jobs. She said, 'We are going to get through this'."


Oh? Is that why he lived with his grandmother right here in Louisville, KY and went to St. Xavier High School? I love he like to leave that part out. Lies, lies, lies.

sounds to me like he's just tryna put blame on anybody to excuse his weirdness. i guess his dad beat the heterosexuality out him too then, right?

April 6, 2006 4:40 PM

Not condoning child abuse here, but I'm sure this was typical punishment for that time. Who didn't get whipped with a belt back then? Notice he doesn't mention what type of abuse he endured. And can you imagine what a smart ass little shit head he was as a kid? Probably called his dad "glib" after he was instructed to go mow the lawn. My parents woulda whipped me too.

April 7, 2006 8:52 PM

chelsea:
"Oh? Is that why he lived with his grandmother right here in Louisville, KY and went to St. Xavier High School? I love he like to leave that part out. Lies, lies, lies."

yes, there is something called chronology.
think ia little please.

read biography. it is no lies, already said, also what do you want him to say since he got no right to say what he thinks?
you hypocrites, get a life and let him be.
you'll end up in hell to be so nasty.

You go Tom! you did a great carrer alone; good luck for everything.

April 8, 2006 7:24 PM

hey helen: Tom doesn't believe in Hell remember hes a scientologist? Hell is tryng to deliver a baby without painkillers and not being able to verbalize your pain. Hell is trying to endure his rantings about a dead father. We bury the dead. Don't we? We don't exhume them to bring up past transgressions. The sins die with the soul. I was spanked as was my siblings and guess what I turned out okay. That was the time. I just can't stand the fact that he comes up with these things to promote himself. Did he address the issue. Is he in a charity that fights for abused children? Abuse is what hes gonna get when he tells Katie to shut up during childbirth.

April 9, 2006 9:41 AM

oh helen please take a long walk off a short pier.

you sticking up for tom cruise isn't going to get you any closer to him. he has become a horrible brainwashed maniac.

April 9, 2006 3:17 PM

Why should we be taking the word of a guy who goes around professeing his love for Katie, then knocks her up and doesn't marry until its convenient for him. It takes a few minutes a city hall. If he truly loved her he would have married her before the whole world has got wind of her pregnancy and made her look decent. Now all I can think of is unwed mother with out of wed lock child. That child will be forever tagged out of wedlock all because Mr. Tom thinks it doesn't fit his timeline. Give me a break.

April 10, 2006 4:37 PM

I hate Tom as much as the next sane person. I agree with most of what everyone here is saying with a couple of exceptions. No one deserves to be abused by a parent. Whether it is true or not, only he knows. But saying that his father should have hit him harder really only hurts those out there that have had to live with abuse. It is just not nice to say. And the whole no pain killers and silent birth thing has gotten out of hand. I had two children without painkillers. It is possible. And I would have appreciated the silence instead of strangers (nurses) yelling push every two seconds. And I am in no way a scientologist.

Small Fry. wrote: And can you imagine what a smart ass little shit head he was as a kid? Probably called his dad "glib" after he was instructed to go mow the lawn. My parents woulda whipped me too.

HAHA Small Fry that was just priceless!!! I was thinking the same exact thing! Seeing how he is now makes me think this guy was the most annoying, smartass little kid on his block. His dad probably had to whoop his butt because back then they didn't have ritlin (sp?) to calm his ass down.

So let me get this straight... if all the stories in Hollywood celebs tell about being abused are true... then Being Abused = Multi-Million Dollar Pay Check and Fame? So are they trying to tell me I'd be doing my kid a favor if I beat the crap out of him too? There's just too many of them crying wolf anymore for it to be believable.

For the few who really were abused my heart goes out to them but it disgusts me the ones that just do it for the publicity. I bet Tom got this off a Lindsay Lohan video *PIFF*

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