By now we’ve all heard about Tom Cruise (who apparently thinks reading a couple of articles on the internet qualifies him as an expert in the medical field) and his little pathetic rant on the Today Show last week where he basically Told the host of the show the he didn’t know what he was talking about when it came to perscription antidepressants… but HE (Tom) did.
This week, Brooke Shields took the next shot at Cruise. The good folks at The Globe and Mail give us this:
“I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression,” Shields wrote in an editorial published Friday in The New York Times. Cruise had criticized Shields for taking the drugs before his appearance on Today last week but became particularly passionate about the issue in an interview with Matt Lauer.
“You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do,” Cruise told Lauer.
He insisted that there was no such thing as chemical imbalances that need to be corrected with drugs and that depression could be treated with exercise and vitamins. Shields called those remarks “a disservice to mothers everywhere.”
Shields said she considered swallowing a bottle of pills or jumping out the window at the lowest point of her depression following the birth of daughter Rowan Francis in 2003. A doctor later attributed her feelings to a plunge in her estrogen and progesterone levels and prescribed the antidepressant Paxil.
Look, I’m not saying which opinion is right or wrong. All I’m saying is that Tom Cruise acted like a total Jack Ass.
Hey Tom! You’re not a doctor! I don’t care what articles you’ve read. YOU ARE A FRIGGING ACTOR (a damn good one too). You get paid to pretend you’re someone else. So quit talking down to people and acting like you’re some kind of authority just because you’ve got high speed internet at home and have read a few articles. I don’t care if they were on the Scientology website
