Brooke Shields takes a number of extra lighthearted jabs at Tom Cruise in her new memoir
Brooke Shields is revisiting her extremely publicised fallout with Tom Cruise over postpartum melancholy — and his try and rectify his actions.
In her new memoir, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Previous, launched Tuesday, January 14, the 59-year-old actress will get candid concerning the Mission: Unimaginable star’s controversial 2005 remarks criticising her use of antidepressants, and the op-ed she wrote in response.
Surprisingly, she revealed that Cruise has since privately apologised to her.
The Blue Lagoon alum recalled that Cruise’s feedback got here after the discharge of her 2005 memoir, Down Got here the Rain, the place she shared her struggles with postpartum melancholy following the start of her daughter, Rowan.
“I was, according to Tom, spreading misinformation,” Shields wrote, including a pointy retort: “An interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries.”
Unwilling to remain silent, Shields printed a New York Instances op-ed defending herself and ladies going through related struggles. “I was sticking up for myself, and for women who were suffering, against irrational and dangerous comments from an unschooled actor,” she wrote.
Whereas her response drew consideration to postpartum melancholy, it additionally ignited backlash towards Cruise, who Shields revealed later apologised — although not publicly.
“It wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it,” she shared, noting the dialog passed off at her house.