Brooke Shields Reacts to Tom Cruise's 2005 Dig, Reveals If He Ever Apologized

Brooke Shields is speaking out in her new book, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,” about her public feud with Tom Cruise.

If you don’t know, in 2005, Tom went on the Today show and criticized Brooke for being open about taking anti-depressents for postpartum depression.

On the Today show in 2005, Tom told Matt Lauer, “There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance. The thing that I’m saying about Brooke is that there’s misinformation. She doesn’t understand the history of psychiatry.”

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When she heard his quote, Brooke said she was “gobsmacked.” She wrote, “Had Tom taken a public swing at me before I became a mother, I probably would have stayed quiet. I would have ignored his ridiculous rant. I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own (deluded) agenda. I would have been satisfied that his behavior would speak for itself.”

She added, “I was never one to find myself in a public feud.”

“Sitting quietly and letting myself be attacked might have been my approach a decade earlier — I might have even regretted sharing my story or felt insecure that maybe my career was stalling while a powerful male movie star was singling me out, sure that I’d never stand a chance in that fight — but now I was emboldened by life experience,” Brooke added.

She said he eventually apologized.

“It wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it,” she added.

Meanwhile, Brooke revealed something else Tom did to her and it involves a Christmas gift.

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