Brooke Shields’ documentary, Pretty Baby, has dredged up a public disagreement between the actress and Tom Cruise.
The movie, which debuted on the Sundance Film Festival this weekend and is called after Shields’ famously controversial movie Pretty Baby, revisits painful elements of the star’s previous, together with a sexual assault, which she first recounted to The Hollywood Reporter.
Another incident explored within the documentary is Shields’ Postpartum despair, which in the end led her to take antidepressants, prompting criticism from Tom Cruise.
At the time, Shields had simply launched her new e-book, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, whereas Cruise was doing press for his 2005 film War of the Worlds. In a dialog with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, Cruise mentioned his issues with psychiatric medication.
Cruise, who co-starred with Shields within the 1981 movie Endless Love, described psychiatric medication as “dangerous,” including that his view was unbiased of the Church of Scientology’s alternative to not use ”mind-altering psychotropic medication.”
“I’ve never agreed with psychiatry, ever. Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry and then when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I started realising more and more why I didn’t agree with psychiatry,” the actor instructed Lauer.
Shields hit again on the Mission Impossible star in an op-ed for The New York Times.
In the article, Shields addressed his interview, writing partly, “I WAS hoping it wouldn’t come to this, but after Tom Cruise’s interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show Today last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from post-partum depression.
“While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not ‘understand the history of psychiatry,’ I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from post-partum depression.”
She added, “Comments like those made by Tom Cruise are a disservice to mothers everywhere. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about post-partum depression and childbirth in general. If any good can come of Mr. Cruise‘s ridiculous rant, let’s hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease.”
Although Shields later instructed Jay Leno on The Tonight Show that Cruise apologised, the incident was addressed within the documentary.
During one scene of the documentary, the digital camera zooms in on the headline of her op-ed, “What Tom Cruise Doesn’t Know About Estrogen”.
Elsewhere within the documentary, actor Judd Nelson repeats a quote from Shields on the time that “Tom Cruise should stick to fighting aliens,” writes Variety.
Representatives for Shields and Cruise didn’t instantly reply to Fox News Digital’s request for remark.
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