My thoughts of what went wrong with Cruise:
1. He fired his publicist Pat Kingsley and hired his sister, fellow Scientologist Lee Anne DeVette
2. and shit like this started happening:
"As time went on, of course, the larger problem became the film's star himself. Cruise, known for being as consistent and charismatic a star as has ever existed in Hollywood, suddenly parted ways from his agent and hired his sister to replace her. Apparently, that former agent was the only person keeping him in check, because the star immediately seemed to undergo a transformation that has rendered him practically insane in the eyes of the public. Things started with Cruise's suddenly more vocal support of his religion, Scientology. From there an abrupt relationship began with Katie Holmes, a fact that seemed suspicious at the time as a potential public relations ploy since both Cruise and the new object of his affection had huge summer blockbusters in the making. After the scrutiny of the romance began, Cruise hopped on Oprah Winfrey's sofa and declared his love for the comely young lass, then proposed to her in Paris.
It didn't end there, of course. Cruise's antics continued as he began a feud with Brooke Shields over her decision to take prescription drugs for her post-partum depression. As a Scientologist, he knew what was good for her, you see. Somehow, none of this had much effect on his summer 2005 film, War of the Worlds. The trouble is, Cruise stayed very much in the public eye over the next several months, allegedly impregnating Holmes. As it turns out, their child is born just days before Mission: Impossible III makes its debut in theaters - and on the same day that Brooke Shields gives birth herself."
3. saying shit like this: Tom Cruise (GQ Magazine) "I can cure heroin addiction in 3 days
4. And: "The 43 year-old star told America's GQ magazine: "I'm going to eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm going to eat the cord and the placenta right there." Cruise, a devoted Scientologist, made the decision after reading the afterbirth contains important nutrients and vitamins. uhhh...
5. Cruise couch jumping: From ABC News: "It was wilder than it was appearing to me," Winfrey said. "I was just trying to maintain the truth for myself because I couldn't figure out what was going on. And what I was prepared for was the dance that happens when you're doing celebrities — when you know they're not going to tell you, but you're going to ask anyway, and then you try asking another way." Instead of the "dance," Winfrey was confronted with an Irish jig on top of her furniture. "I was not buying — not buying or not buying," Winfrey said of Cruise's declarations of love. "That's why I kept saying to 'you're gone, you're really gone.'"
and that photogs "suicide" made me wonder what happened to these guys:
In June 2001, Cruise filed a second $100 million lawsuit, this time charging defamation against Michael Davis, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who allegedly offered to sell a videotapes which he claimed showed Cruise engaging in homosexual activity.
On May 2, 2001, Cruise filed a $100 million lawsuit against porn actor Kyle Bradford (aka Chad Slater) charging that Bradford/Slater had issued a false story claiming that he and Cruise had engaged in a homosexual relationship.
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