The Legal Scare Tactic Sorta Worked
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Dr. Drew Pinsky issued the following sort of apology to Tom Cruise on Thursday after raising questions about Tommy Boy's mental health:
Dr. Drew meant no harm to Mr. Cruise and apologizes if his comments were hurtful. Although Mr. Fields's (Cruise's lawyer) intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm.
Dr. Drew sorta chickened out!
Way to go, Doc!
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Posted: June 12, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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They both need my B=========D in their (__(__)'s.
1st!
Tom is the next Hitler!!!
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what did dr. drew say ?
How does apologzing mean "chickened out"? I think it takes a lot to apologize, and that is obviously something that you cannot do.
I LOVE SURREY!
Dr. Drew, always taking the high road. He is awesome.
number one!!!!!!!!
NEXT!!
Re: what – go up to the red "raising questions " under the pic…..click on it….read the other post.
he's crazy.
Dr. Drew did not weenie out, he states in his statement that the Cruise camp is attempting to slander him ("Although Mr. Fields's (Cruise's lawyer) intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew,") which means he's calling BS on the Cruise camp BS.
Tom Cruise can go to hell. He is an egomaniac and a narcissist.
HaHa it's about time crazy people are made fun of by real doctors!!
i dont really see chicken out. sounds like a pretty solid defending statement on what he said and what he meant. basically he's just saying no reason for Tom to get his shit in a bunch.
But he is crazy…. It's not Dr. Drew's fault it's the truth.
Well that sucks Dr. Drew lost his backbone. He actually made a good statement regarding the way Scientology views psychiatry and didn't they slander him too?
i hate him….and u, perez. Your both eww.
Tom Cruise is his own biggest fan. Check out his own website, tomcruise.com, it sucks. It's all about good old, know it all Tom.
Dr. Drew rocks and is sexy!
Really like Dr. Drew. Mr Cruise, on the other hand, is a total whack job.
RADICAL QUEEN SAYS…..HEY QUEER BOY CRUISE….YOU ARE A DISPICABLE SON OF A BITCH…YES…I THINK YOUR UGLY AS SHIT MOTHER IS A BITCH….AND AS YOUR HER DISGUSTING SPAWN THAT MAKE YOU AN SOB!!!! THAT CULT OF SCIENTOLOCRAP YOU BELONG TO IS REPULSIVE…AND SO IS THE CLOSET YOU LIVE IN….YOU FUCKING PIG. SO I SUGGEST YOU TAKE THE BIGGEST DILDO IN YOUR VAST COLLECTION…24 INCHES OR MORE I'M SURE….SHOVE IT ALL THE WAY UP YOUR INCREDIBLY LOOSE BUTT HOLE, JUMP IN YOUR PLANE, FLY OUT OVER THE PACIFIC AND NEVER COME BACK….THE PUBLIC DETESTS YOU NOW PIG BOY, SO TAKE MY ADVICE AND DISSAPPEAR PERMANANTLY….YOU STINKING ASS WIPE.
Tom is disgusting AND clearly mentally ill! What a freak. Rock on Dr. Drew…Don't let the crazy cult members bring you down.
Dr. Drew is not only one of the smartest men in Hollywood but he's also one of the sexiest. I think Tom feels a little threatened.
Re: chris – only in your mind, dumbass!!!
haha, and scientology fires back…….their big words don't scare me, dr. drew is probably right
He should have stood by what he said, and issued no apology.
My opinion, Part 1: (also posted on another article)
Dr. Drew hit Cruise's psyche on the money. Tom is obviously in the throes of paranoid delusion, believing that he has been handpicked by 'god' to change the world. This is plain to see in his egotism, his controlling and manipulative ways with the press and the people around him, and his self-indulgent beliefs that "only he" can save people. In his actions, his speech, his body language, and his treatment of those around him, he parlays the notion that inside, he believes he is the chosen one destined to bring the world to salvation.
(Call it the "Jesus-wanna-be" syndrome, if you will.)
But beware of false prophets, folks. NO religion will ever "save" the planet, and no ONE human being is higher or more "chosen" than the other. This is a mind-set placed into our psyches by the very people who would choose to control and lead us - the very design of churches and religions EVERYWHERE who dare to speak out with: "ONLY WE HAVE THE WAY!"
This is HUMAN EGO, period. And in its worse-case scenario, those such as Cruise, who literally believe they ARE the chosen one, are unfortunately NOT acting; part of their delusional psychosis is that they ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT.
TOM CRUISE DID THE SAME THING TO BROOKE SHIELDS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT A FREAKIN' HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!
If you've ever had the Scifags on your back, you'd understand why.
He reclarified his position and noted squarely that the Scifags are after him.
Well done I say. Words like "if" are important.
It's a fairly legal "Fuck you" actually.
My opinion, Part 2:
As a child, Tom Cruise suffered neglect and abuse from his control freak father, and was babied by his mother to the point of egomania. He has never left the "highchair" of his youth, and therefore has the expectation that all around him should cater to his needs.
His mother worships him, (perhaps taking her "need" to be bullied - never healed - from his father's hand to her son's), and has neglected in the years of his childhood to teach him that he is the same as everyone else, and deserves no better nor worse treatment than any other human being.
(This "worship"-like attention is easy to see in Cruise's selection of a wife: he handpicked a woman who was psychologically inclined to perpetuate the belief that he is "special.")
Further, while Cruise has stated that his father was a "bully" and a "control freak," it is obvious that the twig hasn't fallen far from the tree. He uses his father's bully tactics with the press, with those close to him, and (quite obviously) in his choice of lawyers.
He is seriously messed up, people. The most dangerous criminal minds of all are the ones who completely and utterly believe they are better than everyone else, and above the laws of human behaviour.
Dr. Drew is bang on in his interpretation. I am looking forward to the day when someone is able to "break through" to Tom, and disintegrate the nonsense and mind control that is Scientology.
awww what a dissapointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck you tom cruise! your movies are shit!
I would chicken out as well. Good for Dr. Drew. I don't wanna mess with XENU. I don't wanna die!
aww i love dr. drew!
tom is such a db….hes just mad because dr. drew is a million times smarter than him and can diagnose him as a psycho, mental case in 5 seconds. (which i think he has a napoleon complex because hes so short but MAJORLY controlling and filled with LOONEY SPACE ALIEN BULLSHIT!) oh…and he should be on some pharmies for his dyslexic disorder…
Re: jess – Yeh. Scared we might find out that all his "sexual allure" and "manly manliness" were a result of clever marketing backed by C0$
Like Mz Travolta's return to fame.
He had such a great point, and then to Bitch out like that is just so cowardly. The man has nothing to lose, he's a doctor..not a celeb. Cruise is loony…and KATIE is losing is it as the days run long. Somebody needs to intervene…too bad DREW couldnt have just stuck 2 his Guns!
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who gives a f*ck about Tome Cruise he's a dumb ass!
tom cruise is a fucking douchecock
Re: Lara – Wow. Awesome and bang on the nail.
:-)
TC is just jealous because Dr Drew is an MD, a psychiatrist, a full professor, etc etc and TC is a brainwashed high school-drop out who couldn't tell his head from a hole in the ground unless the scientolonuts told him. Team Dr Drew!!!
Re: Lara – Smart. Very smart. You're completely spot on.
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That is a great semi-retraction. Drew is caving in so not to go through legal expenses while still conveying that CRUISE IS a LOON!!! As are all who believe in Scientology. But that's for another thread.
Re: Capta –
yo son….you got some major issues just like the tommy tootles kid we're talking about now. maybe you should talk to dr. drew & get some help…better yet, don't procreate because the world does NOTT need more people like you.
Don't you think the Cruise camp is protesting just a wee too much over this? The reaction is over-zealous, as are all things Tom Cruise, of course (LOL!!!).
Dr. Drew did take the high road and the Cruise camp acted like petulant children: its attacks were offensive, abusive and extremely unprofessional (similar to Tom's rants against Brooke Shields and Matt Lauer, and the infamous Oprah couch-jumping incident).
I would think somebody needs 'help' out there…
Dr. Drew didn't really chicken out, just like he didn't head-on insult Cruise in his comment. He's too smart to take on the pitbull lawyers Scientologists surround themselves with. If anything, I'm glad he said what he did publicly. Maybe if more public figures described Scientology as a cult, like it really is, less people would fall prey to it. And for Tom Cruise to call Dr. Drew a credential-less TV personality is hilarious… Dr. Drew is the one with the degree, while Tom "I can make public comments on everyone's mental health" Cruise has nothing but a fancy lie-detector/e meter and a lot of money.
I HEART DR. DREW. I HAVE THE PRIVLEDGE OF WORKING WITH HIM. HE IS THE SMARTEST MAN I KNOW! LIKE WHOA!
Tom is just so glib. And stupid.
I use to like Tom Cruise until he showed his crazy. Now I really don't like him picking on Dr. Drew. Tom Midget is an asshole and your career is OVER Tom. Come and get me you freak. I ain't scared. I got Jesus.
tom cruise is freakin weird as well as his robot wife katie holmes
Tom Cruise is a total maniac. He said whatever he wanted about people like Brooke Shields and Matt Lauer but whenever anyone has an OPINION about him, he tries to sue them. I HATE HIM, and Scientology is a crock of shit for weak minded people!!!!
Tom is mental. We have all seen the way that he has turned his "wife" into a yes sir robot. Tom is a head game player. He loves to be in control. I am sure if his wife wanted to leave him she couldn't.
Dr. Drew didn't say anything I wasn't already thinking about Tom Cruise and I am a RN, BSN, MSN.
Come on Tom, come out of the closet or they're going to have to send R. Kelly in there with his gun.
READ THIS…Toms new name: Tom "mental Nazi" cruise.
Dr. Drew is SOOOO HOT!!!!
I love Dr. Drew. Tom's movie's are good but let's face it his home life is totally strange!
Re: Lara – RADICAL QUEEN SAYS…. GIRL….YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR OWN ADVICE COLUMN….YOUR ANALYSIS OF QUEEN TOM AND THE CULT OF SCIENTOLOCRAP HE BELONGS TO, IS RIGHT ON THE MONEY !
Tom Cruise is a freak! Have you ever googled scientology (I'm not gonna even capitalize it). They think evil spirits from ET aliens are the problem. It's psycho! I've never like him (too short, not good looking), but his adherence to scientology is whacked!
Go away, you freak! If I were to go out on the street and talk about the stuff they believe, I'd be carted away to a padded room.
Tom is a super Freak and is an alien who wants you to join his cult so he can eat your brain and save your skin! to make more alien babies like the first scab he "created", Suri….
UM?! didnt tom on the opera show say something like " say what you want about me, but leave my family alone? Now his lawyers are going after dr.drew??
this is a perfect example of the creepy scientology attack machine … Dr Drew doen't need this crap right now … CR2 is filming
tom crusie is a crackpot anyways … you might want to read the 1st amendment Tom.
Sad world thid becoming that someone has to apologize for an opinion.
Sad world this is becoming that someone has to apologize for an opinion.
Re: Lara – I love this.
Face it Tom, you are psychotic and you do belong to a cult. Truth hurts.
WHEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON DR. DREW'S APOLOGY, SCIENTOLOGY POPE TOMASINA CRUISE THE FIRST, SAID:
………… "Dr Drew tried to limit me by analyzing me. Reaching a state of Empty taught me a lot of things, things about myself. I realize now that *I* was imposing my own limit on how pretentious I could be. Now I see self-indulgent pretension as a bottomless well where I will never find a bottom, because I AM a 'bottom.'
Okay, so, like…all my success years ago really put my head, umm, like, put pressures in my head. My mind. No, my head, I mean head. Right? But Diarrhetics and purgin' my way to Empty made me more good. It has also, like, really helped with my career decisions lately too. Oh dear, look, my hives have come back! Haaaa-haaaa! A-ha-ha-ha, hoo, ohh, ah, boo-hoo, boo-hoo!
…I'm cukoo for coco puffs….I'm cukoo for coco puffs!"
…………THERE …..SO WISE AND SO ALL KNOWING! AMAZING ISN'T IT?
I am not a Dr. so crazy loco cruise can't sue me. I am not afraaid of his power ($$$ peope have made him rich by seeing his movies, I haven't) because, unlike Dr. Drew, I don't practice, HOWEVER, my diagnisis is that Creep Cruise is totally fully complete INSANE, LOCO, even when of late he is trying to prove otherwise (he has a movie coming up, so he wants to "prepare" the road… if you know what I mean.) I do not trust him.
NO just because Dr. Drew issued that statment doesnt mean he chickened out! Dr. Drew is a class act and always has been just doing the right thing under the circumstance to really have nothing on going with psycho Cruise. Chickened out? NO. Dont see it. Just being the bigger man, graceful and all, …awesome Drew as usual.
Tom Cruise is such a control freak nut idiot. Get a grip Tom! Damn.
Why bother apologizing Dr. Drew, everyone already knows that Tom Cruise is a complete nutcase and fucking idiot.
Yeah, like nobody saw this coming.
Somebody please get Drews sidekick Stryker back on his meds. The guy is single handedly fuckin up lovelive.
i agree, tom is mentally off. i think he is a good person, but there is a screw loose. what i don't understand is that tom (whom only has a high school education) feels it is justified if he publicly analyzes and diagnoses people. however, when people begin to analyze him he becomes a bully. i'm amazed people let him get away with it!
Well, Dr. Drew is classy and I think that he dealt with TC in a patronizing way, such as one might treat an insolent child. Dr. Drew made nice while smacking TC upside his head with a comeback to THEM regarding their slanderous remarks (two can play that game, huh?). Anyhoo, I have thought for the past few years that TC is nuttier than a bowl of Planters…it's good to hear a professional opinion! Really, if any one shows Nazi tendencies…it would be the whole Scientologist Reich with their Aryan attitudes, …you must be cleansed of thetans or what ever…the Nazis were VERY big on cleansing…oh, my gosh…and does anyone remember TC SALUTING the portrait of LRon in that video tape!!!! Dang, he may as well have said, "Zig Heil!"
Drew is a quack just like all psychiatrists. I'd bet that 99% of people who goes and sees one of these fuckers that after the first 2 minutes they've been given a life-long label and lifetime supply of mind-bending drugs. Fucking criminals. They even label and drugs little children. Put them all in jail where they can't hurt anyone anymore. Pinsky is probably personally responsible for drugging many people himself. Fucking criminal.
At least what Dr. Drew said got out to the masses and still proves Tom Cruise is a fukcing nutter.
Re: Lara You Are FIERCE girl! – HI, this is NOncYBoy!
Wow–what a scintillating report! I especially loved the part about the "TWIG not falling far from the tree." But is he a fruit or not???
HEY TOM C'S REPS….DR. DREW WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE? OH THATS RIGHT…JUST BECAME SLAVES TO A LIL BITCH THAT EVERYONE HATES. DR. DREW OBVIOUSLY KNOWS WHAT HES TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE HE STUDIED, WORKED HARD AND WENT TO GET HIS DOCTORATE. SO FUCK YOU!! GO GET ON SOME ANTI-DEPRESSANTS AND CHILL THE FUCK OUT.
TOM CRUISE U R A MENTALLY CHALLENGED FREAK SHOW WHACKJOB!
get the hell over it please…
He didn't chicken out, he clarified. Dr. Drew uses celebrities as exmples on Loveline all the time, but I guess Tom Cruise's lawyers are dogs and were the only ones to go after him. Usually Dr. Drew is right about the celebrities too…and he's definitely right in this case but Tom Cruise will never admit to any faults or mental issues. In his mind, he's perfect and has life figured out. That guy is a psycho.
oh…….I'M SoRRY! I had no IDEA that the leader of a "religion" could also be an author of SCIENCE FICTION! hahaha wtheckk?? are you serious?? anybody that would actually believe this shit would have to have an issue with themselves. scienteology = ooooo let me take your money but i don't actually BELIEVE in science or what it has to offer to mankind. i just like cash money. but no pharmies. hm yeah nutcase egocentricccc self involvedddd oh yeah and lets worship celebrities that are drawn to our CULT.
Re: Lara –
Well it is lovely but you are IN DANGER now lady.BE CAREFUL!!!
Same thing for Dr Drew hire some bodyguards Dr!!!You need them now.
Drew pinsky went to school on how to write prescriptions for drugs. he also learned how to electroshock people. In my book the guy is brilliant. what did tom go to school for. art? please………
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Eck, Tom Cruise is such a pathetic twerp. He has a *bad* case of what my Irish gran used to call "wee man syndrome."
Don't ever fuck with the Scientologists.
TC has no more mental issues than any other power bottom
CHICKENED OUT?????? No, it's more like manning up and taking responsibility for his own actions, something which is incomprehensible to the likes of you! He must have realized that his comments were taken in the worst way possible so he did what he had to do to rectify the situation. That's what a REAL man does, rather than lowering himself to name calling and bullying. Which you know a lot about, it's how you make your living.
Dr. Drew is a well respected professional MAN. Tom Cruise WAS a pretty boy. YOU are an instigator and an oppurtunist who can't even get your facts straight.
T remember the limo rides
BEAUTIFUL SUIT >> TIE >> EYES >> GORGEOUS….and crazy!! Still love Tom Cruise!!!!!
If he was a hard core Christian nobody would say anything about his mental health. Hypocrites. That's not to say he's not mad, just as mad as everyone else.
Tom needs to grow up and quit calling his lawyers to do his dirty work for him and man up and say something to Dr. Drew if it bothered him. And why was it wrong for Dr. Drew to say what he did, but yet entirely within Tom's rights to say whatever he wants to say, when he wants to say it? Real men talk it out, not call out their legal muscles to do it for them. Crybaby.
the guy is a complete sociopath. if you want to believe in scientology (which has all the classic signs of a cult), that's fine. there's no need to attack others. they dislike psychiatrists because they'd tell them they're fucking crazy! and the truth is they are. tom keeps going on tv and attacking (and i mean attacking- you're glub, matt. you're glub!- who the fuck says that?) everyone because of their beliefs but you try to say anything about his wacko cult and he talks to you like your a complete idiot who knows nothing because you aren't a scientolofreak like him- right dr. drew? tom can't even call him a psychiatrist! he has to call him an unqualified tv performer. he's qualified - he went to school for it, wack job! hey tom, your certifiably crazy! i think we should kidnap him and brainwash him, kind of like the scientolofreaks did! and like he did to katie. poor katie. and suri. they have no chance.
Tom Cruise disgusts me. This is why I will never spend one more dime, nickel or penny to see one of his films again. Is he that stuck up, self-conscious and paranoid??? It proves he's an egomaniac who wants so bad for the public to worship and love him. Sounds like I've already diagnosed Tommy Boy! I swear every time someone says anything remotely critical about him, he freaks. Fucking whackjob.
THAT'S it!! FUCK YOU TOM. Now you're messing with my Dr. Drew. A REAL DOCTOR even if he has decided to HELP people on television.
I believe Dr. Drew is dead on with his statement. FUCK TOM!!! He thinks he owns the world.
Re: Jill –
YEP JILL! I thought it was a great response too. I don't see it as cowardly. I see it as smart. He actually didn't retract anything…just saying sorry your feelings got hurt…like you know, when you tell someone the truth but you can say it wasn't to hurt your feelings. FUCK TOM!!!!!! I can't stand him now after this. Now he's messed with the good doctor (WHO IS A DOCTOR not like that ass Dr. Phil).
Dr. Drew did NOT chicken OUT. and HE Truly helps people.
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Chicken? Drew is pushing it in Tom's face….he didn't retract his statements. He basically said, " I'm sorry you're so defensive Tom, I was just using you as an example of ThE CRazY". Drew stood his ground and made the obligatory public statement in response to a very powerful Hollywood figure. Go DREW!
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