Tom Cruise’s Oprah Winfrey interview part 1
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Hot Momma
In part 1 of his 2 part interview with Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise is asked a lot of questions regarding things that have dogged him in his recent past. And actually he gives a reasonably normal and rational interview. Cruise’s interview with Oprah Winfrey Friday was sparked by the 25th anniversary of the release of “Ricky Business,” but was more about fixing his ailing public image.
The two (Cruise and Winfrey) hadn’t been together since the famous couch jumping interview and Oprah admitted to being a little nervous going into revisiting with Tom. UsWeekly provided some quotes from the interview. So asked about the couch incident, Tom calmly explains that he jumped on Oprah’s couch because he was just “so in love” with Katie Holmes, and he didn’t know how else to express it.
Cruise tells Winfrey, “I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her. I can’t even articulate it, to be honest,” he adds. “That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me.”
Of the negative response to his couch jumping, Cruise says, “It just kind of kept going. Those things I kind of go, ‘You just have to take in stride.’ It just kind of became a confluence of things.”
Well at least he seems to at least be able to understand that the results weren’t a great thing for his career.
Next Tom’s asked about freaking out on Matt Lauer, when discussing psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs and Brooke Shields, a few weeks following the Oprah couch jumping. Tom says that he regretted criticizing Brooke Shields, who admitted to taking Paxil for post-partum depression. He says he regrets mentioning her in any way but is glad it helped bring them together now as friends.
“I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer,” Cruise says. “For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It’s not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this.”
(Cruise now says of medicating children, “I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision.”)
Winfrey next questions whether Cruise feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement:
“It’s a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it],” he says. “I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.
“The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others,” Cruise adds. “That’s part of being a Scientologist, and that’s who I am as a person.”
In January, videos leaked online of Cruise at Scientology events discussing the religion. He says of the video footage leaking online in January:
“It was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I’m actually talking to my congregation. It’s [taken] totally out of context,” he adds.
A key response Cruise also said “But from now on when I’m dealing with my humanitarian issues, I’ll talk about my humanitarian issues, and when I’m promoting a film, I’m just going to promote the film. And that’s just the way it’s going to be.
It looks like Cruise has learned his lesson, that sometimes your personal beliefs can get in the way of your profession!
The clip below is the first few minutes of the interview where Oprah arrives at Cruise’s Telluride, Colorado estate. He is greeted by Tom and Katie. Katie only sticks around a little bit. The rest of this clip is Tom showing Oprah his home. It’s kind of interesting actually.
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