Tom Cruise apologizes to Brooke Shields
The actor criticized her last year for taking antidepressants
American actor Tom Cruise has apologized to her colleague Brooke Shields for criticizing her for taking antidepressants after giving birth to her daughter, Rowan, from her, the "Blue Lake" star said. Shields, 41, explained that Cruise called him on the phone and stopped by her home Thursday to forgive him. "He has sincerely apologized to Me," Shields said Friday night in an interview on NBC television.
"He impressed me that he was so honest. I did not feel at any time that he had to defend me or that he wanted to convince me of anything other than that he was very sorry. I accepted the apology," said the actress.
Cruise last year criticized Shiels for using the drug "paxil" against depression after giving birth to his first daughter, Rowan, in 2003. The actor is a follower of Scientology, a religion that maintains that depression should be treated with exercise, vitamins and therapy, and not with medicines.
His spokeswoman, Arnold Robinson, confirmed in a statement that the two actors have made peace, but insisted that Cruise has not changed his mind on antidepressants, which he described as "unhealthy." The conflict emerged in an interview in June last year, in which Cruise criticized the use of drugs to treat depression, called psychiatry "pseudoscience" and lashed out at Shields.
The actress responded in an opinion piece in The New York Times in which she said her comments were "ridiculous." "I did not love drugs. Indeed, I stopped taking them prematurely and had a relapse where I almost crashed my car into a wall, with Rowan in the back seat. But those drugs and the therapy sessions were what They saved me and my family, "Shields said then.
Shields explained her experience in detail about hers in a book on depression she published last year, in which she said she took antidepressants to combat the suicidal thoughts that plagued her after giving birth to her daughter. . The actress, who was first married to tennis player Andre Agassi, later married television writer Chris Henchy, with whom she has had two daughters, Rowan and Grier.
