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Cruise says sorry to Shields
Brooke Shields says that Tom Cruise has apologised for publicly criticising her use of antidepressants. The 41-year-old actress says Cruise apologised in person on Thursday.“He came over to my house, and he gave me a heartfelt apology,” Shields said yesterday during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. “And he apologised for bringing me into the whole thing and for everything that happened.
“And through it all, I was so impressed with how heartfelt it was. And I didn’t feel at any time that I had to defend myself, nor did I feel that he was trying to convince me of anything other than the fact that he was deeply sorry. And I accepted it.”
The two had a public beef last year after the Mission: Impossible III star criticised her for taking antidepressants after the birth of her first daughter.
Cruise, echoing the position of Scientology, said in an appearance on NBC’s Today show that depression can be treated with exercise and vitamins rather than drugs.
Shields, who wrote Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, has dismissed the actor’s remarks as a “ridiculous rant” and “a disservice to mothers everywhere”.
“I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Mr Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression,” she wrote in an op-ed piece in The New York Times last year.
Cruise’s spokesman confirmed the celebrities made up.
“It is true that his friendship with Ms Shields has been mended,” spokesman Arnold Robinson said in a statement. ”He has not changed his position about antidepressants, which as evidenced by the black label warnings issued by the FDA on these types of drugs, are unhealthy.”