Tom Cruise thinks Dr. Drew Pinsky is a Nazi

It's no secret The Juice* likes Dr. Drew Pinsky, what with his helping of the people and all, so his comments about crazy in a Playboy interview caught our attention:

"A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt," he says in next month's issue. "Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that's a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood -- maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect."

Well, the Cruise camp is having none of it. Tom's lawyer Bert Fields fired back in the New York Post, comparing the doc to a Nazi:

"This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels."

That'd be a great argument, except that Pinsky really is a doctor, who really does doctor things, and Cruise has often talked about his abusive father and nomadic upbringing. The truth hurts, we guess. But then, Cruise knows all about psychology already, doesn't he?

And of course, being the nice guy he is, Dr. Drew caved.

"(Dr. Drew) apologizes if his comments were hurtful," a rep tells Us. "Although Mr. Field’s 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."

Sigh. Denial's not just a river in Egypt, right?

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Comments

Scientology is a cult of greed and money.
Tom Cruise is a paid actor to pretend he is a scientologist. Look at all the other paid actors on teh list Cruise is becoming as unpopular as the rest.
Travolta, the fat chick, queenof kings chick etc.

[JB]

Pinsky is dangerously close to becoming just another media hack. Does he really want to be Dr. Phil?

[Jb]

Tom,if I were born,half the size of a normal man I may be angry also,no one but the freaks of life,(such as yourself),give a crap about what you say or think,LITTLE MAN,all the money that you have still can't make you tall enough to be a MAN.

[jeff]

ok, if we're going to play the qualification game let's give Cruise some credit for saving the world from an alien attack. that should count for something.

[Xenu (DESTROYER OF ALL!)]

Oh, and bonus points for the Scientologists getting to Goodwin's Law in less than a paragraph.

Here's a group with more ideologically in common with Nazis than anyone else. Kettle, Pot?

[L. Ron]

Tom Cruise, who threatens movie studios if they don't succumb to his tantrums, should NEVER be apologized to. For someone with so much pull shouldn't be so damn prissy.

[Banglijk]

I'm not a trained psychologist but I would like to state my opinion that Mr. Fields is wrong. Tom Cruise and all the other Scientologist are mentally ill.

[Scot]

Drew never should have apologized to that kook.