Brooke Shields Gets Candid About Tom Cruises Ridiculous Rant About Her And Postpartum Depression

LOADINGERROR LOADINGNearly two decades after Tom Cruise publicly criticized Brooke Shields for using antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression, Shields is looking back on his “ridiculous” attack.In her new memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman,” the “Pretty Baby” star, 59, got candid about her rift with Cruise, a famous scientologist.

Advertisement “I was, according to Tom, spreading misinformation,” Shields wrote.“An interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries.”She said had Cruise “taken a public swing” at her before she “became a mother,” she “probably would have stayed quiet.”“I would have ignored his ridiculous rant.

I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own (deluded) agenda,” Shields continued in the memoir, according to US Weekly.“I would have been satisfied that his behavior would speak for itself.” Advertisement In a bizarre rant during a 2005 interview with Today’s Matt Lauer, Cruise said Shields didn’t “understand the history of psychiatry” while bashing her for using “dangerous” antidepressants.

He deemed her “irresponsible” for taking medication while battling postpartum depression, alleging it “didn’t cure anything.”Cruise’s comments came a month after Shields’ released her “Down Came the Rain” memoir in May 2005, in which she opened up about suffering from postpartum depression after birthing her daughter, Rowan, in 2003.Shields is also mom to daughter Grier, whom she welcomed with husband Chris Henchy, in 2006.

Shields responded to Cruise at the time by writing a New York Times op-ed.In the op-ed, she slammed Cruise for making comments that are “a disservice to mothers everywhere.” Advertisement Noting in her new memoir that Cruise’s tirade came shortly after her 40th birthday, she explained in her memoir that the inappropriate mo...