Gossip: Tom Cruise, Matt Lauer
Tom Cruise has apologized to Matt Lauer for yelling at him and calling him “glib” about psychiatry during his last appearance on the Today show.
Tom Cruise this week apologized to Today host Matt Lauer for yelling at him and calling him “glib” about psychiatry during his last appearance on the show, in 2005. “I came across as arrogant,” said Cruise, whose religion, Scientology, bars psychiatric treatment. “I absolutely could have handled that better.” Cruise said he now tries to separate his work as an entertainer from his “humanitarian” endeavors.
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