Brooke Shields is revisiting her extremely publicised fallout with Tom Cruise over postpartum despair — and his try to rectify his actions.
In her new memoir, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old, launched Tuesday, January 14, the 59-year-old actress will get candid in regards to the Mission: Impossible star’s controversial 2005 remarks criticising her use of antidepressants, and the op-ed she wrote in response.
Surprisingly, she revealed that Cruise has since privately apologised to her.
The Blue Lagoon alum recalled that Cruise’s feedback got here after the discharge of her 2005 memoir, Down Came the Rain, the place she shared her struggles with postpartum despair following the delivery of her daughter, Rowan.
“I used to be, in accordance with Tom, spreading misinformation,” Shields wrote, including a pointy retort: “An attention-grabbing opinion, coming from somebody with out ovaries.”
Unwilling to remain silent, Shields revealed a New York Times op-ed defending herself and ladies going through comparable struggles. “I used to be sticking up for myself, and for girls who had been struggling, towards irrational and harmful feedback from an unschooled actor,” she wrote.
While her response drew consideration to postpartum despair, it additionally ignited backlash towards Cruise, who Shields revealed later apologised — although not publicly.
“It wasn’t the world’s greatest apology, nevertheless it’s what he was able to, and I accepted it,” she shared, noting the dialog came about at her residence.
