Tom Cruise is hitting back at VH1 reality show doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky, over an article that's set to appear in next month's Playboy magazine that states that the actor may have experienced "serious neglect in childhood - maybe some abuse" and that's the cause of Tom's increasingly bizarre behavior.
Pinsky, of 'Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,' writes:
Pinsky writes, "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. 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."
Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, responded to Page Six over the comments, saying, "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 (Hitler's Minister of Propaganda) Joseph Goebbels."
