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Dr. Drew Pinksy, the host of VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, has taken it upon himself to publicly diagnose Tom Cruise… and it hasn’t gone over well. "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," says Pinksy. "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 fought back, 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.” Well, he sort of has a point, but he is a doctor, so he’s entitled to his opinion. Cruise’s lawyer continues, "He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill."
We feel this is a bit of a stretch, erratic behavior and apparent robot personality doesn’t always equal mentally ill… [People]
