Brooke Shields Talks Tom Cruise Postpartum Rant

For context, again within the mid-’00s, Brooke printed a memoir known as Down Got here the Rain: My Journey By means of Postpartum Melancholy. In it, she mentioned taking an antidepressant after the delivery of her first youngster, Rowan.

In flip, Tom criticized Brooke’s use of an SSRI on The At present Present. Calling psychiatry “a pseudo-science,” he stated Brooke did not “perceive the historical past of psychiatry” and accused her of selling “harmful” medicine. He as a substitute stated that train and nutritional vitamins needs to be used, which is according to Scientology’s beliefs.

Subsequently, Brooke wrote an op-ed for the New York Instances the place she aptly wrote, “I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has by no means suffered from postpartum despair.” The next 12 months, she stated that Tom “came visiting to my home and he gave me a heartfelt apology.”

In her new memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Previous: Ideas on Growing old as a Girl, Brooke reportedly stated of the apology, “It wasn’t the world’s finest apology, however it’s what he was able to, and I accepted it.”

“Had Tom taken a public swing at me earlier than I turned a mom, I in all probability would have stayed quiet. I’d have ignored his ridiculous rant,” she continued, as per Rolling Stone.

“I might need been content material to take a seat again whereas this very well-known man hijacked my expertise to advance his personal (deluded) agenda. I’d have been happy that his conduct would converse for itself,” Brooke added. “A decade earlier — I might need even regretted sharing my story or felt insecure that perhaps my profession was stalling whereas a strong male film star was singling me out, certain that I’d by no means stand an opportunity in that battle.”

Fortunately, writing the op-ed gave Brooke the chance to talk towards “irrational and harmful feedback from an unschooled actor who was talking method out of his depth,” in addition to furthering “discussions on the fact and prevalence of postpartum despair.”