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UPDATE: Dr. Drew Apologizes for Saying Tom Cruise Suffers From "Neglect"
Thursday June 12, 2008

Tom Cruise and Drew Pinsky

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Dr. Drew Pinsky "meant no harm" to Tom Cruise when he told Playboy that the actor's interest in Scientology is "a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood – maybe some abuse but mostly neglect," his rep tells Usmagazine.com.

"[Dr. Drew] apologizes if his comments were hurtful," the rep says.

In response to Pinsky's remarks to Playboy, Cruise's attorney Bert Fields told the New York Post that Pinksy is an "unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety [and] 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," Fields said. "The last time we heard garbage like this was from [Nazi propagandist] Joseph Goebbels."

Pinsky's rep responded to Us: "Although Mr. Field’s intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm."

In 2006, Cruise said his late, estranged father was "a bully and a coward" and a "merchant of chaos."

"He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong [he would] kick you," he told Parade.

Tell Us: Who is out of line – Tom or Dr. Drew?

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