For context, again within the mid-’00s, Brooke printed a memoir known as Down Got here the Rain: My Journey Via Postpartum Melancholy. In it, she mentioned taking an antidepressant after the start of her first youngster, Rowan.
In flip, Tom criticized Brooke’s use of an SSRI on The As we speak Present. Calling psychiatry “a pseudo-science,” he mentioned Brooke did not “perceive the historical past of psychiatry” and accused her of selling “harmful” medication. He as an alternative mentioned that train and nutritional vitamins ought to be used, which is in keeping with 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 melancholy.” The next 12 months, she mentioned that Tom “came to visit to my home and he gave me a heartfelt apology.”
In her new memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Outdated: Ideas on Ageing as a Lady, Brooke reportedly mentioned of the apology, “It wasn’t the world’s greatest apology, however it’s what he was able to, and I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 most likely would have stayed quiet. I might have ignored his ridiculous rant,” she continued, as per Rolling Stone.
“I might need been content material to sit down again whereas this very well-known man hijacked my expertise to advance his personal (deluded) agenda. I might 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 means out of his depth,” in addition to furthering “discussions on the fact and prevalence of postpartum melancholy.”
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Outdated: Ideas on Ageing as a Lady is now obtainable.
