Tom Cruise Crazy on Oprah

I totally forgot Tom Cruise Crazy was going to be on Oprah today! So I missed it. But never fear! They rerun it at 11:00pm here in Chicago and my TiVo is set to record! In the meantime, I found this online and it's just as I expected. Tom Cruise spends an hour trying to take the "Crazy" out of his name. Has he succeeded?

What did you think of the interview? I'll share more of my thoughts after I've seen it.


Tom Cruise opened up to Oprah Winfrey during the first part of his interview with the chat show queen — due to air Friday — and revealed he infamously jumped on her sofa in 2005 because he was so in love with his then girlfriend (now wife) Katie Holmes and couldn’t contain himself.

Winfrey, herself, confessed the incident took her by surprise.

“When we finished that show with you jumping up on the sofa, I was like, ‘Wow. What was that?’” she tells the Top Gun star in an interview which took place in his Telluride, Colo., home. “I had no idea it was going to turn into an international brouhaha, as I’m sure you did not either.

“I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident.”

To which Cruise responded, “I just felt that way, and I feel that way about [Katie].

“I can’t even articulate it, to be honest,” he adds. “That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me.”

Of the negative response to his couch jumping, Cruise says, “It just kind of kept going.

“Those things I kind of go, ‘You just have to take in stride.’ It just kind of became a confluence of things.”

The actor, 45, also opened up about his 2005 interview with Matt Lauer, after her attacked the Today Show anchor, calling him “glib” during a chat about psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs.

“I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer,” Cruise says. “For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It’s not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this.”

“I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision,” Tom says of medicating children.

Tom also talked about the time he slammed Brooke Shields in the same 2005 interview for taking Paxil to treat post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan, saying his comments “came out wrong.”

“What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way,” Cruise says.

Shields attended his 2006 wedding to Holmes. He says the incident has brought the two of them “closer”.

Tom also talked about Scientology — the controversial cult of which he is a devout follower.

He dodged Oprah’s question about whether he feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement, but said: “It’s a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it].

“I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.

“The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others,” Cruise adds. “That’s part of being a Scientologist, and that’s who I am as a person.”

Cruise also addressed the leaked video of himself at Scientology events discussing the religion, saying the footage — which appeared online — “was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I’m actually talking to my congregation.”

“It’s [taken] totally out of context,” he adds.

And, on buying a sonogram machine for Holmes during her pregnancy, Cruise says he and and the former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actress took great pains to keep her pregnancy private. “We went in the middle of the night, and we were very excited — this is such a private moment,” he says.

“My life was already a zoo,” he says. When news leaked, “it was off the charts.

“When you’re having a baby, you just want it to be as safe and as easy as possible.”

Tom also revealed why he kept Suri hidden for so long. When the tot was born, the couple kept her away from the glare of the media. Some blogs speculated that the child was deformed. That talk, Cruise says, was “hard to hear.

“We just wanted to have our baby, have the kids and everyone get to know Suri, get the family up here and just chill and have that time that you never get back,” he explains. “You don’t ever get those moments back.”

On waiting three months to publish her photo in Vanity Fair in 2006, Cruise says, “Kate and I didn’t feel any need to [rush] it. We said, ‘Why? It’s our family.’ We just were on Suri time.”

On Suri, Cruise gushed, “She’s spectacular. She really is just magic.”

And on his marriage to Holmes being fake, Tom said, “That’s laughable to me!

“You just know that they’re trying to sell it and spin it.”

He says Holmes’ Catholic family has welcomed him.

“They’re amazing. I love them,” Cruise says. “You see why Kate is such an amazing woman — incredible integrity and strength. They’re family.”

And on his reputation: “Listen I, I feel like definitely things have been misunderstood, and there are things I could have done better,” Cruise admits. “But then there’s also that world where you go, ‘Oh, it’s been spun to such an extent that … that’s a truth also.”

He continues, “Knowing when and where to communicate, I think that’s important.

“A lot of times I was nervous giving interviews. Or I wasn’t sometimes as comfortable about things. And I realized that it’s okay.

“There’s stuff you have to just let go,” Cruise adds. “I just have to do the best I can.”

He also denied rumors he has pushed Nicole Kidman out of their adopted kids’ lives.

“No, that’s ridiculous,” he says. “We share custody. That’s what it is.”

Part two of Oprah’s interview airs Monday .