http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,1491430,00.html
Diary

The Guardian
25.5.2005

By Marina Hyde

(...)

Elsewhere, this tear in the celebrity-politics continuum just keeps on giving, as Tom Cruise takes to the US airwaves to give his thoughts on a new book by Brooke Shields, in which the actress discusses how a course of drugs cured her crushing post-natal depression. Now, normally there is a fork in the road where one has to decide whether to be a movie actor or an eminent neuroscientist, but the great thing with being a Scientologist like Tom is that you can do both. "These drugs are dangerous," he explains to NBC viewers. "When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things." What a mind.

On second thoughts, the above forces a call to Tom's publicists in LA. Very much enjoyed Tom's thoughts on how to treat postnatal depression, we tell Danniella, and thrilled to discover he's diversified into dispensing medical advice. You see, we've got a summer flu bug going round the office - bit of nausea, fever, the usual - and the thing everyone's asking is: what would the star of Mission Impossible prescribe? "I'll find out and call back," comes the reply. If you would. By then we'll have spoken to a friend who suffers from OCD, and she'll be just dying to know what Sanatogen supplement can cure her. "I've got you," says Danniella. And yet, has she?

(...)

Go Back