Brooke Shields Reignites Antidepressant Controversy
January 14 2025
During a 2005 interview with then “Today” show host Matt Lauer, actor Tom Cruise claimed that Brooke Shields was “irresponsible” for taking medication for postpartum depression because “it didn’t cure anything.” Fast forward two decades and Shields, in a new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, lets the public know that Cruise “eventually” apologized for shaming her explaining that “it wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it.”
Gee, that’s so big of the actress considering that Cruise was accurate in his statements. Shields might not have liked the delivery, but Cruise was right that antidepressants “didn’t cure anything.” More galling, though, is that Shields continues to get it wrong. Shields says of Cruise’s remarks that “it was so ridiculous to me. It’s not about the moral thing, or the right thing, or the good thing. It’s about who has more power.”