Brooke Shields speaks out against Tom Cruise
Posted on July 3, 2005
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You may have heard that Tom Cruise has become a total wing-nut jackass lately, culminating most recently in his starring in what is rapidly becoming the most disappointing summer release in recent history and his interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show in which he effecctively states that Brooke Shields is a misguided idiot for using antidepressants to help her cope with post-partum depression (find the interview video if you can, it’s great train-wreckage).
Turns out this has pissed Ms. Shields off somewhat fierce, and understandably so, so over in The New York Times she’s penned an honest, insightful and intelligent editorial on a subject that probably should have remained a personal issue, but alas hasn’t:
WAS hoping it wouldn’t come to this, but after Tom Cruise’s interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show “Today” last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not “understand the history of psychiatry,” I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression.
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If any good can come of Mr. Cruise’s ridiculous rant, let’s hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease. Perhaps now is the time to call on doctors, particularly obstetricians and pediatricians, to screen for postpartum depression. After all, during the first three months after childbirth, you see a pediatrician at least three times. While pediatricians are trained to take care of children, it would make sense for them to talk with new mothers, ask questions and inform them of the symptoms and treatment should they show signs of postpartum depression.
Would it be too much to ask for Tom Cruise to now fade from sight forever among the deluge of public ridicule he is so earnestly attempting to garner? (hey, did I mention Scientology? I think I’ve shown a great deal of restraint in this post).
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That first sentence may very well be my best run-on sentence ever.
Holy crap! Look at that sentence!