Cruise sorry about outburst
2008-12-15 22:44
New York - It took a few years, but Tom Cruise says he regrets the tongue-lashing he gave Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show the last time he was on.
Cruise says he didn't intend to come across as arrogant when he criticised Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants in 2005.
The conversation grew heated when the star told Lauer he was glib and didn't know about psychiatry.
Cruise, who has been a Scientologist for 25 years, agrees with the religion's long-running campaign against psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.
The mea culpa comes as Cruise is making rounds on talk-shows to promote his new movie, Valkyrie.
Cruise stars as a Adolf Hitler assassin Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie, which is to be released December 25.
- AP