Tom Cruise’s lawyer compares Dr. Drew to Nazi
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?There’s a new feud in Tinseltown, and it’s already gone too far. A war of words erupted between Dr. Drew Pinsky and reps for Tom Cruise this week after the “Celebrity Rehab” doc tried his hand at a little long-distance public “diagnosis.” That’s when Team Tom took it to the next level by comparing Drew to another famous doctor, Adolf Hitler’s Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt,” the M.D. told Playboy magazine. “Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood — maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”
Maybe someone should have warned the good doctor the folks at Camp Cruise wouldn’t let a statement like that go by without a fast and furious response. Enter Bert Fields, Tom’s legal mouthpiece, who spoke to the New York Post’s Page Six about Dr. Drew’s opinion.
“This unqualified television performer, who is obviously just looking for notoriety, is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them,” the lawyer said. “He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”
- from MSNBC