Tom Cruise, fiancee of former Dawson's Creek star Katie Holmes, is once again making the publicity rounds, this time extolling the virtues of Mission: Impossible III and the "silent birth" technique the couple will use when the pregnant Holmes gives birth to their first child together.
In an interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC's Primetime, airing tonight, Friday, April 14, at 9 p.m., Cruise says the method of birth they're practicing is not as odd as the media has been making it out to be.
"It's basically just respecting the mother, you know, and helping to be quiet. [But] not the mother. The mother makes as much noise [as she wants]. She does what she's gotta do, OK?"
"Silent birth" is a birthing method used by Scientology, the religious faith created in the 1950s by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Cruise is a follower of Scientology.
Last year, Cruise lashed out at psychiatry and antidepressants, two things Scientology is against, in an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show. Cruise tells Sawyer that during the silent birth, Holmes will receive pain medicine if she needs it.
"We're there, you know, with doctors. Whatever the woman wants. If she needs an epidural, she's gonna get her epidural," Cruise assured.
Cruise also confirms that Holmes, who was brought up Catholic, is now a Scientologist and that their child will be as well.
"You can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist. But we're just Scientologists."
In keeping with the recent trend of celebrities discussing their sex lives in public forums, Cruise opens up in the new issue of GQ about his and Holmes'.
"Sex is about the connection," Cruise tells the magazine. "Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a great relationship, where you have communication and it's an extension of that. Where it's just free...It's spectacular."
Cruise and Holmes began dating a year ago in April. Two months later, in an ostensibly unchoreographed moment, Cruise proposed to Holmes under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, in front of photographers. The couple is expecting their first child soon, and will marry soon after.
Last year, Paramount Pictures and Steven Spielberg, the people behind War of the Worlds, were reportedly upset that Cruise's shenanigans would adversely effect the film's box-office profits.
The actor appeared on Oprah and maniacally jumped up and down on the couch. He then grabbed Oprah forcefully by the hands while strenuously declaring his love for Holmes.
Soon after, he appeared on Today and verbally scuffled with Lauer. On the show, he also attacked Brooke Shields for her use of antidepressants after pregnancy to fight postpartum depression.
On Access Hollywood, Cruise again argued with an interviewer, saying he was only against psychiatry because "I care, man, I care about all of you."
All was forgiven when War of the Worlds grossed almost $600 million globally.
Comments (28)
I really don't think Tom is as crazy as he's made out to be. He's in love and he just thought it would be nice to share it with everyone out. Now he's probably just embaressed that everyone is calling him crazy and what not.
He's a real loon
I don't know why Cruise is so crazy these days. and i can't understand why Katie would stay with someone like that.
Maybe Tom Cruise will get abducted by aliens and we won't have to hear about him anymore?
What a fiend.
And we all thought that Slutney Spears was a bad mother. Wait until this poor child sees the light of day. I hope Social Services somewhere is standing by.
So, Tom says that people can be jews, catholics but in the end they are JUST Scientologists?<br />
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Hmm, I know a few Trekkies... They are Christians, Jews and Catholics... But they are JUST Trekkies...<br />
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God, this world is going backwards...
You know, Tom Cruise is probably Gay! Look at what Mimi Rogers talked about, back when they were married. Look at how messed up Nichole was when they broke up and how they never got a child of their own. I can hardly remember when the hell it was since I last saw Tom in a serious passionate love scene (not that I want to). But in all honesty I bet that Tom is Gay and Scientology found a woman who is willing to keep it a secret, or dumb enough to think she was abducted by aliens or whatever. I really hate Katie, her face makes me sick. She is nothing but a cheap little brat. <br />
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Tom could as well just move with Michael Jackson, and make Michael look normal... Almost...<br />
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So how could Tom be the father of ANYONE? In an interview in the 80ies, he was asked about women, and he responded that he wasn't interested in them as his career was more important. <br />
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UH what?moreless
Who cares? Why do these idiots get so much attention? Don't we have better things to do then slobber over ignorant celebs?
Lets all say this together "TOM IS NUTS!!!!!!" <br />
hahaha and possibly GAY!!!! poor innocent little baby. but really what was/is katie holmes thinking?
Yeah - Weird stuff...I mean they are like 20 years apart and no I do not agree with the so called "Religion" that they chose for themselves and their unborn child but, they are people and we really should not be judging them even though we really want to...But I do think that they are trying to get other people on their cult, which isn't really cool.
Someone said Christianity is a lot more tolerant than scientology. Let me just remind you of a little something called the "crusades". Of course, those were different times and there was a constant state of war... throughout history religion has always been used as an excuse to wage war, a quick means to power or just plain old profits.<br />
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Scientology is no different. They're just a bunch of whack jobs and too agressive. Their strategy is to get rich and famous people to promote them. I keep telling myself they MUST be helding Tom Cruise's parents hostage and making him do this shit or something. I loved all his movies now I can't help but feel disgusted by how he's been acting.
Save Katie Holmes!!!!<br />
Getting pregnant by some1 you idolized as a child,how far will scientology go to recruit new members?<br />
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This cult of morons must be stopped
Katie is definitely drugged and Tom is plain insane! This is serious issure, here. They honestly need medical help! Both of them!
well there was a big thing on the last national census in the UK, people were putting Jedi as their religion because theres some rule that states that if over 10000 people put the same "Other" religion, then it has to become officially recognised
Katie Holmes is 5'8" Weighs 108, has Haze eyes, and brunette colored hair. <br />
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AND SHE IS ALL ***ED!!<br />
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Tom Cruise is the dumbest most annoying person in the world... <br />
He gets on my nerves and that stunt he pulled during War of the Worlds, is unforgivable. I doubt Spielberg will do ANYTHING with Cruise ever again. Unless, he too is a member of the ***ed club Scientology. It really scares me that Hollywood with all their money sign up to these insane cults. Cause in the end, money is power... And if I ever get forced to listen to such idiotic babble as those scientology people are regurgitating all the time... You'd read about me in the news papers...<br />
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Strange that no Star Wars fan has ever started a cult called THE JEDI order, yet, Scientology exists... This world is ***ed...moreless
Scientology is worse than Christianity... any belief system which says, without a doubt, that they're right and everyone else is wrong is just plain nuts. It's impossible to be 100% sure about anything, that monitor you're looking at? It's really just a purple monkey-lizard. Ok, so it's probably not, but it's still a possibility, it's possible to calculate the probability of it actually being a purple monkey-lizard, despite the fact that such a thing, to our knowledge, doesn't exist.<br />
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The thing that has the highest probability of existance is you, the reader/thinker, and even that isn't 100%.<br />
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So when someone tells me if I believe in "God" or any of that nonsense I tell them that it's a possibility, just not one I consider all that probable.
I think that Cruise and Holmes are both getting weirder and weirder. I think they are both nuts and kinda creepy.
Tom Cruise is a nut job! Capital NUT Capital JOB! Now he's talking about his "spectacular" sex life with Katie Holmes to GQ. Katie's family needs to get a deprogrammer and fast. <br />
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Silent birth isn't really that weird of a concept. I saw the VH1 Leah Remini Baby special and it seemed normal, no signs or anything and it was in a hospital or some kind of a medical facility.
key description of L. Ron Hubbard: "science FICTION writer"
"I would like to see how much of a silent birth Tom Cruise would be having if it was him that pushing out a 7 pound baby our a hole that was the size of a peanut."<br />
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Not to defend this whole thing, but he did say she can make as much noise as she wants.<br />
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But Tom Cruise and scientology are crazy, and Katie Holmes is even crazier to get dragged into that crap... oh yeah let's marry and get a child with a crazy person who believe in crap that was made to take peoples money.
I would like to see how much of a silent birth Tom Cruise would be having if it was him that pushing out a 7 pound baby our a hole that was the size of a peanut. <br />
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Silent by BIG FAT FANNY!!
>I really don't care for Cruise since he bashed<br />
>Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants!!!<br />
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And here I thought Tom Cruise never did anything good with his life<br />
L. Ron Hubbard had no medical background and he was not qualified to tell women how to have babies.<br />
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www.xenu.net
Cruise is a flip-flopper.
I really don't care for Cruise since he bashed Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants!!!<br />
What a pair of idiots.
The end-times are upon us! The birth of the Anti-christ looms...<br />
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*runs off screaming*