Hey Dr. Drew. You should have your head examined for psychoanalyzing Tom Cruise.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Dr. Drew is the handsomest and smartest shrink ever and I’ve said time and time again that Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew makes for compelling television.
The most hilarious moment? When a drugged-out whiny Jeff Conaway caused poor Dr. Drew to come in on his “off hours” to talk him out of checking out of rehab.
Sans his usual suit and tie and looking all hunky in a black t-shirt, even old Jeff came out of his stupor to comment on Dr. Drew’s “guns”.
Anyway, Dr. Drew made a tactical error in judgment when he dared to exercise his right to freedom of speech. Come on, this is America. Don’t you know we have lawsuits?
Dr. Drew wrote in Playboy: “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. “Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology?”
Of course, this upset Cruise’s lawyer, Bert Fields who went on a big-time rant, saying:
“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.
“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.”
Maybe I wouldn’t want people to talk smack about me either, but does Tom’s lawyer really have to compare my darling Dr. Drew to a Nazi? Yeesh.
Of course, the good doctor issued a retraction. He’s very, very, very, very sorry.
I don’t know what Tom has to say about the whole thing…seems he’s letting old Bert do all the talking.
Caution to Dr. Drew: I know she’s perfect, but don’t write about Oprah either.
