'You gotta understand, I really care about Brooke,' he told Matt Lauer. He went so far as to call psychiatric medications 'dangerous,' also calling his interviewer 'glib.'Īlthough Cruise disagreed with Shields' preferred form of mental health care, he explained that he still wanted the best for the former model. 'The thing I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation and she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry,' Cruise told Lauer. According to Cruise, medication and talk therapy 'mask' the underlying problem - instead, he recommended alternatives, like vitamins and exercise.
'Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry, and then when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I started realizing more and more why I didn't agree with ,' the 'Top Gun' actor told Matt Lauer in a heated 'Today Show' interview.