to feel a bit sorry for Tom Cruise

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Don't flame me! I'm not even a fan of the man - honest. He just seems to have the whole world of Mumsnet against him and I don't see what's wrong with him other than the Press have got it in for him.

Nicole Kidman seemed very happy when she was married to him, I remember reading an interview with her in which she talked about his kindness and how he "never went for the jugular" in arguments.

He has raised his two children with Nicole after she seemingly walked away from them. Like Peter Andre, he Really Loves His Kids.

OK so he's a Scientologist but to agnostics like me that doesn't seem any weirder than Christianity or Islam or any other religion.

So can we please have some MN love for TC?

no

Sorry - I can think of loads of people more deserving of my sympathy than Tom Cruise!

Erm... doesn't it make you wonder why he's been divorced three times? He was married before he married Nicole Kidman. I can't imagine that he's easy to live with. I think Nicole Kidman was just being polite, she was very graceful when they split.

If it Scientology doesn't seem any weirder to you than Christianity or Islam, that's because you don't know about it, I'm afraid. It's a horrible, horrible cult which even most people have no idea about. I can't say too much (it's that nasty) but I once worked with scientology children. Unbelievably awful stuff went on.

I feel sorry for Nicole and Katie because I know how utterly controlled they must have been, and must still be even after having left TC.

No.

Anti-depressants. Scientology.

Nuff said.

YABU 1) to be sucked into the whole shaleb shite and 2) because you don't know any of the facts - so how can you decide to feel sorry for him?

Nicole didn't walk away from her children, she was edited out of their lives because she didn't support scientology enough.

"Nicole Kidman seemed very happy when she was married to him"

she seemed even happier coming out of her attorney's office when the divorce was finalised

I think he is a bit of a culty nutter and I think that if his soon to be ex wife feels the need to keep their daughter away from him there may well be a good reason for that.
However YANBU to feel a bit sorry for him because it must be awful for a loving father to be separated from his child.

No sympathy for him at all.

I don't think Nicole walked away from those children either. I think the way that Katie is behaving towards Suri now is evidence of how he treats the mothers of his children.

who actually knows what scientology is really about unless you are a member that is very very weird to me

no love from me

i read that Nicole didnt walk away from her children she was pushed away by tom and the cult,

Yes, absolutely being unreasonable.

Scientology my arse.

He's in a cult, and controls what his wives wear, say, and do.
Whats to feel sorry for?

No.

I grew up in a town that had a strong scientology influence and went to school with many scientologist children and saw how they were treated and how they were expected to live.

Its a horrible religious cult and I have no time therefore for Tom cruise.

I just hope Katie is able to protect her child from him and them

The cult 'actively discourages' members from contact with non members including their families. This suggests that the children were discouraged from contact with their mother. This would appear to be the reasoning behind Katie Holmes decision to go for sole custody.

He also has a reputation as a control freak and looking at pictures of Ms Holmes over the last few years she does remind me of my friend who suffered EA during her marriage. I should add that I have no idea what kind of marriage it was but for her to plan a secret escape and 'blindside' her husband with divorce papers says something to me.

No sympathy here and I don't like his films either.

I don't think the fact he has been divorced three times makes him a wrong un. There's all the other stuff tho.
I have a policy of not feeling sorry for Multi millionaires with super white teeth and their own hair.

Oh come on, Nicole is a very wealthy woman - she could have fought for her children. Most of us here are mothers and we wouldn't leave our children at the mercy of a cult, we'd fight tooth and nail for them.

And the photo of Nicole leaving her attorney's office - my guess is it was staged for the pap who just happened to be there at the same time

Indeed I don't know the facts but let's be honest, none of us do so why give TC such a roasting?

sheepsgomeeping, can you elaborate? Genuinely interested. I went to school with quite a few plymouth bretheren and they were very cut off from the rest of society. I've always been puzzled why actors like Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Katie HOlmes stayed with him -they were all already successful in their own field and didn't need any help from Tom. HE's not that much of a catch is he?

She has had to plan the whole thing otherwise she wouldn't stand a chance of winning. She will have seen how Nicole was isolated from the older children and she won't want it happening to her and her daughter.

I don't feel sorry for Nicole she admitted the children wanted to stay with him after the divorce, and she let them. Even though she knew the sort of unfluences that cult would have in their lives.

Clicks fingers in front of Rollingfrogs eyes.

Have they got to you too Frog?

I like TC as an actor, as a husband I think his con column is taller than his in-built heels.