Cruise: Dad Abused Me

There is not much worse than an abusive father. I can’t help wondering if Tom’s dad used to beat him for jumping on the couch. I remember that my own dad used to tear into us about dinner manners and to this day my brother takes his shirt off before dinner and I eat with my elbows on the table….
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Cruise: Dad Abused Me
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Tom Cruise prepares to be a proud papa again, he has implied that there’s one man he definitely will not be taking lessons in daddyhood from.
His own father.
The War of the Worlds star says in the upcoming issue of Parade magazine that his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, who died in the mid-’80s of cancer, was abusive.
“He was a bully and a coward. He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you,” Cruise said. “It was a great lesson in my life–how he’d lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!”