Brooke Shields is not taking this public comments and criticisms by Tom Cruise lying down. Following his rather inappropriate public comments (In my opinion!) about Brooke Shields's use of the antidepressant Paxil to treat the postpartum depression she suffered following the birth of her baby, she responds. Here is her op-ed piece published in New York Times in its entirety.
Normally I wouldn't care much about battles in Hollywood, but this topic and article was important.
War of Words
By BROOKE SHIELDS
London
I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression.
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