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Award-winning actor Tom Cruise is a testament to prime Hollywood success. With several blockbuster hits under his belt, especially for theMission Impossiblefranchise since 1996, Cruise has obtained optimum fame and recognition for his commitment and risk-taking persona. 2023’sMission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part Oneearned a whopping $567 million globally, despite being the seventh sequel, per Box Office Mojo.
Moreover, the eighth sequelDead Reckoning Part Twois expected to hit theaters in 2025. While the actor’s professional success is well-known, his struggles in his early life aren’t as much. Cruise was bullied by his father at home, and by his classmates at school. Experiencing a lot of tumult at home, his mother took him and his siblings away from their father. However, the star remembers it as his most difficult years.
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Tom Cruise didn’t have an ideal childhood
Talking to Parade Magazine in a 2006 interview, the 61-year-old star unraveled his tough experiences as a child. He frankly spoke of his father being a coward while hinting that he might have been mentally ill. While at school, Cruise’s occasional encounters with hefty bullies almost made him vomit. Speaking of his father,Tom Cruiserecalled,
“He was a bully and a coward… the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life – how he’d lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!”
The Top Gun actor specializes in the action genre and is famous for his brave stunts on-screen. The only times Cruise does not perform a stunt is when the crew restricts him. Seemingly, his sense of courage transpires from his childhood experiences. The American star was also bullied at school. Cruise expressed,
“So many times the big bully comes up, pushes me. Your heart’s pounding, you sweat, and you feel like you’re going to vomit … I don’t like bullies.”
With little trust in his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, the actor was assured that there was something wrong with him. Cruise’s parents divorced in 1974, but they had separated when he was 12, after his mother Mary Lee took him and his sister Lee Anne away from their father.
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Tom Cruise keeps his family close
Cruise chose to look on the brighter side of his childhood dilemma which taught him to value his immediate family the most. Cruise met his father after a decade when the latter was dying of cancer, he says. More so, his father’s condition to meet Cruise was that he wouldn’t ask him about the past, per Parade. Cruise recalled,
“When I saw him in pain, I thought, ‘Wow, what a lonely life. He was in his late 40s. It was sad.”
While Cruise’s personal life has also suffered three failed marriages, he remains committed to his fatherly duties. He has two kids with actress and his former wife, Nicole Kidman, and wouldn’t compromise his turn with them at any cost. The interview was taken at a time when he was engaged to Katie Holmes and was expecting a child. Later on, he got divorced in 2012 once again. Regardless, he strives to set a good example as a parental figure for his kids, something he didn’t get as a child.
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Tiyasa Biswas is a Content Writer at FandomWire. With more than a year of expertise in content spanning over multiple fields: entertainment, sports and features, Tiyasa seeks to bring her flair to the world of fandom. Her journalistic works have garnered significant viewership, with her articles gauging a worldwide audience.
