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Apr 3, 2006 · Cruise says his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, "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...
Apr 6, 2006 · Tom Cruise says his father was abusive and that school, where he faced younger bullies, was difficult, in the new issue of Parade magazine.“He was a bully and a coward,” the 43-year-old actor...
May 11, 2023 · However, Gentleman's Journal writes that Cruise also decided against using the last name Mapother because he wanted to symbolically cut ties with his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III. Per CBS News , Cruise, who is notoriously private, revealed in a 2006 interview with Parade magazine that his father was abusive to him while he was growing up.
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May 26, 2022 · The abuse that Thomas Cruise Mapother III inflicted on his family came to a head in 1974. This, writes Andrew Morton in "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography," is when Mapother's verbal attacks, secret drinking, and instability became too much for his wife Mary Lee. In a momentous decision for a devout Catholic woman of her generation, she ...
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Dec 10, 2023 · While it does not seem to have been confirmed by the actor, Cruise may have also amended his surname because he is the namesake of his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III. Cruise stated he...
Nov 30, 2023 · Cruise is the third of mother Mary Lee Pfeiffer's four children. Growing up, Cruise along with his sisters Lee Ann Mapother DeVette, 64, Marian Mapother, 62, and Cass Mapother, 59, were tragically subjected to their father's abusive behavior. As a child Cruise did not have a stable upbringing.
Described by Cruise as “a bully and a coward”, and also an alleged alcoholic, Thomas Mapother III was, according to Cruise, manipulative and physically abusive. The actor said of his father in 2006: “He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you.
