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Revisiting Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer’s ‘Today’ Showdown 20 Years Later
Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer’s 2005 clash on the 'Today' show over psychiatry sparked headlines and is still remembered 20 years later
While visiting Today to promote War of the Worlds(with Holmes looking on off-camera), Cruise, then 42, got heated when host Matt Lauer questioned him about his criticism of Brooke Shields, who had previously revealed she relied on the help of antidepressants to treat postpartum depression. Busacca/WireImage for Glamour MagazineUltimately, the Top Gun icon apologized to his former costar (they shared the screen in 1981’s Endless Love) — albeit “not publicly, which would have been the right thing to do,” she remarked in her recent memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old. Tom Cruise at the premiere of ‘Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ in May 2025Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images for Paramount PicturesLauer, who was fired in 2017 after alleged inappropriate sexual conduct, is living a quiet life in the Hamptons.
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