Patricia Cornwell on Tom Cruise: “I Can’t Watch His Movies Anymore”

Patricia Cornwell on Tom Cruise: “I Can’t Watch His Movies Anymore”:

The Guardian reported in 2003 that while Cornwell was growing up, her mother was frequently hospitalized for depression and eventually left her three children in foster care. With that experience, Cornwell felt she could be “a little vehement on the subject.”…

Cornwell said she is worried that children who “hero-worship this actor” will stop taking their antidepressants or other medications because of Cruise’s anti-psychiatric-medication stance. “That little kid,” Cornwell says, “is going to commit suicide.”

“What he’s done is incredibly irresponsible and potentially damaging,” she says. “Something really bad is going to happen and I have to tell you I personally am outraged over that kind of irresponsible and ignorant behavior. I hate to say this, [but] I can’t watch his movies anymore.”

Cornwell’s latest novel, Predator, has sold 298,000 units since its Oct. 25 publication, as reported by Nielsen BookScan, putting it at the No. 10 spot on The Book Standard’s Fiction Bestsellers Chart.

I strongly disliked Patricia Cornwell until this. I thought (and still do think) that her viewpoint characters have a cold, creepy, narcissistic tone to them. But I feel more compassion for her now … and I completely agree with her about Crazy Cruise.

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