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“I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn’t want to just write the guy off. He was lost. I can’t speak specifically in terms of why and how he got to where he was \u2014 that was his journey. All I can tell you is, he was overwhelmed by life… My mother basically did all the work, and then they got separated and I didn’t see him for a long time. He didn’t try to help the family financially or spiritually, and I lived with the effects of the chaos.”<\/em><\/p>\n Tom Cruise\u2019s closeness to his mother Mary and his sisters is well-documented, but in a new interview with the June\/July of Esquire Magazine<\/a><\/em>, he opened up about his late father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Tom On His Dad<\/strong>: <\/em>\u201cHe was an electrical engineer moving between jobs, and we moved a lot. My mother basically did all the work, and then they got separated and I didn\u2019t see him for a long time. He didn\u2019t try to help the family financially or spiritually, and I lived with the effects of the chaos….. I found out he was dying, and I went to see him in the hospital,\u201d<\/em> Tom revealed to the mag. \u201cHe knew\u2026 that he\u2019d blown it. There was deep regret. I think he was torturing himself. We tend to do that. All I could do was tell him, \u2018Look, it\u2019s okay.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t going to live in blame and regret.”<\/em><\/p>\n Tom Explains The Infamous Oprah Couch-Jumping Incident<\/strong>: \u201cPerception and reality are two different thing,\u201d <\/em>Tom said of the moment that he expressed his excitement at having fallen in love with his now wife, Katie Holmes. \u201cYeah, the point can be made that I wanted the audience to be happy just like I wanted to make my sisters and my mother happy when I did those skits as a kid. But I\u2019ll take responsibility for my actions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/strong>On Being A Father:<\/strong> “I’ll never forget the moment I became a dad. But it’s hard to describe \u2014 that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy. The clarity: Nothing is more important than this. I remember that first night, just staring at Bella. I was checking her every second, just looking at her, feeling that immediate bond. I was probably looking at her so much that I was keeping her up. I made a promise to her: All I can do is the best I can. But I’m not going to say I’m gonna do something and then not do it.”<\/em><\/p>\n On Getting His Big Break<\/strong>: “The audition [for Taps] was in New York. I said one line. That was it. I had long hair at the time, so they said, ‘Hold up your hair.’ Then ‘Thank you.’ I don’t know why, but… I thought I’d get it. It wasn’t arrogance. I had a quarter in my pocket \u2014 and that was it. I’m telling you: I didn’t have bus fare to get back to where my mom was living in Jersey. I remember… standing outside the Holland Tunnel, and hitchhiking. I walked up the driveway and saw my mother. It was a distance, but I remember her face. She looked at me and I looked at her, and I thought, I got it.”<\/em><\/p>\n On Wife Katie Holmes<\/strong>: “…You know, I’m married to such a special woman. Every night before we go to sleep, Kate and I look at each other and it’s like, How’d we do today?”<\/em><\/p>\n “I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn’t want to just write the guy off. He was lost. I can’t speak specifically in terms of why and how he got to where he was \u2014 that was his journey. All I can tell you is, he was overwhelmed by life… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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