I don’t like updating you guys on celebrity gossip. I like to think our audience is smarter than the droves of “baby bump watchers” out there, who would slaughter their own spouse to hear the latest tidbit on a celebrity marriage.

But this one was just a little too good to pass up. Cult leader Tom Cruise was called out by celebrity shrink Dr. Drew last week for his unrelenting zeal for Scientology.

Drew had this to say:

“Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood — maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”

Hey Dr. Drew — it’s not that hard. Scientology is a religion for profit. You pay for your membership. So becoming a leader in it is tantamount to becoming an executive at a major corporation. Get it? Still, the good Doc has a point. Cruise always struck me as quite the lonely, emotionally confused guy. It makes sense, then, that he would be attracted to a “religion” whose main selling point is the bashing of psychiatry.

Speaking of which, Cruise’s lawyer Bert Feilds was quick to tow the traditional “Psychiatry is Nazism” line from Scientology:

“This unqualified television performer, who is obviously just looking for notoriety, is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them,” the lawyer said. “He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”

Want more on Scientology’s view of Psychiatry? Check out this now-infamous video of Tom Cruise on the Today show:

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