Did Tom Cruise try to convert Larry King to Scientology?The “Mission: Impossible” star tried to convince the CNN interviewer of the virtues of the sometimes controversial religion and took King on a personal tour of a Scientology exhibit that attacks psychiatry.
King, who has been candid about his bout with depression, also has been open about his treatment with anti-depressants, but Cruise and his religion are outspoken critics of both psychiatry and prescription drugs.
After a highly publicized incident in which Cruise criticized Brooke Shields' use of drugs to treat her post-partum depression a few years back, Cruise took King on a private tour of the Scientology’s Hollywood museum, “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.”
“I like Tom a lot,” King told the Palm Beach Post in discussing the tour, but adds he disagrees with the actor’s and Scientology’s position on anti-depressants and psychiatry. The church blames the latter on everything from patients’ suicides to the Holocaust.
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