He enjoyed meteoric success in the decades to come, cementing himself as a true A-lister.
“He was a bully and a coward … “I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb.
I would get angry.
My legs would actually hurt when I was studying.
“So many times the big bully comes up, pushes me … “I don’t like bullies …
Instead, it was just more and more layers of anxiety for the young Cruise.
However, Cruise also used some of that cash to afford his greatest childhood love watching movies.
“You didn’t have YouTube, and we didn’t have film school.
That was my film school.”
“When I saw him in pain, I thought, ‘Wow, what a lonely life.’
He was in his late 40s.
It was sad.”
Cruise’s father died in January 1984, when Cruise was just 21 years old.
