Tom on Jett's Death -- "Horrific"

A visibly shaken Tom Cruise finally opened up about the death of his good friend's son -- describing Jett Travolta's death as "horrific" and addressing Scientology's role in the tragedy.

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Struggling to find the right words, Cruise addressed the emotional topic during a taping for tomorrow's episode of "The View," where he claimed his religion does not prohibit people from seeing a doctor and getting proper medication.



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121. It's apparent that Tom had an earpiece in his ear so David Miscavige, cult leader, could tell him how to respond to each question the women asked. Looks like someone fired up a microwave on the set of The View and caused transmission problems, leaving Tom at a loss for words. He wasn't even listening to the questions the women posed. He was waiting to hear the answers that never came through the earpiece and he didn't know what to say but ugh, agh, ummmm.....he looked very embarrassed.

Posted at 8:54PM on Jan 8th 2009 by technical difficulties

122. Heh, I love how some scientologists try to push this off as being a thing about Christians and how we want everyone to be a Christian. If you notice, there is not a huge backlash anymore against atheists or agnostics, not like there is against scientologists. You know why? Because they aren't harming anyone. So we respect their right to have their own religion or non religion. I respect any religion that isn't harming anyone. The last person I dated was agnostic. Basically I can see that Jett isn't getting any Justice, not much anyway. But at least more people are aware of Scientology now. Maybe one person is aware of how scary the religion or whatever it is , is. And the reason I'm angry is because I do care about Jett (someone claimed the angry people don't care about him) even though I don't know him. I have a soft spot for children with disabilities and animals, always have.

Posted at 9:02PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Face it People

123. I have never seen anyone so inarticulate! It is as if he can not say how he really feels..like every word has to be calculated....and nothing, therefore, is said.

Posted at 8:49AM on Jan 9th 2009 by jennifer

124. Why wasn't he at the memorial today instead of on the View/
Why didn't he support his good friends and pay his respects to Jett?
The guy is all money all the time. He wouldn't be so shaken if he was

Posted at 9:24PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Tina

125. What about the fact that Scientologist have people sit in a Sauna for like 10 hours and don't forget narcanon is a scientologist related thing to go to where you get clean from drugs. So never do Narcanon! They will do the sauna thing! That's how they get rid of the "toxins".

Posted at 9:17PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Scientology was created on a Bet!

126. Narcanon is Scientologist affiliated but they don't reveal that!

Posted at 9:20PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Scientology was created on a Bet!

127. Some of you people make me sick.
Who died and made you God?
How dare you critizise people over their religion. It's their choice !
How many Millions of people died in the name of christionanity.
How many wars are fought over religion?
Catholics don't believe in birth control or eating meat on Fridays.
When I was little, all the sermons were in Latin and I couldn't understand a word they said.
Mormans have to send in, what is it, 10% of their income to the church.
What church do you go to? What god do you pray to?

Posted at 9:22PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Jackie

128. They will kill you if you are a heroin addict in Narcanon by making you come off cold turkey!

Posted at 9:22PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Scientology was created on a Bet!

129. lol Jackie, Scientology takes ALL your money

Posted at 9:24PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Scientology was created on a Bet!

130. Was it my imagination or did Whoopie look REALLY uncomfortable? I also thought TC was grasping for any words he could think of and he seemed to fumble. He was Catholic and so was John Travolta... wonder if they truly believe that the miracle of life comes through SCIENTOLOGY? I will once again hope that Jett rests in peace.. I truly feel that John loved his son, but wasn't quite sure how to deal with the cards he was dealt. Kelly was the one that persuaded John to look into scientology... and Tom seemed to manipulate Katie into it.. S C A R E Y! Parents, do you know where your children REALLY are?

Posted at 9:25PM on Jan 8th 2009 by ilovetheshowmadmen

131. he is not empathic towards his 'friend' it seems like he is at a loss of what he should be saying. you can just read his confused brainwashed loss at what to even try to say. and this getting alot of attention., i never even heard of JETT TRAVOLTA before this, and he is getting more attention then a less unheard actor that could of passed away. why, because he is john TRAVOLTAS son? anyways..

Posted at 9:26PM on Jan 8th 2009 by megan fox is a fox

132. Yeah catholics believe in life, Scientologists believe in death, that's why there is no birth control. I'd rather be catholic anyday!

Posted at 9:26PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Scientology was created on a Bet!

133. rickross.com It tells about cults At the bottom is Scientology. It will tell if you click on it all about it and tell about Narcanon and how they hide it is affliated with Scientology but do this to try to get people fooled into coming there to detox from drugs.

Posted at 9:36PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Scientology was created on a Bet!

134. ok, first off, get off Barbaras back,,she asked the question,(1 of them anyway) that everyone's wondering,,which is her job,,and if she hadn't of went there you would have said she's slipping or doesn't have the backbone to stand toe to toe with cruise,,and as for whoopi, she just looked like she couldn't stand being on the same stage with cruise,,,and as for what REALLY happened tp jett,,well that was far too many auditing sessions,ethic sessions, and detox sessions. jett had reached an age where it was getting harder and harder to lie about hit condition, you see high profile scientologists are given more consideration, and allowed more"lapses" than normal members,and it was becoming apparent to the regular members that john was being allowed to give his son "psycological" drugs for a physical problem,that never existed, which is the real reason the depakote was dis-continued, and as for the death causing seizure,,well you endure hours of having to stare at someone eye to eye for 2-3 hours straight, or endure question after question about the evil in your mind and heart from past lives you have had, or being subjected to hours, and even days of starvation, dehydration, and sleep deprivation. you might get a little stressed right? now imagine being 16, autistic and told your illness is your own fault because of past life deeds and told you are sick only because your mind is to weak to overcome this,,even very small stresses such as being in a strange place can throw these poor autistic children into seizures,,imagine what this did to him. and no this wasn't done puposefully by john,,the poor brainwashed mindless zombie was just following the practices set down to him by the cos elders, who assured him this would drive the evil thetans from his sons mind. the elders on the other hand accomplished their goal, to get rid of the embarrasment that proved their hypocracy of the beliefs the berate into people, and it would prove that even the elders don't believe what they say about psycologist and their meds, and that it's just a scam for a few chosen to reap financial and emotional power over their subjects,,,yes thats why the rushed cremation,(done on david's order)

Posted at 9:39PM on Jan 8th 2009 by regi

135. Back in the fifties when L Ron Hubbard was a horrible Science Fiction writer, he said the best way to not pay taxes was to start a religion. That's exactly what he did. He created a religion and made millions of dollars at the expense of real tax payers, and the idiots who by his lame self help books. This is not a proper religion that worships a God or some other deity. It's all a scam. These celebrities who fall into this trap are, simply put, brain dead. I believe you join a religion to worship your God, not some hack writer who started a religion to make money.

Posted at 9:45PM on Jan 8th 2009 by What??

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