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Dr Drew Pinsky a host of VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” said in next month’s Playboy:

“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt.

“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.”

Tom Cruise got his lawyer, Bert Fields, to speak out on his behalf.

“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.

“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.”

Goebbels was minister for public enlightenment and propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one Adolf Hitler’s closest associates and most devout followers.

[via fox news]