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    May 23, 2005: Tom Cruise jumps on Oprah's couch, declares his love for Katie Holmes
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    May 23, 2005: Tom Cruise jumps on Oprah’s couch, declares his love for Katie Holmes


    May 23, 2005: Tom Cruise jumps on Oprah’s couch, declares his love for Katie Holmes



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    2. DeadButPretty on

      I remember being home sick from work and waking up from a flu nap and having no idea of I was dreaming or this man was doing …this

    5. Financial-Painter689 on

      This is probably the first viral moment I remember. Truly iconic and insane.

      It spread like wildfire within hours of airing

    6. pu55yobsessed on

      I’ve only just realised that the last scene in Scary Movie 4 was in reference to this lmao

    7. Emergency-Owl-9401 on

      Wow, I have zero memory of Tom going backstage and dragging Katie Holmes’ ass to the stage.

    10. Riqitch on

      The War of the Worlds press tour changed Cruise’s career forever. This, the Pete Overton interview, and the Matt Lauer interview.

      This was not a good time for him

    13. DeadSharkEyes on

      How he grabs her and drags her from backstage 😳 ugh

      I remember thinking how weird and random the pairing was at the time

    15. Last-Bread-6173 on

      I only saw the jump back then so I didn’t realize how unhinged he was throughout the rest of the interview until now.. 

    17. Evieveevee on

      The way he grasps and pushes her out. Ugh. So controlling. Foreshadowing everything that came after.

    19. Soccergirl1979 on

      Listen ladies – if a twice married father of two ever tells you he has never felt this way before (Tom’s words, not mine), he is lying. It was all so disingenuous, which was so clear to me at the time. 

    21. SerBrienneOfSnark on

      This was when society collectively recognized Tom Cruise was a fucking weirdo and nothing was ever the same lol

    24. Hurley002 on

      For the life of me, I will never understand what Katie was thinking. If there had not already been sufficient red flags, this should have been the dealbreaker.

    27. -happyraindays on

      There is so much creepy with this I cannot count.
      – the over 16 year age gap
      – the random jump
      – pressing his hands and weight against Oprah, twice
      – describing those actions as a “hug”
      – his lack of ability to utter anything coherent
      – his hands holding Katie’s arms tightly down and shoving her forward to the stage
      …

      This is cocaine use, right?

    29. GroovyYaYa on

      Fun fact – you can see that couch at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC!

    31. AugustIzFalling on

      I don’t care if people think it was innocuous, he was simultaneously screaming about hating psychiatry, mothers with post partum depression, and was embarrassed by a super creepy Scientology awards ceremony. “Do you even know an SP?”

      He has personal servants that are in the SeaOrg that make $47/week. He’s still a Scientologist.

      I’m from Southern California, their practices are beyond predatory. They don’t just grab people off the street, they also trick people with fake auditions, gigs, jobs, improv classes, acting classes, etc. (“Golden Era Productions”) They own local politicians and the LAPD, who they throw lavish balls for.

      Cruise doesn’t even talk to his own daughter because Katie Holmes is allegedly a “suppressive person.”

      Bad press for Scientology is always a good thing.