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Tom Cruise: "My violent father"

• Since he was a child, Tom Cruise wanted to be a catholic priest.

• The superstar of Hollywood reveals this particular in an interview where he speaks about his difficult childhood: his father beat him, with consequences that have marked his youth.

• “He’s arrogant and coward,” he says to the magazine Parade.

• “He’s that kind of person that if something goes bad, he’d beat someone,” he explains.

• “It’s been a big lesson in my life.” Cruise grow up in the worst poor conditions, in a catholic family dominated by the invasive figure of his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrician who has never maintained a regular job for long time, obliging the family to move from one place to another.

• On 1974, when the actor was 11, his mother was sufficiently brave to leave her husband.

• “There’s something deeply wrong on that man,” remembers Cruise, “We’ve never trusted him.

• A continuous anxiety.” The actor saw his father only 10 years ago, when he went to see him to the hospital, while he got cancer.

• “He accepted to see me for one condition: I wouldn’t ask him anything about his past behaviour,” remembers the actor in the interview, “When I saw him at the hospital, twisted for the pain, I thought that he must have been lonely in his life, a sad life.”