Brooke Shields reveals if Tom Cruise apologized for 'disparaging' her

Brooke Shields has shared insight into her public falling-out with Tom Cruise.

Two decades ago in 2005, Shields released her Down Came the Rain memoir which opened a window into her experience with postpartum depression after welcoming daughter Rowan, now 21.

Following the release, the Mission: Impossible star went on the Today show and “disparaged me,” Shields wrote.

Per Shields, the Top Gun actor said her “use of antidepressants” was “dangerous.”

“I was, according to Tom, spreading misinformation,” the Mother of the Bride actress wrote in her new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old. “An interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries.”

In response, Shields published an op-ed in The New York Times.

“I was sticking up for myself, and for women who were suffering, against irrational and dangerous comments from an unschooled actor who was speaking way out of his depth,” she wrote of the op-ed.

She continued: “Had Tom taken a public swing at me before I became a mother, I probably would have stayed quiet. I would have ignored his ridiculous rant. I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own (deluded) agenda.”

“I would have been satisfied that his behavior would speak for itself.”

“Sitting quietly and letting myself be attacked might have been my approach a decade earlier — I might have even regretted sharing my story or felt insecure that maybe my career was stalling while a powerful male movie star was singling me out, sure that I’d never stand a chance in that fight — but now I was emboldened by life experience,” Shields reflected.

She went on to note that Tom Cruise eventually apologized to her, noting: “It wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it.”

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is available for purchase.