Exclusive: Dr. Drew Gives Defamer The Lowdown On The Tom Cruise/Joseph Goebbels Controversy
Posted by Seth at 6:50 AM on June 17, 2008
If you happened to miss the two dozen or so reminders that your humble, athletically-ungifted Defamer editor would be a featured guest on Dr. Drew Pinsky's radio show this past Friday, we've collected some of the highlights for your listening pleasure. (Before you judge our performance too harshly, you must consider for a moment how nervous we were to be in the presence of the man who taught us everything we know about the relative riskiness of the fringe sexual practices that defined much of our experimental late-20s.) Drew surprised us right off the bat by opening up the floor to our own questions. We took the bait and started grilling him about his recent feud with Tom Cruise and the first word from the set of Celebrity Rehab 2.
We started with the recent Tom Cruise controversy. Pinsky told us he has yet to receive any Scary Hollywood Lawyer letters for his comments regarding Cruise being "drawn into a cultish kind of enviroment" due to "neglect in childhood." He did express regret for the choice of terms he used, and apologized if what he said had offended Cruise—but the Jewish-American doctor also expressed outrage at Cruise's lawyer's Bert Field's Nazi comments, questioning if the comparison was racially motivated.
Following that, there's some nice talk previewing what's to come on the second season of Celebrity Rehab, including the return of Jeff Conaway, who, according to the doctor, is "even sicker" than last season. And if you recall what that was like—yikes.
Thanks again to Dr. Drew for being such a great sport. We look forward to sitting down with him again.

If you happened to miss the two dozen or so reminders that your humble, athletically-ungifted Defamer editor would be a featured guest on Dr. Drew Pinsky's radio show this past Friday, we've collected some of the highlights for your listening pleasure. (Before you judge our performance too harshly, you must consider for a moment how nervous we were to be in the presence of the man who taught us everything we know about the relative riskiness of the fringe sexual practices that defined much of our experimental late-20s.) Drew surprised us right off the bat by opening up the floor to our own questions. We took the bait and started grilling him about his
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NoWireHangers
Posted 7:36 AM 17/6/08
Does this mean you're going to take a page from Molly's book and start doing video blogs for us? We've earned it, Seth.
NoWireHangers
Rodeo Queen
Posted 7:32 AM 17/6/08
Guess the Scientology auditing that John Travolta was allegedly shelling out for didn't help ol' Jeff, did it?
Rodeo Queen
CourageousCoward
Posted 7:15 AM 17/6/08
Thanks, Seth. Moment of silence for Grazerhead?
CourageousCoward
el smrtmnky
Posted 8:15 AM 17/6/08
@Seth: i thought it was pronounced 'aboot'?
el smrtmnky
Seth
Posted 7:49 AM 17/6/08
@NoWireHangers: No way, Jose!
Seth
heidiho
Posted 7:47 AM 17/6/08
Awww, I am so proud of you, my homojewnadian boyfriend!
heidiho
OldTowneTavern
Posted 9:51 AM 17/6/08
How did Jeff Conaway ever leave? Who helped him find the door?
OldTowneTavern
Desk_hack
Posted 9:43 AM 17/6/08
@NoWireHangers: Aww, that would be lovely.
Yay, Seth!
Desk_hack
Xylo
Posted 1:59 PM 17/6/08
Questioning if Fields' Nazi comparison was racially motivated? It's kinda touching that Dr. Drew doesn't know about the First Principle of $cientology: Psychiatrists = Nazis. I'd bet money Fields knows it's ridiculous, but as a lead $cientologist, it would be verboten for Tom Cruise to reply to Dr. Drew without making that comparison; even HE would have to pay thousands of dollars in "auditing" fees if he missed that opportunity.
Xylo
Cultmember
Posted 3:07 PM 17/6/08
The problem dates back to Hubbard's crude misunderstanding of words. Shrinks back in the day used to be called Alienists, and Hubbard probably took that to mean they actually WERE aliens. The idea of alien shrinks conspiring against us is riddled throughout their cosmology, even making into the novel Battlefield Earth.
Cultmember
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:42 AM 18/6/08
@Rodeo Queen: Exactly my thoughts! Where's Tom Cruise to personally - PERSONALLY - get Jeff off drugs?
Sweet Panda Love
Whiteboyfunfark
Posted 9:06 AM 18/6/08
@OldTowneTavern: Would that be enabler-to-the-stars Vikki Lizzi?
Who else is cast, er, checked in? They'd score (sorry) a Nielsen bonanza (as well as a task worthy of L. Ron himself)if they could get Amy Crack--oops--Winehouse to check in...
Whiteboyfunfark