Eileen Berlin talks about the actor’s “terrible temper” in a candid interview about her time working with the star.
Eileen Berlin is a retired show business executive who worked with Cruise and even gave him a place to stay when he was starting out in his acting career.
Now 82, Berlin opened up about Cruise’s ambition, obsession with his looks and his explosive short temper.
“Tommy had a terrible temper,” Berlin told the Daily Mail. “He harbored a lot of anger at his natural father. He was moody and would get angry in a snap of your fingers.”
“It was like something was smoldering and it would boil up and explode. I put it down to his insecurity.”
Berlin said Cruise once threw an album of magazine clippings at her when she presented it to him.
“I presented him with an album with all his publicity articles from teen magazines for his 19th birthday. He screamed, ‘I don’t want to be in the teen mags.'”
She added: “He had told me he considered himself an adult, not a teen idol. He threw the album hard at me and it hit me on the cheek.”
