Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - I've met the REAL Tom Cruise !!

00:00:00.000 So if anyone's buying this idea that Tom Cruise is sitting down for this in-depth interview

00:00:05.500 because he felt like it was time for the world to know him better as a person,

00:00:09.580 well, that is a scam.

00:00:15.960 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.

00:00:17.660 I'm Ashley Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:20.320 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:24.980 Talking about delusion, let's talk about Tom Cruise.

00:00:29.620 We all know there is something very disturbing about him

00:00:33.020 that we all agreed not to talk about anymore.

00:00:36.900 But now he's on the cover of GQ trying to sell us this sexy image

00:00:41.640 and this intimate look into who Tom Cruise really is.

00:00:46.980 Will he let his mask slip again?

00:00:50.180 Let's look into it.

00:00:51.760 So Tom Cruise has a new big movie coming out called Digger

00:00:57.640 And he wants an Oscar this time.

00:01:01.340 And that is why he has to sit down and do interviews like this.

00:01:07.640 So this interview has been sold to us like a revealing in-depth interview into who Tom Cruise really is.

00:01:16.580 It was posted yesterday on YouTube and GQ has this cover story.

00:01:21.460 and it's printed over a ton of pages and sold to the world as this sit-down with Tom Cruise

00:01:28.560 that we haven't seen in over 20 years.

00:01:32.120 So if anyone's buying this idea that Tom Cruise is sitting down for this in-depth interview

00:01:37.560 because he felt like it was time for the world to know him better as a person,

00:01:41.640 well, that is a scam.

00:01:43.260 All we learned from this new interview is that Tom Cruise loves movies,

00:01:49.060 He loves making movies. When he's not making a movie, he's thinking about the next movie he's

00:01:54.580 making. And he dreams big. He takes risks. And when he was a kid, all he wanted to do was make

00:02:01.240 movies. It's all the same things that Tom Cruise's publicity machine has been selling us for years.

00:02:06.960 And in this interview that I'll get to very soon, the interviewer is asking Tom Cruise why he now

00:02:13.420 finally decides to sit down for an interview like this after so many years and of course we all know

00:02:20.700 the answer to that and of course Tom Cruise doesn't give a real answer to that and I'm sure that you've

00:02:26.900 all seen interviews with Tom Cruise for the last 20 years but they've all been about his love for

00:02:32.980 movie making and it's been about 20 years since Tom Cruise stopped answering real questions and

00:02:39.040 And that was in 2008, when there was a leak from Scientology Church showing Tom Cruise's real colors.

00:02:48.240 So, like, have you met an SP? 0.63

00:02:55.240 Yeah, it was a really scary video.

00:02:57.640 And of course, the Scientology Church tried to get it removed from YouTube.

00:03:01.940 And at the time, people were really reacting strongly to that video, the public in general and Hollywood as well.

00:03:09.040 But for some reason, Hollywood was very forgiving to Tom Cruise.

00:03:14.940 He was a big movie star that made them tons of money.

00:03:18.120 So why would they blacklist him?

00:03:20.300 So everyone just accepted that you don't ask Tom Cruise any personal questions.

00:03:25.040 And we all just bought into this image of Tom Cruise being the biggest movie star of today.

00:03:32.260 He's an amazing artist.

00:03:33.860 He's done some really interesting, fascinating characters.

00:03:37.020 and for the younger generation he's mostly known as one of the biggest action stars who's doing

00:03:43.040 all his own stunts and that's what he's been talking about for the last 20 years. I was a

00:03:49.060 part of that machine myself. I interviewed Tom Cruise. I met him. I bought into that whole idea

00:03:54.780 and I obeyed all the rules. I was mesmerized by his charisma and intensity as well. I admit it.

00:04:02.000 I will show you my interview with him later on here and what I did or what I tried to do to make him open up to me.

00:04:08.340 And interestingly enough, when I did this interview with Tom Cruise, I had already gone undercover at the Scientology Church in New York.

00:04:16.780 And I did a really deep dive into this cult and I interviewed a lot of members who had dropped out.

00:04:23.960 And it was a huge story in a newspaper in Norway.

00:04:27.020 And of course, they got threats from the Scientology Church and all of that.

00:04:30.300 But this video is not about how crazy Scientology is.

00:04:33.500 This video is about how badly Tom Cruise wants this Oscar,

00:04:38.220 and how the media is helping him by trying to convince us that we now know who Tom Cruise really is.

00:04:45.180 Now we saw this idea that he's just a misunderstood man that loves movies,

00:04:49.900 and he's hanging out with Taylor Swift too.

00:04:52.220 I saw this a couple of days ago, they were at a game together

00:04:55.260 and they had like a deep conversation, who knows who invited who here.

00:04:58.780 I'm guessing Taylor Swift invited Tom Cruise or he reached out to her people to get a spot

00:05:05.080 or to get a seat next to her because I don't know maybe it's good for his image to hang out with

00:05:09.280 Taylor Swift but anyways these photos and this video was everywhere but anyways let's get back

00:05:14.320 into this PR campaign Tom Cruise is selling us right now as you know his Mission Impossible

00:05:19.800 movies were franchise movies they didn't need that much marketing they would just put Tom Cruise

00:05:25.120 out there talking about all the stunts and how he risked his life every day on a movie set and that

00:05:30.420 his life is making movies and he dreamt about making movies since he was a kid and everyone's

00:05:35.320 like okay we'll go and watch my mission impossible tom cruise is in it he is a movie star and we love

00:05:41.140 it now things are a bit different because he needs to sell us something else than stunts

00:05:47.300 he is not an action star in this film and he's working with a well-known director who's won

00:05:53.520 Oscars before for Leonardo DiCaprio's movie The Revenant. And for Birdman, his name is Alejandro

00:06:01.460 González Iñárritu. I love a lot of his movies, by the way. And when Tom Cruise has signed up for

00:06:06.620 a movie like this, who is a part of the Oscar conversation, he has to commit to doing things

00:06:13.980 like this. Question to you is, do you fear death? Look, I think you could look at my life and go,

00:06:21.440 i like standing on the edge of a cliff so the journalist here zach baron from gq is trying

00:06:30.080 he is really trying and you can tell from his face when he's sitting there he's like okay

00:06:37.080 i'm not getting anything here he does get some answers now and then but then tom cruise just

00:06:44.580 brings it back to movie making again it does ask him in this interview though why he decided to sit

00:06:52.360 down at this point why he hasn't done these interviews in a long time of course as i said

00:06:58.980 we all know the answer to that and then tom cruise responded like this haven't really sat down in a

00:07:05.000 context like this one no like yeah see yeah no for a long time why not a bit busy one so i have a

00:07:13.100 Question, well, one, what do we owe the honor then for you to slow down and talk to me?

00:07:17.420 I swear I'm not switching for a compliment.

00:07:18.680 No, it's just, no, it's, listen, it's very nice.

00:07:20.760 It's like, this is, here we are, you know, first of all, I have to say the amount of

00:07:24.900 time that COVID took when we're going through it.

00:07:26.720 It was, we were in a dead sprint at a very long pace up again.

00:07:30.620 Yeah, it's nice.

00:07:32.980 And then there was COVID.

00:07:34.160 I mean, COVID was in 2020, 2021.

00:07:37.420 It's like five, six years ago.

00:07:39.860 So that's why Tom Cruise hasn't done any interviews.

00:07:42.360 Anyways, he almost gets something interesting in about 20 minutes into this interview where

00:07:48.420 he's asking, who are you when you're not on a movie set?

00:07:52.800 They're like, when you're not on a movie set, who are you?

00:07:56.480 I'm me.

00:07:57.060 I am me throughout.

00:07:58.520 I'm always me.

00:07:59.180 Yeah.

00:07:59.640 You know, I am always me.

00:08:01.360 Yeah, I'm me.

00:08:02.520 I'm always me.

00:08:04.000 What an interesting answer.

00:08:05.720 I think people wonder, like, what you're doing on a random Tuesday when you're not on a movie

00:08:08.660 set.

00:08:09.280 You know what?

00:08:10.040 I'm preparing for the next.

00:08:11.280 But then Tom starts talking about where he feels at home,

00:08:15.880 which I think is the most revealing part of this interview.

00:08:20.340 People go, where do you live?

00:08:21.200 It's like, I live around the world.

00:08:23.420 And that's a source of happiness for you,

00:08:25.140 not like a source of like, I have no home.

00:08:27.160 I have a home everywhere I go.

00:08:29.240 And I feel very much at home in places.

00:08:34.780 And it's what I like.

00:08:37.580 I feel very much at home in places.

00:08:41.280 it's what I like yeah he doesn't have a real home and he is who he is he is just me I mean his

00:08:52.560 entire identity is built upon working he has no life outside of work unless he's promoting a movie

00:09:01.740 like the last mission impossible movie then he was all of a sudden dating Ana de Armas I think

00:09:08.400 they dated for about five minutes and there were some paparazzi photos of him and her leaving a

00:09:13.620 private jet. All of a sudden there was a paparazzi there who got all these amazing photos of the two

00:09:18.320 of them and then they broke up and no one asked any questions. It was about timing, I think it was.

00:09:24.680 It was like they separated as friends and no more drama there. And then his movie came out and

00:09:30.840 everyone was like, do we buy that relationship? Well, I didn't. Anyways, Tom Cruise stopped talking

00:09:35.980 about Scientology about 25 years ago. That's when that video leaked from Scientology Church and

00:09:42.500 that's when they started freaking out because everyone started realizing what crazy cult this

00:09:48.560 is and who Tom Cruise really is. You know we have that responsibility to say hey this is the way it

00:09:54.820 should be done. I walked through the Church of Scientology in New York pretending I was interested

00:10:00.720 in what they had to offer me and I was looking into the rooms where people were sitting with

00:10:04.840 these lie detector tests or whatever they call them and then I was shown a video that was supposed

00:10:11.420 to brainwash me into believing that I needed to be a part of this cult and I needed to spend and

00:10:17.000 invest all my money basically into taking courses there I mean it's all been revealed now what

00:10:22.120 they're actually up to I don't need to get more into that but just a side note there anyways the

00:10:26.600 Scientology Church tried everything in their power to get rid of this video from YouTube

00:10:30.520 and they were also going after Gawker the website pressuring them to take it down which they didn't

00:10:38.320 and then as recently as actually three years ago 60 Minutes in Australia interviewed some

00:10:45.000 ex-Scientologists who spoke about Tom Cruise's role in the church and it's not like he's just

00:10:51.780 a member he is side by side by the big leader. Tom Cruise is a Scientologist before anything

00:11:00.380 else and he will tell you himself that he is best buds with David Miscavige they're two peas in a pod

00:11:07.180 and David Miscavige will tell you the exact same thing he will tell you Tom Cruise is the most

00:11:13.400 dedicated Scientologist in the world. And three years before this big leak there was an incident

00:11:21.440 as you might remember on Oprah Winfrey's couch when Tom Cruise was jumping up and down acting

00:11:28.340 like a lunatic because he was in love with Katie Holmes. And we all know what happened to their

00:11:34.680 marriage, how Katie Holmes was basically extracted out of that marriage. She had planned an escape 0.87

00:11:42.720 plan. She had a burner phone. It was all really well planned. She had a lot of lawyers already

00:11:49.620 on her side before she basically fled while Tom Cruise was abroad filming a movie. At the time

00:11:59.340 everyone was like, okay, this is a bit shady, this is crazy, this is not good. But Tom Cruise really

00:12:05.780 didn't go anywhere. We were all like, oh, he is still a movie star, we are going to watch his

00:12:11.560 movies. Anyways, back to this revealing interview about who Tom Cruise really is. As I said, he's

00:12:17.740 not saying anything the interviewer is even asking him what does it feel like to be turning 64 you

00:12:24.080 just turn 64 and he's just like oh it means i'm 64 and of course other media outlets have picked

00:12:31.120 this up and they tried to find something they could use here and this one like for example in

00:12:36.640 people magazine saying that tom cruise is intense i mean who didn't know that tom cruise is intense

00:12:43.580 That's at least something that's very public knowledge about Tom Cruise.

00:12:48.560 What I find really disturbing about this is that the media is buying into this being

00:12:53.240 and revealing big interview from Tom Cruise,

00:12:56.660 while everyone can see that he's saying absolutely nothing.

00:13:00.300 His obsessions with movies is characterized as like some kind of sacrifice

00:13:05.580 that he has made to entertain people.

00:13:08.560 and his isolation from the world has been translated into discipline and that we don't

00:13:14.860 know anything about his personal life just makes him a bit mysterious. I think the most interesting

00:13:20.300 story here is how the media has agreed to this deal with Tom Cruise. How Hollywood of course

00:13:27.180 because they know he's a money machine they want to protect him for any cost and the media has

00:13:33.220 agreed to help them to do that so the big question is can we and should we separate the man from the

00:13:40.660 art should we be able to celebrate Tom Cruise as one of our biggest movie stars today and just

00:13:48.440 forget about everything that he really stands for when he's not on a red carpet it's interesting

00:13:54.240 when he's asked about being the last movie star he also mentions well I'm not the only one Brad

00:14:00.940 Pitt is also a movie star. Pitt is the only name he mentions actually and I just found that

00:14:06.720 comparison fascinating because as you might know all of Brad Pitt's children have now chosen to

00:14:13.880 remove Pitt from their last name and he allegedly has no contact with his own children and Tom Cruise

00:14:21.040 as you know has not seen his daughter Suri that he got with Katie Holmes since she was I think

00:14:27.620 about six or seven years old and they have absolutely no contact so it's interesting that

00:14:33.160 these two are the biggest movie stars of today and they have no contact with their children

00:14:37.540 Tom Cruise do have contact with the children that he adopted with Nicole Kidman because they're both

00:14:43.840 in Scientology so Nicole Kidman I think has no contact with them because she chose when she

00:14:50.820 divorced him to separate from these crazy cults and of course she had to pay the price for that

00:14:58.080 wouldn't it be amazing if we ever get to hear their stories nicole kidman's story and and katie

00:15:04.360 home's story about what really went on behind closed doors anyway scientology is a scary

00:15:11.000 dangerous powerful cult that goes after people who criticizes them so of course they're not going

00:15:16.700 to do that as long as they have the power that they have. Anyways, in this 60-minute interview

00:15:22.980 that Tom Cruise did in 2005, this interview is so badass by the way, I'm so impressed by this

00:15:31.520 journalist Peter Overton who met with Tom Cruise and really pushed him on these questions and he

00:15:39.080 starts off this video saying that the cruise control will be tested in this interview and he

00:15:44.600 pushed Tom so hard that he snapped at him. But before he did that, Peter said that before he

00:15:50.840 was allowed to do this interview with Tom, he had to take a course in Scientology, a four hour

00:15:58.400 course, four and a half hour course. Why then was it a condition of me talking to you today that I

00:16:03.140 had to spend quite an intense four and a half hours in the Church of Scientology here in Los

00:16:06.960 Angeles? Oh, you didn't have to. You could have said no. But I felt I had to. Okay, well that's

00:16:11.620 how you felt people are interested in scientology and i i find that people wanted to know yeah i

00:16:17.700 remember magnus my partner told me that they had to do the same thing him and another group of

00:16:23.020 journalists when they were moving when they were interviewing him for war of the world as well the

00:16:27.880 same movie as peter oberton is interviewing him about here they had to go into this tent and learn

00:16:34.700 about Scientology before they were allowed to interview Tom Cruise. So this was before that big

00:16:41.760 leak. Keep that in mind when Peter Overton asked Tom Cruise about Scientology. Do you feel

00:16:49.120 discriminated against when people say this is what Scientology is, that you're a bunch of a lunatic 0.97

00:16:54.120 fringe or whatever? Does that? Peter? Tom? No one's ever said that to me. But no, I mean that 0.91

00:16:59.360 perception out there yeah but that's not the perception out there I that is absolutely maybe

00:17:05.220 from your perspective this isn't my personal opinion I'm just saying how do you feel about

00:17:08.980 that when people well how would you feel oh if it was my faith I'd feel well not really not even

00:17:13.260 your own faith I I find that appalling when when people who don't know what they're talking about

00:17:17.320 yeah pretty scary stuff right there he also kept pushing about his love life and at this point him

00:17:25.580 and Nicole Kidman had already separated,

00:17:28.620 they were already divorced,

00:17:30.160 but Peter kept pushing it

00:17:32.240 and that's when Tom Cruise really snapped.

00:17:35.220 Your family life was difficult.

00:17:37.640 You were estranged from your father

00:17:38.700 and your mum and dad were divorced.

00:17:40.640 Has that had an impact on you as a dad,

00:17:42.380 how you bring up your children?

00:17:43.840 Your children?

00:17:45.300 I'm hoping to.

00:17:45.980 Okay, good.

00:17:46.700 I hope I can.

00:17:47.320 Good.

00:17:48.060 Good.

00:17:49.480 Was Nicole the love of your life?

00:17:51.480 what do you what do you mean peter here's here's the thing peter you're stepping over a line now

00:17:59.640 you're stepping over a line you know you are take responsibility for what you want to know

00:18:03.340 okay just put your manners back in i mean kudos for this reporter for pushing so hard

00:18:10.200 i do also understand tom cruise in that situation that he didn't want to get into all the details

00:18:15.740 with the children and the divorce and everything but for the reporter to go there I mean that is

00:18:22.120 pretty brave anyways as I said I interviewed Tom Cruise in 2016 this was for another Mission

00:18:29.640 Impossible movie and the premiere was in New York and I was given a spot at the red carpet

00:18:34.620 they said you know he's just gonna stop and you have to be interview him with a group of other

00:18:39.800 journalists because he doesn't have that much time and I was like laying awake all night thinking

00:18:44.180 what can i ask tom cruise that is going to give me a meaningful answer because i know he's always

00:18:49.880 on autopilot in these interviews and he gives the same exact answer in every single interview and

00:18:55.460 this was the mission impossible movie that he was hanging on from a plane and everyone was talking

00:19:00.080 about that that was the whole shtick for selling that movie so i was laying awake all night thinking

00:19:05.580 what can i ask tom cruise that is not a dangerous question but that can also catch him a bit off

00:19:10.640 guard so it doesn't just get into that whole blah blah blah I love movie making

00:19:40.640 of course he went back to oh movie making whatever but at least i got some kind of reaction and then

00:19:50.760 i also asked him if he is a good hugger because i thought if i ask him that he definitely has to

00:19:57.980 show a little bit of who he really is so he ended up giving me a great hug and he said even you know

00:20:04.900 bring it in you know give me a real hug

00:20:07.760 and when he left I was like wow I just got a hug from Tom Cruise this is one of the biggest days

00:20:25.500 of my life and at the same time I agreed to be part of that system that facade that we've all

00:20:33.660 been selling on behalf of Tom Cruise for so many years. The media has been helping Tom Cruise

00:20:40.240 maintain the mystery, so the question is why did we all agree to put this man on a pedestal like

00:20:46.180 this? But we're not really admiring Tom Cruise, we're just admiring the entire security system

00:20:51.320 around him. We are admiring this image of a person that is not real. But anyways, let me know what

00:21:00.240 you think? Do you think that we should keep Tom Cruise on this pedestal and not ask any questions

00:21:06.800 and let him be and let him just be this big movie star that we can admire and that we want to watch

00:21:14.260 in the theater? Or are we past that now? Should we start asking more questions and ask for more

00:21:20.780 accountability and not pretend that we're actually buying this? There's going to be a lot more

00:21:27.040 interviews with Tom Cruise you're gonna see him everywhere this award season I bet you because

00:21:32.860 he really wants that Oscar so now we have to see if the Oscar Academy is going to give him that I

00:21:40.620 haven't seen the movie Digger yet but I will probably watch it I'm very curious about it

00:21:45.900 so anyways yeah that's it for me today you guys I hope you enjoyed this video and thank you so much

00:21:52.600 for all your support all your tips this video as you might have noticed is not about Blake

00:21:57.400 Wiley or Ryan Reynolds who I've been following very closely for the last one and a half years

00:22:02.520 but I am moving a little bit away from that and if there's any big news about them of course I

00:22:08.540 will cover it so don't worry about that but I still hope you enjoy my videos although I'm talking

00:22:14.560 about other things too and if you haven't subscribed yet please do and hit the notification

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - September 17, 2026

I've met the REAL Tom Cruise !!

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