We all know that Tom Cruise doesn’t like doctors, modern medicine or people who are anti-Scientology, so after Dr. Drew Pinsky was quoted as saying the actor may have a mental illness, he threw his lawyers on it.

In next month’s Playboy, Dr. Drew says, “A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood - maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”

So far Cruise himself has failed to comment on the matter, but instead had his attorney speak for him.

“This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels [a Nazi propagandist].”

Yeah well, Dr. P is super yummy hot, and I’ll believe whatever he tells me! Although that may stem from some childhood traum…oh nevermind.

“Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” is coming back for a second season on VH1 and is set to premiere in October.

The show will pretty much be the same with a few minor adjustments.

Jeff Conaway will be back seeking treatment after having back surgeries causing him to become reliant on pain meds. Other quasi-celebs looking to clean-up are Sean Stewart, Amber Smith (model/actress), Rodney King, Nikki McKibbon (American Idol), Steven Adler (Guns n Roses) and Tawny Kitaen.

Gary Busey, who claims to have been clean for the past 13 years will also be a part of the show, offering support and sharing his experiences with addiction. Drug counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague will also return to be a part of the show this season.

Patients will undergo an intensive 21-day program. Families of the celebs will be more involved this time around and sometimes will undergo treatment themselves.

Isn’t Dr. Drew the hottness? The older he gets the finer he looks. And did you see him in a short sleeve t-shirt on ‘Celebrity Rehab‘? Wow, he may be 49, but he has quite the body!

Interesting Facts About Dr. Drew:

• Dr. David Drew Pinsky was born September 4, 1958 in Pasadena, California. He is the oldest child with a sister, Dana, now a paralegal, who is six years younger. His mother, Helene, was a singer and actress and his father, Morton, was a doctor.

• Drew used to go on house calls with his father and decided young that he wanted to be a doctor, too.

• Drew attended Polytechnic High School, a private school in Pasadena, before going to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In high school, Drew played football and was class president. At Amherst, Drew majored in Biology. He graduated from high school in 1976 and from Amherst in 1980.

• Upon graduation from Amherst, Drew came back to California and attended the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He graduated from USC in 1984. Drew served his residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He was appointed to chief resident at HMH.

• Pinsky is now in private practice in Pasadena where his patients are 60+ years old. He also does rounds at Las Encinas Hospital.

• He started doing the radio version of Loveline in 1983, when he was in his third year of medical school. KROQ was just a small, local station then. Although referred to by patients as Dr. Pinsky, the name “Dr. Drew” came about as he started his radio career. Not wanting to promote his own name or practice, Pinsky took the over-the-air title of Dr. Drew to separate his professional medical and radio careers.

• Dr. Drew met his wife, Susan, at a bar in Laguna Beach, California in the 1980s. They married in 1991 and have triplets; Douglas, Jordan, and Paulina. The triplets were conceived by invitro fertilization.

• In his little spare time, Drew likes to play with his children, read by the pool, play the piano, and sing opera - he’s a baritone with 12 years training.

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