Actor Tom Cruise has spoken about his own troubled relationship with his father, as he awaits the birth of his baby with fiancée Katie Holmes.
Speaking to Parade magazine, Cruise described his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, as "a bully and a coward".
He said that he was "the person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life, how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang," he said.
"For me it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.' There's that anxiety."
Cruise also said in the interview that he visited his father in hospital before he died, after ten years of estrangement.
He explained that his father "was in the hospital dying of cancer, and he would only meet me on the basis that I didn't ask him anything about the past."
"When I saw him in pain, I thought, 'What a lonely life.' He was in his late 40s. It was sad," Cruise told the magazine.
The actor also spoke about how he was bullied at school and revealed that he battled with dyslexia as a child.
