At 64 Tom Cruise’s Tragedy Is Beyond Heartbreaking

He is the biggest movie star of his generation. Top Gun. Mission: Impossible. A career that has earned billions and turned him into the last true action hero. But behind the stunts and the success, there is a story most people have forgotten. The couch. The studio that threw him out. The divorce that came without warning. And a daughter whose life he has been absent from for years. This is the story of Tom Cruise — the rise, the 2005 meltdown that changed how the world saw him, and the price of staying on top. Fallen Icons. Every week, the story behind the story.