Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise.

Nearly two decades after Tom Cruise publicly criticised Brooke Shields for using antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression, she is looking back on his “ridiculous” attack.

In her new memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts On Aging As A Woman, the Pretty Baby star got candid about her rift with Tom, who is a famous Scientologist.

“I was, according to Tom, spreading misinformation,” Brooke wrote. “An interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries.”

She said had Tom “taken a public swing” at her before she became a mother, she “probably would have stayed quiet”.

“I would have ignored his ridiculous rant. I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own (deluded) agenda,” Brooke continued in the memoir, as reported by US Weekly. “I would have been satisfied that his behaviour would speak for itself.”

During a bizarre rant in a 2005 interview with Today’s Matt Lauer, Tom said Brooke didn’t “understand the history of psychiatry” while bashing her for using “dangerous” antidepressants.

He deemed her “irresponsible” for taking medication while battling postpartum depression, alleging it “didn’t cure........

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