[KevinTheOmnivore]

Tom Cruise has been famous for roughly twenty years now. The media isn't just targeting him now because he's due, or because they just found out he's a Scientologist (which he has practiced for 16 years now). There's a lot of famous Scientologists, and none of them nearly draw the press Cruise does.

Around the same time he started saying really stupid shit he had also hired Lee Anne DeVette, his sister and fellow Scientologist, to be his agent. I've seen this linked in some places, and it makes sense that she may have set him loose and encouraged this batshit behavior.

I think he recently fired her though.