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"It&amp;apos;s been eight years, but Matt Lauer&amp;apos;s 2005 interview with Tom Cruise -- in which the actor called the TODAY show host &amp;quot;glib&amp;quot; and criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants -- is still one of the most infamous TV tongue-lashings in recent memory. During a lengthy sit-down with Lauer on Wednesday, June 19, radio host Howard Stern resurfaced the incident and asked the NBC morning show anchor to recall how everything went down.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;There are times where, when you least expect it, you get someone who sits on this couch...and all of a sudden you say something and you can see in the person&amp;apos;s&amp;apos; eyes a physical change,&amp;quot; Lauer, 55, told Stern on his Sirius XM show. &amp;quot;That was one of those times...I knew I was going to go in a certain area, and you watch the change, and then it&amp;apos;s your job almost to get the hell out of the way.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;It touched a nerve, no question,&amp;quot; he added later of the whole psychiatry vs. Scientology debate, which ignited Cruise&amp;apos;s rant. &amp;quot;That was a very big nerve in his life and in his belief system.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLauer said Cruise&amp;apos;s public relations people called the show after the taping and asked that &amp;quot;the whole anti-depressant thing&amp;quot; not be included in the broadcast, but producers said no deal. &amp;quot;It was like, &amp;apos;Yeah...without that, we don&amp;apos;t have a segment,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; he recalled.\r\nThings after that were initially icy between the two, but Cruise later apologized; in a 2008 interview with Lauer, he admitted to coming across as &amp;quot;arrogant&amp;quot; and said their interaction did not go as he had intended.\r\nPHOTOS: The biggest celebrity feuds ever\r\n&amp;quot;I want to put it in perspective,&amp;quot; Lauer told Stern, &amp;quot;because although there was maybe a Cold War period after that interview of about a year, he since has come forward and said, you know, that was a strange time in his life and he regrets the way it came across.&amp;quot; (A strange time, indeed: The interview happened at the beginning of Cruise&amp;apos;s romance with Katie Holmes, shortly after his couch-jumping antics on The Oprah Winfrey Show.)\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;[He] has gone out of his way to be awfully nice to me since then,&amp;quot; Lauer added, noting that the Oblivion star paid tribute to him at a Friars Club roast in 2008. Later, he stressed again: &amp;quot;It was a weird time in his life and career.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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