Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer Clear the Air

“Three and a half years after the interview heard ’round the world, Tom Cruise is back in the studio, today,” Matt Lauer said at the very top of Monday’s Today show.

Lauer wasn’t kidding. Hovering over Lauer and co-anchor Meredith Vieira as they were trying to open the morning program at 7 a.m. was Cruise, standing over their desk, even though the interview segment to promote his Christmas release Valkyrie wasn’t slated until the 7:30 half-hour.

“Let’s set the record straight,” Lauer said before Monday’s sit-down with his one-time on-air sparring partner. “This is not Rocky II.”

But the two did finally clear the air – and discussed at length – their June 2004 confrontation, in which Cruise angrily accused Lauer of being glib during a discussion of Brooke Shields’s use of anti-depressants to treat her post-partum depression.

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More than three years after Tom Cruise’s unforgettable interview with Matt Lauer, the three-time Oscar-nominated actor returns to ‘Today’, reports newstoday.com. On Monday, December 15, Cruise will sit down once again with Lauer for a live interview in Studio 1A.

Cruise will talk to Lauer about his latest historical thriller, “Valkyrie,” and his role in the much buzzed-about film. The legendary actor will also chat about his distinguished career, his family, including wife Katie Holmes, and children Connor, Isabella and Suri and their life at home.”

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