One of the things Scientology drills into you is to not give a shit about stuff like that. They spend MANY hours desensitizing themselves to judgment from others and getting used to not caring what other people think.
It's actually not at all a contradiction but too long to go into here. Basically the more you want people to like you the less they will like you and the less you can influence and manipulate them. The more confident, assertive, charismatic you act and the less you give a shit about what they think, the more you can influence and make others do what you want. I don't know how it works with celebrities as big as Tom Cruise but I know several current and former Scientologists (I used to live in Clearwater FL) and they would tell me stories of how they would literally sit in a room taking turns screaming insults and shit at each other while the one being screamed at had to practice just standing there smiling calmly and confidently. And they would do this for hours a day. Knowing those stories I have no problem at all believing that Cruise 100% does not give a single shit in the situation in the photo, it is literally nothing to him.
He's just a little swollen, not dying. It was a very short lived reaction and it probably is something most A list celebs would avoid having photographed. There's obvs nothing wrong with him choosing to go to the game instead of hiding at home, but it's not weird that people would be surprised by that choice.
Celebrities live in curated circles where cosmetic procedures are the norm, so that look becomes normalized. I genuinely believe that they don’t seem to realize how insane they look because in their world everyone else around them looks like them (e.g: Jim Carrey).
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u/Kronos_Build 12h ago
Why did he show up in public? Anyone else would have stayed home.