After causing the world to breathe a sigh of relief recently when he vowed to keep his wackjob Scientologist ideas to himself and stick to talking about films, Tom Cruise has already broken his New Year's resolution by blabbing to a Spanish magazine that Scientology cured his childhood dyslexia...

Speaking to XL Semanal magazine, Cruise said: "I asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom."

 

Which sounds like the experience of watching a Tom Cruise film etc etc.

 

"When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate," he added.

 

"Nobody gave me a solution and I wanted to know why the system had failed. Finally, as an adult I learned to read perfectly through the method of L. Ron Hubbard."

 

The fact that the solution came with the added treatment for 'what the hell am I to do with these millions of dollars?' syndrome and that this might expose an idiocy of another kind seems to be lost on Cruise.