Dr. Drew Pinsky got himself into a bit of hot water over a Playboy interview where he said that Tom Cruise’s interest in Scientology is “a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood – maybe some abuse but mostly neglect.”

Tom Cruise’s lawyers sprung into action and called Dr. Drew Pinsky an “unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety [and] is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from [Nazi propagandist] Joseph Goebbels.”

Now Dr. Drew has issued an apology over the Tom Cruise diss, with his rep commenting: “…under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm.”