If you ever attend a party at Tommy Cruise’s house, do not,
by any means, push any button. And I don’t just mean the button you push when
you walk up to Tommy and say, “Scientology is a cult!” Or “Leah was right!” or
“How many fake marriages have you had?”
No, I don’t mean those buttons, I mean an actual button that
was pushed by actress Kyra Sedgwick, who was invited to a party at Tom’s house
in the early 1990s and ended up having the place surrounded by the police after
she touched something in the house. Here’s what she says: “[T]here was this, like, fireplace mantel and I was looking
around and there was this little button underneath the mantel. A little button.
I was like, ‘Oh, what is that little button?’ So, I pressed the little button
because I just thought maybe something interesting will happen. Nothing
happened and then I got a little nervous. I was like, ‘Oh, nothing happened
that doesn’t seem right.’ So, I tapped Tom on the shoulder, who was in the
middle of a story, and I said, ‘I pressed this button down here.’ And he was
like, ‘You pressed that button?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I pressed that button.’
And he goes, ‘That’s the panic button.'” The police were automatically called out to Tommy’s house,
and he was forced to explain that it was all a mistake.
It could have been worse … she could have pushed that other
button and asked:
“Have you seen your daughter lately?”
I imagine an entire Co$ swat team would have descended on
the house and Kyra Sedgwick might never have been seen again.
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