Brooke Shields says Tom Cruise 'eventually apologized' for his 'ridiculous rant' about her use of antidepressants but adds, 'It wasn’t the world’s best apology.'

Nearly two decades after Tom Cruise publicly criticized Brooke Shields for using antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression, Shields is looking back on his “ridiculous” attack. In her new memoir,

In her new book Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old ( via E! ), the actress says she was “gobsmacked” by Cruise’s decision to call her out. She would eventually write a New York Times op-ed criticizing Cruise for making statements about a condition he could not experience.

Brooke Shields revealed what went down with Tom Cruise after his infamous rant about her in 2005. For context, back in the mid-'00s, Brooke published a memoir called Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. In it, she discussed taking an antidepressant after the birth of her first child, Rowan.

It wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it,” the “Suddenly Susan” alum wrote in her new memoir.

Cruise's 2005 comments came after the release of her earlier memoir, D own Came the Rain, in which she detailed her experience with postpartum depression after welcoming daughter Rowan, now 21. Along with Rowan, Shields and husband Chris Henchy also share 18-year-old daughter Grier.

In Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, the actress details the most memorable moments on her road to empowerment and embracing her age.

Brooke Shields has shed light on her fall-out with Tom Cruise, and his attempts to mend things with a personal apology. The Blue Lagoon actress unpacked her extraordinary life story in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, which is on bookshelves today.