Tom Cruise revealed that his father was "a bully and a coward" in an upcoming magazine interview. "He was the person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you," Cruise said. The star made peace with his father on his deathbed after a ten-year estrangement. "He was in the hospital dying of cancer, and he would only meet me on the basis that I didn't' ask him anything about the past. When I saw him in pain, I thought, 'What a lonely life.' He was in his late 40s. It was sad."