His behavior is fishy from top to bottom, and the public has always tried to figure out why. Whether it’s the supposition that he’s secretly gay or his open admission to running scientology “information tents” on the sets of his films, there is a steady stream of questions and misinformation that keep the “real him” obfuscated from the public.
This is interesting reading, and would explain a lot: http://www.jossip.com/gossip/tom-cruise/tom-cruise-is-gay-now-with-substantially-more-fake-evidence-20050629.php
He is inviting the criticism, and is the most vocal and visible proponent of scientology out there. I work at a university with a scientology center right across the street, so yeah, I am inclined to believe it’s a cult.