Tuesday, April 13, 2004
This press release went out from Agence France Press today. I think it bears repeating here. What a fabulous thing for Tom Cruise to be doing!
HEADLINE: Tom Cruise raises 1.2 million dollars for Sept 11 rescuers
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, April 12
US movie star Tom Cruise helped raise 1.2 million dollars to treat emergency workers exposed to toxic materials following the September 11 terror strikes in New York, organisers said Monday.
Cruise, 41, pitched in to help raise cash for the alternative treatment for rescuers suffering debilitating effects from toxic exposure in the recovery and clean-up effort following the 2001 attacks in New York, according to publishers of a book detailing the treatment.
The heart-throb actor, who is a keen member of the Church of Scientology, backed the drive to provide a detox regimen designed by church founder L Ron Hubbard and outlined in his book "Clear Body Clear Mind."
The regimen consists of "exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals to help rescue workers cleanse their bodies of toxic residues" and has helped about 200 emergency workers, according to Los Angeles-based Bridge Publications that releases Hubbard's non-fiction works.
"Once the (World Trade Center) towers had gone down and we were faced with the aftermath of their collapse, I could not get out of my mind that huge cloud billowing across Manhattan," Cruise was quoted as telling a fundraiser dinner for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project in New York on March 25.
"I worried about those who had survived and been exposed. Shortly thereafter I visited Ground Zero and knew immediately that not only would people be getting ill, very ill, but that it would be sooner rather than later," he said.
The cash raised will go towards treating around 400 firefighters and emergency workers at a detox center on New York's Long Island.
"It's very exciting and will help us open the facility on Long Island," Cruise's sister and publicist Lee Anne DeVette told AFP.
HEADLINE: Tom Cruise raises 1.2 million dollars for Sept 11 rescuers
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, April 12
US movie star Tom Cruise helped raise 1.2 million dollars to treat emergency workers exposed to toxic materials following the September 11 terror strikes in New York, organisers said Monday.
Cruise, 41, pitched in to help raise cash for the alternative treatment for rescuers suffering debilitating effects from toxic exposure in the recovery and clean-up effort following the 2001 attacks in New York, according to publishers of a book detailing the treatment.
The heart-throb actor, who is a keen member of the Church of Scientology, backed the drive to provide a detox regimen designed by church founder L Ron Hubbard and outlined in his book "Clear Body Clear Mind."
The regimen consists of "exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals to help rescue workers cleanse their bodies of toxic residues" and has helped about 200 emergency workers, according to Los Angeles-based Bridge Publications that releases Hubbard's non-fiction works.
"Once the (World Trade Center) towers had gone down and we were faced with the aftermath of their collapse, I could not get out of my mind that huge cloud billowing across Manhattan," Cruise was quoted as telling a fundraiser dinner for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project in New York on March 25.
"I worried about those who had survived and been exposed. Shortly thereafter I visited Ground Zero and knew immediately that not only would people be getting ill, very ill, but that it would be sooner rather than later," he said.
The cash raised will go towards treating around 400 firefighters and emergency workers at a detox center on New York's Long Island.
"It's very exciting and will help us open the facility on Long Island," Cruise's sister and publicist Lee Anne DeVette told AFP.
