Tom Cruise’s crazed quest to remain the world’s top action star is threatening to break the actor, with sources telling the National ENQUIRER they fear he’ll kill himself if he keeps pushing the envelope.
Insiders say a string of incredible stunts for his Mission: Impossible film epics have put the 62-year-old daredevil in danger and reveal a limitless desire to remain the action king, no matter the consequences.
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“Tom is relentless in keeping himself in amazing shape and has made zero concessions to age,” a source marvels. “In fact, he is driving himself harder than ever.”
“It’s almost as though he’ll kill himself to stay on top. People are worried he’ll put himself in harm’s way once too often.”
As the ENQUIRER previously reported, Tom shattered his ankle jumping from the rooftop of one building to another during the filming of 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout, yet incredibly he finished shooting the scene.
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His newest flick, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, broke a Guinness World Record in shooting a scene where he leaped out of a helicopter using a burning parachute and defied death 16 times.
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“He’ll go 24 or even 48 hours without sleep, subsisting on nothing more than caffeine and neurotic drive,” explains the source. “When he’s not filming, he’s working out, tackling Scientology auditing sessions, raising money for his next project.”
“At some point he’s going to collapse or kill himself performing these crazy stunts.”
The image-conscious, three-times-divorced hunk also has been linked to beautiful younger gals, including Russian socialite Elsina Khayrova and, currently, former Ben Affleck babe Ana de Armas.
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“She’s almost half his age, and people speculate that it may be just as much about image as romance,” a source says of Tom and the 37-year-old Ballerina actress.
Mental health expert Dr. Gilda Carle, author of Real Men Don’t Go Woke, tells the ENQUIRER that she believes his antics are “a desperate refusal” regarding “getting older,” and fears he’ll continue “riskier and more radical, dangerous behavior that could end badly.”