Tom Cruise stole alcohol as a boy

TOM Cruise was once kicked out of a seminary after he was caught stealing booze with his friends.

The famed Scientology supporter wanted to be a priest in his teenage years - but was left pursuing another career path when St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati asked him to leave after two years.

School friend Shane Dempler recalled how the pair were reprimanded after they sneaked in to a room where the alcohol could be found and used an open window to smuggle it out of the building.

He told the New York Daily News newspaper: "I tossed about six, most broke, but we managed to get a couple and hide them in the nearby woods.

"The priests didn't even realise until some of the other boys found out about our plan and snuck into the woods and got drunk. They were caught staggering down the road to the seminary and forced to confess.

"The school wrote a letter to our parents saying they liked us both, but would prefer if we didn't return. So we weren't kicked out, just preferred not to go."

And despite his bad behaviour Shane is insistent that Tom was totally dedicated to Catholicism at the time.

He added: "He had a very strong Catholic faith.

"We went to Mass, spent time in the chapel and enjoyed hearing stories from the priests. We thought the priests had a great lifestyle and we were really interested in priesthood. In truth we were too young to make that decision."

But it seems even at that time - the pair were classmates between 1976 and 1977 - Tom was laying the foundations for his rise to fame.

Shane revealed: "In sport and acting, he came out of his shell. They were competitions, you see, and if it were competitive, he'd be on it. Otherwise he'd just survey the scene.

"We had a great drama teacher in Father Aubert Grieser. He taught us how to speak in public. We used to get into trouble, as Aubert would tell us not to spit when we were speaking and we'd spit on purpose. It'd cost us 50 cents."

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