Tom Cruise claims that Scientology helped him overcome dyslexia.

Tom told Spain's XL Semanal magazine he was "labelled" with having the learning disability when he was seven.

He said he used to wonder if he was "normal or an idiot", adding that he would try to concentrate but his memory was short and he felt "anxiety, frustration, boredom".

He said he was "functionally illiterate" when he graduated from school.

"Nobody gave me a solution and I wanted to know why the system had failed. Finally, as an adult, I learned to read perfectly through the technology method of L Ron Hubbard."

The late Hubbard was Scientology's founder.

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