Thursday 19 May 2022 03:16 PM Tom Cruise reveals he jumped off the roof his home aged FOUR trends now
He recently reprised his role as LT Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick.
And Tom Cruise, who famously does his own stunts, recalled the time he leaped off the roof at just four-years-old when speaking at the premiere in Cannes, on Wednesday.
The actor, 59, confessed he feared he was 'going to die' but luckily it didn't put him off stunts for good.
'I thought I was going to die': Tom Cruise, 59, revealed he 'jumped off the roof' during a daredevil stunt at four-years-old at the Top Gun: Maverick premiere in Cannes on Wednesday
During a panel discussion at the Cannes Film Festival, he confessed: 'I think I was about four-and-a-half years old, and I had this doll, and you throw it up in the air and a parachute comes down.
'I played with this thing, and I'd throw it off a tree, and I was like, "I really want to do this." I remember taking the sheets off my bed, and I would tie a rope... and I climbed up to the eave, and I got up to the roof.
'I looked and my mother was in the kitchen - she had four kids - and I jumped off the roof.'
Recalling the time, Tom said: 'I remember taking the sheets off my bed, and I would tie a rope... and I climbed up to the eave, and I got up to the roof'
Daredevil: He detailed: 'I remember taking the sheets off my bed, and I would tie a rope... and I climbed up to the eave, and I got up to the roof'
He continued: 'It's that moment when you jump off the roof and you go, "This is not gonna work. This is terrible. I'm gonna die." And I hit the ground so hard. Luckily, it was wet.
'I don't know how it happened, but I figured out after that my face went past my feet as my a** hit the ground.
'And I saw stars in the daytime for the first time, and I remember looking up, going, "This is very interesting."'
