A gaunt-looking Tom Cruise made his return on "The Today Show" three years after his now infamous lash out at Matt Lauer.

Last time Tom Cruise was a guest on Matt Lauer's show, he talked about various psychiatric issues harshly criticizing the use of antidepressants. He claimed that postpartum depression could be cured with vitamins, also referring to actress Brooke Shields, who took pills to treat her postpartum depression. At the time, Lauer contended that friends of his had been helped by psychiatric drugs prompting Cruise to call him "glib."

Currently on a promotional tour for his new movie, "Valkyrie," the actor was back on the seat across from Lauer taking a moment to apologize for his remarks admitting he "came across as arrogant."

Speaking on an apologetic tone, Cruise said he didn't communicate his feelings the way he wanted to, and recalling the incident he said he wishes he "could have handled that better."

"I learned a good lesson," Cruise, who appeared both earnest about and embarrassed by his 2005 outburst, told Lauer, adding that he isn't done publicly talking about Scientology or expressing his views on controversial social issues but that he finally understood that "there's a time and place" for everything. Cruise, who has been a Scientologist for 25 years, agrees with the religion's long-running campaign against psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.

"Things can get misunderstood and twisted," he said. "When people are tuning in to hear about my movie, that's what I'm here to talk about it."

"For me, I just take responsibility for it. I'm here to entertain people," Cruise concluded.

The two continued to discuss about the heated interview and Cruise explained that he was in a foul mood because "there was I think a confluence of events that happened during that time. It was the end of a PR tour, a lot of stuff was going on."
When it was Lauer's turn to clear the air, the host said that there were no hard feelings after the interview contrary to public belief, "There was no animosity."

He then talked about Cruise's funny speech at his roast this October. In fact, the segment even showed a clip of the pair hugging.

Moving on to other topics, Lauer brought up the couch-jumping incident on Oprah Winfrey's show telling the actor that he doesn't see him jumping on couches anymore.

"I can't help that," said Cruise, who jumped all over Oprah's couch during one of her shows in 2005, as a declaration of his love for wife Katie Holmes with whom he has a 2-year-old daughter. "She's an amazing woman."

Tom Cruise's Nazi-filled movie opens Dec. 25. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film, which was mysteriously kept under wraps, portrays the seldom-recalled German resistance to Adolf Hitler. Cruise plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the main figures in the assassination plot and coup attempt against the Nazi leader.

On July 20, 1944, Stauffenberg conspired to kill Hitler with a bomb and install a change-of-power scheme called "Operation Valkyrie." The plot failed, Hitler would kill himself in April 1945, and about 200 were executed for their involvement.