Tom Cruise’s son Connor defends controversial comments over Caitlyn Jenner’s ESPY courage Award

TOM Cruise‘s son Connor has defended the controversial comments he made about Caitlyn Jenner receiving an accolade for courage at the ESPY Awards.

The actor’s 20-year-old son is reported to have used Twitter to vent his annoyance over the scheduled plans to award the 65-year-old the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the prestigious event.

After receving backlash for his comments, the DJ tweeted: “Totally twisting what I said, if you read what I said I totally support being happy and am glad she is happy…We just need to as a nation and a world get back to business and making everything a better place.

“Way more about the problems the world needs to solve than about her guys.”

In a series of posts that were reportedly later deleted, Connor questioned why Caitlyn should be honoured with the award: “Really? Winning the AA award for courage? Ashton is gonna come out and yell PUNK’D.”

Don’t get me wrong. Do what you feel like doing and don’t let anyone stop you. But everyone is taking this way too seriously…There are so many more important things that should be talked about…And SO MANY MORE IMPORTANT PEOPLE that actually deserve an award.” he is said to have added.

After insisting that he was “supportive” of “people staying true to themselves”, Connor went on to give an example of a cause that he believes needs attention.

“Like the fact that we are overfishing and in 30 years there will be no more fish. Seems dumb but 85 percent of the world’s protein is fish. That’s one of thousands of things that should be of a higher importance than what is currently being gone over…Or what about the fact that our planet is becoming less habitable on a daily basis.

“Yet the population is increasing at an alarming rate…Or the fact that we all can’t even get along on earth lol.

“We fight and kill each other. We have war and poverty. This needs to change,” he concluded.

Caitlyn’s agent declined the offer to comment.

OK Magazine