Tom Cruise with Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day

Tom Cruise with Oprah Winfrey in the 2006 show

Hollywood star Tom Cruise has opened up about his bizarre couch-jumping act during an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2006.

The actor was reportedly jumping up and down on the couch chair expressing his love for Katie Holmes at the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Cruise was on the show to promote his movie Knight and Day opposite Cameron Diaz. The now 47-year-old actor admits to being confused by the repercussion over his erratic behaviour — namely the couch jump — to express his love for Katie.

The incident led to the cancellation of Cruise’s contract with Studio Paramount Pictures after 14 years, reports The Daily Telegraph.

“There was a confluence of events,” Cruise told Esquire magazine. “My deal with Paramount was up and it wasn’t extended. At first it was, Huh? I don’t get it, but people have misconceptions about that whole thing, too,” he said.

Tom added that he was just trying to please the show’s audience. “What happened happened. I wanted the audience to be happy just like I wanted to make my sisters and my mother happy when I did those skits as a kid, but I’ll take responsibility for my actions,” Cruise said.

“It felt like being the new kid in the schoolyard again and the other kids are whispering and whispering about you and suddenly you hear what they’re saying, and you think, what? That didn’t happen. Look at the reality of the situation,” he added.