Tom Cruise is notorious for performing his own stunts in his adrenaline-packed movies – and it appears his love of testing himself to the extreme started as a young child.MORE: Tom Cruise's children show support for famous dad with rare public messageThe 59-year-old opened up about the terrifying near-death experience he faced when he was just four years old after he jumped off the roof of his home trying to imitate a parachuting doll he played with.WATCH: Tom Cruise in the new official Top Gun: Maverick trailerSpeaking at the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick at the Cannes Film Festival, Tom explained: "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."MORE: Nicole Kidman makes rare comment about ex-husband Tom Cruise and parentingREAD: Tom Cruise's son reveals large tattoo He continued: "I looked and my mother was in the kitchen - she had four kids - and I jumped off the roof.
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.' Tom has performed his own stunts for years"And I hit the ground so hard.
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