The 6 biggest reveals in Seth Rogen's new book, from a ridiculous meeting with Tom Cruise to the disastrous '8 Mile' audition that left him laughing hysterically

"Yearbook" is filled with celebrity encounters, but this one is the most eye-opening.

In 2006, Rogen and his "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow went to Cruise's house because the superstar was interested in doing a comedy.

The five-hour meeting was going great until towards the end, when Cruise began talking about how he was being negatively perceived by the public at the time.

This conversation happened a year after Cruise had professed his love to actress Katie Holmes by infamously jumping on Oprah Winfrey's couch during an interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

"Well, yeah, they're making it seem like I'm losing my mind," Cruise said of all the attention, according to Rogen's book. "There's a coordinated effort to make it appear that way."

"Who would do that?" Rogen recalled asking.

"The pharmaceutical industry. Because my exposure of their fraud has cost them SO much money that they're desperate. They're scrambling and they're doing everything they can to discredit me so I won't hurt sales anymore," Cruise replied, according to Rogen.

Back in 2005, Cruise caused controversy for speaking out about his views on prescription drugs (Scientology, the religion Cruise follows, condemns "mind-altering medicine").

In that year, Cruise appeared on "Access Hollywood" and called Brooke Shields "irresponsible" when she said she took antidepressants to battle postpartum depression (Shields said in 2016 that Cruise later apologized to her). The star also had a heated exchange with "Today" host Matt Lauer when Lauer said he knew people who were helped by antidepressants.

"Big Pharma made you jump on Oprah's couch?" Rogen said he asked Cruise at the 2006 meeting.

"They edited it to make it look so much worse than it was," Cruise responded.

Rogen, Apatow, and Cruise never worked together, but Cruise did get to do his comedy. He went on to play the vile studio boss Les Grossman in Ben Stiller's 2008 satirical comedy "Tropic Thunder."

Rogen learned very quickly at the 2011 Grammys that there are famous people, like him, and then there's Beyoncé.

He was at the awards show that year to introduce a performance by Eminem, Dr Dre, and Rihanna. While he was backstage waiting to give his intro, he said hello to Eminem, and Dre said to him, "I hope the intro is funny!" He also somehow ended up in Bob Dylan's greenroom.

But things took a turn when Rogen saw Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow arm-in-arm. He decided to walk over and introduce himself.

"In retrospect, I approached with too much confidence," Rogen wrote in "Yearbook." "I didn't have nearly the reverence I should have. I should have gone up to her like you would the queen or that giant bird creature in 'Harry Potter' that you have to bow to before you can fly around on it."

Rogen said he "marched up" to the legendary singer and said, "Hey, Beyoncé! I'm Seth and—"

Suddenly, Rogen wrote, a giant arm "like a baseball bat" hit him across the chest.

"I stumbled back and spilled my screwdriver all over myself," he wrote. "I was soaked. Her security had (wisely?) batted me away before I could get close. And at that exact moment, a PA came up to me and said, 'Alright, Seth, they're ready for you!'"

Rogen then went on stage and did his introduction. But he said he held his arm a certain way on stage so no one could see his spilled drink on him.

"I got what I deserved ... I was humiliated and I didn't get to meet Beyoncé," Rogen told E! News' Daily Pop about the incident while promoting the book.

The Eminem stories continue in the book as it turns out Rogen's "weirdest" audition ever was going out for the role of Cheddar Bob in "8 Mile."

But things got really strange because, according to Rogen, the movie's casting director refused to read lines across from the actors auditioning because of how "rappery" the material was, and so everyone auditioning had to bring along someone to read with them.

It turns out Rogen's friend and "Freaks & Geeks" costar Jason Segel was also going out for the Cheddar role.

"We asked our agents if our auditions could be scheduled one right after the other, so that one of us could audition for Cheddar, with the other reading the Rabbit part, and then we'd switch," Rogen wrote.

The two even had a sleepover at Rogen's apartment the night before to go over the lines and carpool to the audition the next morning.

But it didn't go well.

The two walked in, and Rogen played Cheddar first. Segel was off camera reading Rabbit's lines.

"Yo, yo, mothaf---a! It's Chedda! What up, b----!" Segel said, according to Rogen.

"I started laughing hysterically," Rogen said. "And so did Jason. We literally couldn't make it through the auditions. As soon as one of us started the scene, the other would lose it."

"Yo, yo, Rabbit!" Rogen responded, as Cheddar. "You gotta record your s--- at Paisley Park, yo!"

"Where, yo?" Segel asked, as Rabbit.

"Paisley Park, mothaf---a!" Rogen said.

"It was so silly, we couldn't finish," Rogen wrote. "We just excused ourselves and saw ourselves out, tears streaming down our faces."

The role of Cheddar ended up going to Evan Jones ("Jarhead"). "8 Mile" went on to be a big box-office success, and Eminem won the best original song Oscar for "Lose Yourself."

Add this one to the legend of Nicolas Cage.

Rogen recounts in "Yearbook" making the 2011 box-office bust "The Green Hornet" (which he starred in as the lead and also cowrote with his longtime producing partner, Evan Goldberg) and seeing Cage audition for the movie's villain.

Rogen wrote that the studio making the movie, Sony, really wanted Cage in the blockbuster. The first "red flag" Rogen noticed came during a preliminary phone call with Cage, in which the Oscar-winner told Rogen he wanted to have hair tattooed on his head and big prosthetic lips, and talk like Hollywood golden-age actor Edward G. Robinson for the role.

However, when Rogen and Cage finally met face-to-face at producer Amy Pascal's house, Rogen said everything changed. Now, Rogen recalled, Cage wanted to play the character as a white Bahamian.

According to Rogen's recollection, Cage set up the scene by saying that his character has the Green Hornet tied up and is pouring pig's blood on him and doing a "creepy voodoo ritual."

"Keep in mind there is NO scene in the screenplay that even remotely resembles this, but honestly, maybe there should have been?" Rogen wrote.

Then, Cage spoke in character.

"Cage (in a Bahamian/Jamaican-sounding accent): 'Ello, Green 'Ornet! Wagwan! Why you wear dis mask ting, mon? What dis be, mon? Why you 'iding you face, mon?! I kill you, 'Ornet!! I KILL YOU, 'ORNET!!!!!!!" Rogen wrote.

Everyone was dumbfounded, according to Rogen. Eventually Cage got the hint that they didn't like his idea for the role and walked away from the project.

However, the saga continued.

Years later, after "Spring Breakers" came out, in which James Franco plays a white rapper, Rogen and Goldberg got a call to meet with Cage.

"Did you ever tell him about that meeting we had?" Rogen said Cage asked him at the time. "About the white Jamaican guy? Is that where he got the idea for the guy in 'Spring Breakers?' Did he steal it from me?"

Rogen, who had no professional involvement in "Spring Breakers," told Cage that he believed Franco based the character on a Florida rapper.

"Because I saw it and I was like, "F---! I bet Seth told Franco about it, and then he took it and put it in that movie!" Cage said, according to Rogen.

Cage then left the meeting.

Recounting the story to Howard Stern while promoting "Yearbook," Rogen felt that Cage "very clearly didn't believe me" when he told the "Con Air" star that Franco didn't steal his idea.

In response to Rogen recounting the story, Cage told Insider via email through a representative that he "likes" Rogen and wished him well on the release of "Yearbook."

"[Rogen's] a funny guy and clearly a good storyteller," Cage said.

George Lucas was convinced the world was going to end in 2012. At least, that's what Rogen thinks.

In 2012, Rogen and Goldberg had a meeting with Steven Spielberg and it so happened that Lucas was there as well. Rogen wrote that while Spielberg had to go take a call, Rogen and Goldberg made some small talk with Lucas and quickly found out the "Star Wars" creator had something big on his mind.

"Well," Lucas said to the two, according to Rogen, "you know the world is going to end this year, right?"

Many people were scared that on or around December 21, 2012 a cataclysmic event would occur, as that date marked the end of the Mayan calendar. Turns out, according to Rogen, Lucas was one of those believers.

Lucas went on to tell the two that the event will lead to the collapse of California's San Andreas Fault line. The fault has been the location for many historic earthquakes over the years, including one in 1906 that killed about 3,000 people, according to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory.

"It's gonna fracture and everything west of it is gonna sink into the ocean, reshaping the world as we know it," Lucas said, per Rogen.

Lucas pointed out that's why his Skywalker Ranch is on the other side of the fault line.

"You really think that's gonna happen?" Goldberg asked Lucas, Rogen wrote.

"I know it's gonna happen," Lucas said. "It's science. And I know science."

Goldberg tried to then lighten the mood by saying if Lucas has a spaceship maybe they can get a ride when the world ends.

Lucas gave a look that said "no," Rogen wrote.

"It makes me think he wasn't joking," Rogen told Conan O'Brien while promoting the book. "Because, if you were joking, you would just say 'Yes'... But, no, he said, 'No.' To this day, I am confounded and plagued by that story."

2014 was a challenging year for Rogen. His politically-charged comedy "The Interview" — about two celebrity interviewers (Rogen and Franco) who, after being granted an interview with Kim Jong-un, are tasked by the CIA with assassinating the North Korean leader — caused an international incident when the studio releasing it, Sony, was subsequently hacked.

It led to the movie having its release pulled from most theaters following threats of violence to those who went to see it. The movie instead got a streaming release.

But through all the madness of that time, Rogen said one bright spot was the reach-out he got from some major celebrities.

"George Clooney tried to get all the heads of the major studios to sign a letter in solidarity with Sony and the film," Rogen wrote. "None of them would sign it, but I appreciated the attempt. The fact that Clooney spent even one afternoon thinking of me is flattering."

And then there was Russell Crowe.

"In the midst of the mayhem, I got an email from Russell Crowe, who I'd only met a couple times, inviting me to his ranch in Australia to hide if I needed to," Rogen wrote. "I said no, but it always struck me as nice."

"Yearbook" is already an extremely fascinating look into the life of one celebrity — but just imagine if there was a chapter dedicated to Rogen hiding out with Crowe in Australia!