In 2020, actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini told the New York Post that Tom Cruise's "main plan" to restore his relationship with his daughter Suri was to wait until the young woman turned 18 to "lure" her back to his church. . Well, that day came.
The only biological daughter of the Mission Impossible actor came of age on Thursday, April 18, and in recent days there has been speculation on social networks about her possible approach to the actor.
The questions about this relationship are countless. The answers, however, were few. Why hasn't Tom Cruise seen his daughter in 12 years? Did Scientology have anything to do with the breaking of your bond? Let's see.
Suri was born on April 18, 2006, at St. John's Hospital in the United States, shortly after the world learned about the relationship between her father and her mother, actress Katie Holmes.
The couple first showed their faces to the public in October 2006, in an interview that husband and wife did for Vanity Fair. The birth of his daughter was the topic of the moment in Hollywood. The images of little Suri were seen by almost 4 million people on the media's website. A record number for the time.
Tom was seen with Suri like many famous parents are with their babies. With just a handful of years of life, the baby became another celebrity. Just like her parents. So much so that when she was 6 she became a fashion icon. In those years, being just a little girl, she managed to star in her own fashion article in Vanity Fair.
You never know when it's the last moment of something until that moment happens. One day in 2012, Tom took Suri to Typhoon Lagoon, one of Disney's water parks, probably without knowing that this would be the last clear evidence of physical contact with his daughter (some international media, such as News.com.au, They say that the final photo was actually the following year).
Regardless, whether it was 2012 or 2013, the last time Tom would have seen his daughter Suri in person would have been when the girl was between 6 and 7 years old. What made them walk away from one day to the next?
The theory that gives the most insight into the motive for their separation is that of Scientology.
The church of Scientology, of which the Mission Impossible actor is a part (and is its symbol in the West), is a system of religious practices and beliefs developed in 1954 by the American author L. Ron Hubbard.
Scientology, in essence, says that humans are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature. It has a method of spiritual rehabilitation called “audit”, which invites its practitioners to relive traumatic events or experiences from their past with the aim of freeing themselves from their negative burden or limiting effects.
Everything, from the study of religion to the “audit”, is completely paid.
Scientology believes that its followers should not have ties with certain people who do not preach their beliefs. Hence the concept called Fair Game, which has been used since the 1950s to refer to those people - physical or not - considered enemies by Scientologists.
For this reason, it is often said that the faithful of that Church cannot have ties with those who are not.
For Remini, Scientology considered Holmes a "repressive person"; an enemy". And that would have been why Tom believed that he "couldn't be connected to Suri."
Little by little we are getting closer to the revealing data.
Holmes and Suri accompanied Tom into Scientology to a certain extent. They separated from that Church one day when Katie, for unknown reasons, had to abandon her baby for six months. It was the straw that broke the camel's back: that decision began the end of Tom's marriage and his bond with his daughter.
As if that were not enough, Suri had started kindergarten at the New Village Leadership Academy, a private school founded by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith that was always said to have ties to Scientology. She was his star student until her mother, for reasons already mentioned, took her out of there.
When Holmes filed for divorce from Tom in 2012, the actress had enrolled her daughter in Avenues, a private school in Manhattan. The following year, coincidentally, the institution run by the Smith couple closed.
For further proof of the theory that Scientology would have separated Tom from his family, one can remember when in the divorce proceedings, Cruise openly admitted that the Church had played a key role in estrangement from his ex-wife. .
Everything closes: since the divorce and the departure of Holmes and Suri from Scientology, Tom stopped appearing publicly with the girl.
At first, Tom denied what the press said about him and his daughter. In fact, the actor took Bauer Media Group to court over an In Touch report that claimed he had “abandoned” Suri.
As reported by US Weekly years after the divorce, Cruise and Holmes' top-secret arrangement allowed the actor to see Suri up to 10 days a month, but he chose not to see her due to his religion. Like this for years.
A source confirmed this to News.com.au last year. That person said Cruise hadn't seen his daughter in "a long time" and that Suri "isn't part of his life."
Tom hasn't seen his daughter in over ten years, which doesn't mean he doesn't recognize her. At least until he turned 18, Cruise gave Holmes $400,000 a year to raise the girl. It is unknown what the arrangement will be like from now on.
Currently, the teenager lives with her mother and is passionate about singing. Her voice is often heard in many films Holmes works on.
