The one we used to call little Suri has grown up a lot. While the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes celebrated her 18th birthday on April 18, she is enjoying her life as a young New Yorker, far from the Church of Scientology of which her father is still a part. Seen going to her prom, Suri Cruise was accompanied by a charming young man.
The future student at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University attended the prom at her high school La Guardia wearing a patterned beige and burgundy corset dress. Suri was accompanied by one of her classmates, Toby Cohen. This one would be a singer and songwriter, about to join the Berklee College of Music in Boston. No trace however of his dad, Tom Cruise was absent and that is not surprising!
Suri Cruise was spotted the next morning kissing this same young man in Central Park. No doubt, the daughter of the hero of Top Gun is in love. As she prepares to leave the family nest to officially become a student, the young woman has not seen her famous dad for a good ten years: he was not present nor to celebrate her last birthday , since he was thousands of kilometers away, in London, on the set of Mission Impossible 8. A distance which was symbolically reinforced when Suri made the decision to separate from her father’s surname.
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, a couple who did not resist Scientology
During their love story, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise became the happy parents of little Suri Cruise. The one who looks exactly like her mother hasn’t seen her father for eleven years. Indeed, Katie Holmes wanted to keep her daughter away from the Scientology cult adored by her ex-husband and has, since 2012, had sole custody. An estrangement which would be true due to the sectarian organization of Tom Cruise. HAS The Sun Karen De La Carriere, a key member of Scientology for thirty-five years, claims that this sect “only seeks to break up families“.
Indeed, as soon as Suri’s mother decided to divorce Tom Cruise and remove their only child from the influence of the secret organization, the father-daughter relationship was put in danger. By parting ways with the 61-year-old actor, Scientology’s most prominent follower, Katie Holmes was seen as someone who should be kept away from other followers.
Investigative journalist Tony Ortega, who has been digging into the inner workings of the church for twenty-nine years, says: “When Katie split from Tom, any normal Scientologist would have been informed that she was considered a suppressive person, an enemy of the Church.” However, Tom Cruise has always denied cutting his daughter out of his life, although he has not been seen in public with Suri in years, which is not the case for his other two children, Isabella and Connor . Karen says: “Under strict doctrine, Tom cannot engage or communicate with his own daughter.“
