Be warned, dear celebrity gossip followers and loyal readers:
You’re about to feel extremely old.
Why?
Because Suri Cruise is about to officially become an adult.
Suri was born on April 18, 2006, the only child of actress Katie Holmes and global star Tom Cruise, and immediately became one of the most famous young people in world history
That’s not really an exaggeration.
At five months old, Suri made her public debut on the cover of Vanity Fair, photographed at the time by Annie Leibovitz alongside her well-known parents.
Almost since then, however, Holmes has done everything she can to shield her daughter from the spotlight… while Tom Cruise has unfortunately piqued the curiosity of the citizens by essentially ghosting the teenager.
As previously reported, Cruise had nothing to do with Suri. The two have no relationship at all.
Last month, Page Six wrote that the actor “hasn’t seen anything [Suri] in a very long time and is not a part of their lives.”
Cruise, for his part, has not spoken publicly about this child since 2013, when he was deposed over his lawsuit against Bauer Media Group.
“Listen, when there’s a divorce…things change. It’s not an ideal scene. “This is not an ideal situation,” Tom told the lawyers when asked if it was true that he had barely seen his daughter in the past year.
As far as we can tell and have read, Cruise hasn’t seen Suri since 2012 – which just seems unimaginable.
There has even been speculation that he wants to cut off Suri’s child support, although this issue will be resolved for him at least by April 18, 2024.
Once Suri turns 18, her child support obligation ceases… and she can make her own decisions.
Will she turn to Tom? Will she join the Church of Scientology? Will she destroy her father in a meeting with Oprah Winfrey or another journalist?
We have no answers because Holmes raised Suri to be so protective.
“Katie has been protective of Suri and she is a devoted mother,” a source previously told the New York Post. “This is a girl who is a private person. She hasn’t lived her life in public.”
Holmes, meanwhile, told Glamor magazine in 2023 that she likes to “protect” Suri from the public “because she was so visible at a young age.”
“I’m very grateful to be a parent, to be their parent. She is an incredible person. She’s my heart,” the Dawson’s Creek alum added.
Actress Leah Remini, who attended Cruise and Holmes’ Italian wedding in November 2006, has told Page Six in the past that she had concerns about Suri.
She thinks that Tom has waited until now to sink his misguided claws into the young woman.
“I’m sure his master plan is to wait until Suri gets older so he can lure her into Scientology and away from her mother,” Remini said in 2020.
We can’t say for sure.
Cruise, who has two adult children with his ex-wife Nicole Kidman, is clearly not a reliable source when it comes to his own views on parenting.
“All my life I’ve always wanted to be a father,” he told Vanity Fair in 2006, adding at the time:
“I always told myself that my children could count on me and that I would always be there for them and love them.”