Many Believe Tom Cruise May Make an Unexpected Move on Daugther Suri’s Birthday Today
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Suri Cruise — America’s infant sweetheart — is 18 today. A legal adult! Suri. Cruise. Who was once the most public celebrity child, can now register to vote (yay!), and buy cigarettes (please don’t!) and buy lottery tickets (although, does she need to hit the jackpot?).
We’re sure she’ll get a whole lot of love today from her lookalike mom Katie Holmes. But the question on everyone’s mind is, will she hear from dad Tom Cruise? The two have a notoriously estranged relationship. So much so, that it’s believed they haven’t seen each other since Holmes and Cruise divorced in 2012.
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Cruise is a leading figure in Scientology, and in “typical” situations, members of the Church are not allowed to speak to family members who left the Church. But given Cruise’s profile, it’s unlikely that rule will be enforced.
“If you are a regular church member you could be told to disconnect from your wife and daughter, but because Tom is a celebrity — he’s the top celebrity — he gets to ignore all this stuff,” Scientology reporter Tony Ortega previously said. “Your average member would be kicked out, but [the leader of Scientology] David Miscavige can’t do that with Tom.”
So will Suri be getting a birthday call? It’s hard to say. There’s plenty of precedent to think she’ll be getting an extravagant gift. He’s certainly been generous with costars on their big days. Dakota Fanning recently told Harper’s Bazaar that Cruise has been getting her birthday gifts every year since they costarred in War of the Worlds in 2005, when she was just 11 years old. Plus, he got her her first cell phone.
“It was a Razr, Motorola Razr,” she recalled. “Oh, my God, I was so excited … I felt so cool,” she said, despite “not having anybody to call or text.”
Plus, in court documents obtained by the New York Post, former Scientologist Leah Remini claimed she was made to “raise money for Scientology causes led by Cruise” and “forced to donate money to name a seat in a Scientology auditorium after Suri.”
… Just what every teen wants!
Or, will Suri be the one to make a move? Maybe instead of getting a birthday tribute from her dad, she’ll be posting an Instagram tell-all. Holmes likely had to sign nondisclosure agreements at the time of the divorce that keeps her from talking about her former marriage and time inside the Church of Scientology, but Suri would have been too young to have a signature — much less sign a contract.
“She will now be free to talk if she wants to and it’s going to be really interesting if she has something to say,” Ortega said.
Regardless of how any family drama plays out, we’re wishing Suri a very happy 18th birthday!
Before you go, check out these celebrity parents who love to spoil their kids with expensive gifts.
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