Consider yourself warned, dear celebrity gossip loyal followers and readers:
You are about to feel extremely old.
Why?
Because Suri Cruise is about to become an official adult.
The only child of actress Katie Holmes and global superstar Tom Cruise, Suri was born on April 18, 2006 and instantly became one of the most famous young people in the history of the world.
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 that time, however, Holmes has gone to great lengths to shield his daughter from the spotlight… while Tom Cruise has unfortunately kept citizens’ curiosity piqued, essentially turning the teenager into a ghost.
As previously reported, Cruise had nothing to do with Suri. The two have no relationship.
Last month, Page Six wrote that the actor “hasn’t seen (Suri) in a long time and is not a part of her life.”
For his part, Cruise has not spoken publicly about this child since 2013, when he was deposed in connection with the lawsuit against Bauer Media Group.
“Listen, when there’s a divorce… things change. It’s not an ideal scene. It’s not an ideal situation,” Tom told lawyers when asked if it was true that he had barely seen his daughter in the past year.
From what we can tell and what we’ve read, Cruise hasn’t seen Suri since 2012 – which seems unimaginable.
There was even speculation that he wants cut off Suri’s alimonyalthough this issue will be fixed for him at least on April 18, 2024.
When Suri turns 18, child support responsibilities no longer exist… and she can make her own choices.
Will she contact Tom? Will she join the Church of Scientology? Will she criticize her father in a meeting with Oprah Winfrey or another journalist?
We don’t have answers because Holmes raised Suri in a very protective way.
“Katie has protected Suri and she is a devoted mother,” a source previously told The New York Post. “This is a girl who is a private citizen. She didn’t live her life in public.”
Meanwhile, Holmes told Glamor magazine in 2023 that she likes to “shield” Suri from the public eye “because she was very visible at a young age.”
“I’m very grateful to be a father, to be her father. She is an incredible person. She is 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 has concerns about Suri.
She thinks Tom has been waiting until now to sink his misguided claws into the young woman.
“I’m sure his master plan is to wait until Suri is 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 ex-wife Nicole Kidman, is clearly not a reliable source when it comes to his views on fatherhood.
“All my life I’ve wanted to be a father,” he told Vanity Fair in 2006, adding at the time:
“I always told myself that my children could depend on me and that I would always be there for them and love them.”