Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes used to be Hollywood’s most famous A-list “star” couple, but their sudden announcement of divorce and the completion of all procedures in just 10 days shocked fans.
Katie Holmes was 27 years old when she dated 43-year-old actor Tom Cruise in April 2005. The beautiful actress is a Catholic and Tom Cruise is an active member of the mysterious Scientology cult. Katie Holmes began studying Scientology after she dated the Mission Impossible actor.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attended the pre-wedding event (Video: The Mega Agency).
After Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes dated, they became the media’s favorite “star” couple. All information about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has been thoroughly exploited and Tom Cruise revealed that he offered to meet Katie Holmes under the guise of inviting her to audition for the new part of the movie Mission Impossible . Tom Cruise made this proposal after Katie Holmes gave an interview to Seventeen magazine in 2004 and she revealed that as a little girl, she dreamed of one day marrying Tom Cruise.
The romance of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is stalked by the paparazzi on a daily basis and Tom Cruise also makes no secret of his boundless love for Holmes. The actor once shocked when he jumped on the chair on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show in 2006 to describe his love for Katie Holmes. At that time, the audience who loved the actor even thought that he had lost his usual elegant image.
Within eight weeks of meeting, TomKat was quickly engaged and four months later, the famous couple announced that they were expecting a baby. Their daughter, Suri, was born in April 2006.
In November 2006, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes married in a 15th-century castle in Italy. The couple’s lavish wedding was attended by a cult “star” cast and six years later, Holmes surprised the newspapers and fans when he filed for divorce from her husband in 2012.
The famous couple’s breakup is one of the fastest resolved divorces in Hollywood when all procedures were completed within just 10 days, although a source close to Tom Cruise confirmed that the actor was completely surprised and unprepared when his young wife filed for divorce. The press then reported: “Katie wanted to get out of this marriage quickly. She agreed to the terms and received 114 billion dong in child support, plus 117 billion dong for herself.”
According to the press, the fact that Katie Holmes has a lawyer father has helped her a lot in resolving divorce proceedings. The TMZ site reported that the very tight marriage contract signed before the wedding prevented the couple from falling into a fight for money and property.
The most important crux in settling the divorce was the fact that Tom Cruise wanted to maintain a meaningful relationship with his daughter Suri while Katie Holmes claimed sole legal custody and primary physical custody. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter it’s a clear sign that Katie Holmes won’t let the Scientology cult separate her from her daughter.
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are beautiful on the red carpet (Video: Getty Images).
Before that, when Tom Cruise and second wife Nicole Kidman divorced, Nicole was given joint custody of the children with her ex-husband. The famous actress was allowed to meet with their two adopted children, who are also members of the Scientology cult.
However, shortly after Kidman and Cruise broke up, their adopted children, Isabella and Connor, began to distance themselves from their mother and then gradually, Nicole and the children lost contact completely. Knowing this, Katie Holmes is determined to prevent that from happening to Suri no matter what.
The relationship between little Suri Cruise and her mother Katie Holmes became stronger after Suri’s parents divorced. The Vanity Fair reported that Marty Holmes, Katie’s father, always wanted to loosen his daughter’s relationship with the Scientology cult before Katie gave birth. Then, in 2009, Katie Holmes sent her daughter to a Catholic preschool, completely against the rules of the Scientology sect.
According to the Huff Post, after the divorce, Tom Cruise confirmed that Suri is no longer a member of the Scientology cult. Screenwriter Paul Haggis has publicly criticized the Scientology cult for asking its members to “disconnect” from people who are not members of Scientology, including relatives. “Although it caused terrible pain to my wife, she cut all contact with her parents,” Paul Haggis told The New Yorker.
Tom Cruise’s relationship with his daughter Suri seems to have completely broken in recent years. According to TMZ, Tom Cruise pays nearly 800 million VND in child support each month, but the last time Tom appeared publicly with his daughter Suri was in 2013, a year after he and Katie divorced.
Tony Ortega, a well-known journalist, speculated that Katie signed an agreement with the Scientology cult and the actress agreed to never say anything against the cult in exchange for her daughter.
After Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes broke up, Katie switched to dating actor and singer Jamie Foxx and she kept her relationship a secret for many years. Radar Online reported that Katie’s keeping the affair a secret was also due to her divorce settlement with Tom Cruise that Katie Holmes did not publicly date anyone for 5 years after breaking up with her husband.
“Katie signed a clause in her expedited divorce agreement that prevented her from ‘humiliating’ Tom. The agreements included Katie not talking about Tom, not commenting on Scientology and not publicly dating another man for five years after the divorce.
Katie Holmes is allowed to date but can’t be in public and she’s not allowed to let any boyfriends get close to her daughter Suri. The divorce agreement is also rumored to include a rule that Suri will not come into contact with her father’s religion.”
