After Brad Pitt, it’s Tom Cruise’s turn to see his relationship with his daughter deteriorate. According to Page SixSuri, the actor’s and Katie Holmes’ daughter, officially dropped the name Cruise to adopt Noelle, her mother’s middle name.
Now aged 20, the young woman studies music and theater at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. It was when she registered to vote that she used her new official name, Suri Noelle, for the first time.
According to the American media, this change would allow him to lead a more discreet life, far from his father’s notoriety. A relative says that this new identity gave her a real new start in her adopted city, where she has already participated in several musicals.
Relations between Tom Cruise and his daughter have been very distant since the divorce of the actor and Katie Holmes in 2012. The actress then obtained sole custody of Suri. If father and daughter would have still maintained telephone contact at the beginning, these would have gradually become rarer, until they became almost non-existent.
Because of Scientology?
In Hollywood, many attribute this breakup to Tom Cruise’s membership in the Church of Scientology, an issue which is said to have largely contributed to his divorce from Katie Holmes. Suri is the youngest of the actor’s three children. From his previous marriage to Nicole Kidman, he adopted Isabella Jane (33) and Connor Anthony (31), who grew up primarily with their father after the couple separated.
Both are also members of Scientology. According to several American media, neither Isabella nor Connor would have invited Nicole Kidman to their respective weddings, a sign of the deep family divisions which still surround the famous religious organization today.
