'I'm sure Tom's plan is to lure Suri into Scientology'. As Suri Cruise heads to university having not seen her dad in a decade, an ex-member of the controversial religion reveals her fears...

Suri Cruise, aliases Suri Noelle arsenic she prefers to beryllium known, is radiantly assured successful nan spotlight. As befits a postgraduate from New York’s LaGuardia ‘Fame School’ — whose alumni see Jennifer Aniston and Timothee Chalamet — being nan centre of attraction suits her well.

Suri, 18, positively bounced connected to nan shape astatine her graduation past period to lukewarm cheers from nan audience. She blew a theatrical buss earlier accepting her diploma.

Her mother Katie Holmes, 45, said: ‘My extremity has ever been to nurture her individuality. To make judge she’s 100 per cent herself, strong, assured and able.’

Since past Suri has been pictured smiling broadly, connected a day successful New York pinch her boyfriend, musician Toby Cohen. 

She’s being talked astir arsenic nan adjacent ‘It Girl’ successful nan metropolis — acknowledgment to her consciousness of style and family background, which is intriguing. There’s moreover talk of a Vogue mag cover.

Beautiful, celebrated and outgoing, Suri is simply a talented vocalist and vocals were her awesome astatine LaGuardia. Yet now she’s off. Leaving some New York and her mother’s protective embrace, she’s headed to Carnegie Mellon University successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to study fashion.

It is simply a measurement Katie intelligibly supports, having surrounded Suri pinch a ‘fashion family’ successful nan absence of a existent one. Indeed, Holmes herself is simply a big-hitter successful nan manner world, pinch a wide admired consciousness of style.

As each mother knows, however, it is besides astatine this constituent that a kid starts to leave their orbit and prosecute their ain life path, leaving immoderate to estimate connected nan anticipation of Suri coming nether nan power of nan man Katie has agelong tried to support astatine arm’s magnitude — her begetter Tom Cruise, 62.

Multiple sources bespeak that Suri has ‘no relationship’ pinch Cruise, and has had hardly immoderate interaction for astatine slightest a decade.

Though cipher connected either broadside will remark astir nan narration — rather perchance because that was portion of nan divorcement statement — astatine nan clip of nan divided it was clear that Holmes wanted to keep Suri distant from Scientology, nan belief activity Cruise has been portion of for almost 40 years.

Yet now Suri is 18, immoderate judge he mightiness effort a rapprochement. Actress Leah Remini, who defected from Scientology, thinks Holmes needs to watch out, saying: ‘I’m judge [Cruise’s] maestro scheme is to hold until Suri gets older truthful he tin lure her into Scientology and distant from her mother.’

Suri’s caller actions, however, show a compelling communicative of almost full paternal estrangement.

In March 2023, she was listed successful nan chorus of a schoolhouse accumulation arsenic ‘Suri Cruise’ — her commencement name. But 9 months later, she was going by ‘Suri Noelle’ — Noelle being Holmes’s mediate name. That was really she chose to beryllium credited for her starring domiciled arsenic Morticia successful a schoolhouse accumulation of The Addams Family, and upon graduating past month, it’s what she officially used, too.

It’s a sad repudiation, but nan magnitude of power Cruise should person complete his girl has agelong been nan taxable of a bitter tussle. And contempt each his wealthiness and power, Cruise has hitherto been wholly defeated connected it.

He admitted successful tribunal aft nan divorcement that a desire to support Suri retired of Scientology was 1 of nan factors which ended nan marriage. 

Holmes returned to nan Catholic religion of her younker aft their divided successful 2012, erstwhile Suri was six, and she has raised her girl firmly extracurricular of Cruise’s beliefs. An only child, Suri could person fallen prey to loneliness successful nan 12 years that person passed. As a toddler, she was doted connected by her dad, his sisters and her half-siblings Connor and Isabella — who Cruise shares pinch Nicole Kidman.

Yet a number of high-profile New York fashionistas person stepped into nan breach.

Among them are Holmes’s beloved friend, designer Zac Posen, her friend and stylist Brie Welch, and Scottish character Alan Cumming.

I’m told they are portion of a tight group that has been astir Katie and her girl since that bombshell divided from Cruise.

Crucially, nan group includes Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, who is simply a instrumentality of Holmes and has ever supported her.

Wintour’s workfellow Chioma Nnadi, nan caller caput of editorial contented for British Vogue, has been singing Holmes’s praises this month, too, describing her arsenic nan eventual ‘relatable’ manner influencer. She said: ‘Katie Holmes is nan female everyone watches erstwhile it comes to personage style.’

Nnadi has noticed that if nan Vogue website runs an point connected what shoes Holmes is wearing, postulation ‘goes crazy’. When Holmes wore a cashmere bra from New York-based explanation Khaite successful 2019, nan look went viral. The aforesaid happened erstwhile she wore a agelong tunic complete jeans successful 2022.

Holmes has conscionable released a postulation pinch French marque A.P.C., and Zac Posen was pinch her successful Paris erstwhile she took a travel to observe it, alongside Brie Welch and her mother Kathleen. In turn, Katie has raised Suri to beryllium a manner star. Might she do a mother-daughter sprout for Vogue? Nobody would stake against that.

Yet Suri was primitively destined for a life influenced not by nan latest styles, but by Cruise’s unconventional ‘faith’.

Baby Suri was calved successful a Scientology-ordered ‘silent birth’ successful 2006, meaning nary 1 wrong proceeding region of nan labouring mother was allowed to speak, and was introduced to nan world pinch a Vanity Fair screen communicative six months later.

Cruise said: ‘My full life I wanted to beryllium a father. I ever said to myself that my children would beryllium capable to dangle connected maine and I would beryllium location for them and emotion them — I’d ne'er make a committedness to my kids I couldn’t keep.’

Katie and Tom were joined successful Italy 7 months aft nan birth. It was a fabulously opulent matter but, contempt reports that location would beryllium immoderate Catholic element, it was wholly Scientologist. Conducted by David Miscavige, Cruise’s champion friend and caput of nan movement, it was choreographed for illustration a monolithic movie premiere, pinch much bodyguards than guests. The eventual goal, it seemed, was to nutrient nan fantastically romanticist images later released to nan media of nan A-list prima and his beautiful bride.

Yet almost from nan infinitesimal they returned from nan wedding, Katie looked unhappy. Gossip circulated that she wanted retired of nan marriage. Cruise’s determination to unrecorded successful a immense location successful Los Angeles pinch his sisters and their children apparently did not appeal. 

A bully woman from Ohio, Katie joined nan belief erstwhile she started making love Cruise — but its insistence connected having its subjects ‘E-metered for antagonistic thoughts’ seemed to frighten her. And she could spot Suri would person to spell done ‘auditing’ — a process of aggravated questioning to amended subjects’ ‘spiritual abilities’ — which Tom’s children pinch Kidman, Connor and Bella, were going through.

Effectively, Katie took to spending her clip successful Cruise’s New York flat alternatively than nan family location successful LA — while he travelled nan world, filming.

Aided by burner mobile phones, she secretly revenge for divorcement successful 2012 and hired a PR. It was ever said that her begetter Martin, an attorney, had advised her.

Cruise was taken by astonishment by nan filing while he was connected nan group of Oblivion successful Iceland successful June of that year. Her lawyer Jonathan Wolfe said: ‘This is simply a individual and backstage matter for Katie and her superior interest remains her daughter’s champion interest.’

In a deposition nan pursuing year, it became definitive what that meant. During a tribunal conflict complete mag reports which accused him of ‘abandoning’ Suri, he was asked whether his woman had near him ‘to protect Suri from Scientology’. Cruise replied: ‘Did she opportunity that? That was 1 of nan assertions, yes.’

Under nan position of nan divorcement Cruise, who has an estimated $600 cardinal (£469 million) fortune, agreed to salary Holmes $400,000 (£312,868) a twelvemonth until Suri turned 18, arsenic good arsenic early ‘medical, dental, insurance, education, assemblage and different extracurricular costs’.

In nan years that followed, some mother and girl kept a debased profile. Katie had an arms-length romance pinch character Jamie Foxx which ended successful 2019.

She volunteered to beryllium a schoolroom adjunct astatine Suri’s schoolhouse and made judge her girl made friends pinch nan ‘regular’ kids. Sources said Katie was ‘always very involved’ and that her girl seemed charming and bright, and ‘perhaps unusually adjacent to her mum’.

‘It’s important I’m coming and Suri has a stable, guiltless childhood,’ Katie said astatine nan time.

A root said: ‘Katie has safeguarded Suri and she’s a devoted mom. This is simply a woman who is simply a backstage citizen. She hasn’t lived her life successful public.’

Meanwhile, Suri’s early direction, shepherded by her attentive mother, was becoming clear. Aged only 15, she sang Blue Moon connected 1 of her mother’s films, Alone Together. Katie said: ‘She’s very, very talented. She said she would do it and she recorded it and I fto her do her thing.

‘That’s nan measurement I nonstop successful general: it’s like, “This is what I deliberation we each want — spell do your thing.” I ever want nan highest level of talent, truthful I asked her.’

During nan pandemic, mother and girl had a aureate clip successful their bubble. Katie said: ‘We were staying by a lake, truthful we astir apt watched Dirty Dancing 10 times. I danced to it successful nan surviving room, and it still holds up. It was fun.’ They besides watched together, for nan first time, Dawson’s Creek — nan show which made Holmes famous.

She told Glamour mag past year: ‘I’m very grateful to beryllium her parent. She’s an unthinkable person. She’s my heart.

‘She came retired very beardown — she’s ever been a beardown personality. You want them to enactment pinch you forever, but they’re these astonishing beings, and you person to do everything you tin to springiness them what they request — and past they’re going to go.’

And successful Suri’s case, spell very acold indeed, you suspect. The mobility is whether that travel will now see her begetter again.