Why Tom Cruise’s abandonment of Suri for Scientology is even worse than most realize
We’re not going to tell you anything you haven’t already seen or heard over the last few days, about how Tom Cruise was trading friendship bracelets and dancing at Taylor Swift’s second sold-out night at Wembley Stadium in London Saturday, while he was missing what was going on back in New York, where his daughter Suri attended her high school prom this week with boyfriend musician Toby Cohen, and then graduated from La Guardia High School, which had her name listed as “Suri Noelle” in the graduation program.
That Tom Cruise is estranged from his daughter is an old tale, and one that we were happy to recount for a reporter from the Sun this weekend. But we were disappointed that the Sun left out perhaps the most important detail that we had given them. So we thought we’d repeat it here.
We know you’ve heard it from us before, but with so much attention on Tom and Suri right now, perhaps it’s a good time to remind people once again.
First, some basic facts that are good to keep in mind.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes revealed that they were dating in April 2005. A full year later, in April 2006, Suri was born. Tom and Katie were then married in November 2006 in a castle in Italy. That’s the scene where Leah Remini’s shock at seeing Scientology leader David Miscavige without his wife Shelly led to a confrontation that would eventually result in Leah leaving the church in 2013.
One thing that’s important to keep in mind is that by the time of that fancy wedding in 2006, Katie had become very involved in Scientology, as had Nicole Kidman before her (at least initially). Leah has said that Katie, like a good Scientologist, wrote her up for disrupting the wedding.
Another thing that’s important to remember about the six years that passed between Suri’s birth and Katie’s decision in 2012 to ditch Tom while he was on location filming in Iceland, is that during that time, Katie was around Tom’s older children, Isabella and Connor, who were being raised as Scientologists (and who remain Scientologists today).
While Katie’s interest in Scientology cooled over those years, she would have gotten a close-up look at the way children like Isabella and Connor were brought up in the church and in its snitching culture.
She also would have known that Suri’s indoctrination would have begun around the age of six.
So to us, it’s always made some sense that Katie planned her elaborate escape not only while Tom was out of the country, but also shortly after Suri had passed her sixth birthday.
It was Mike Rinder who explained to us a decade ago that the way Katie blew things up, causing a massive public relations disaster for Tom and the church, would have meant she was likely to have been declared a “suppressive person,” an enemy of the church. And that would have made Suri, who was attached to Katie, a “potential trouble source.” And if that was the case, if Tom were a regular Scientology member, he would have been asked by the church to “disconnect” from Katie the SP and to avoid his own daughter.
However, and this is really important, Mike pointed out that there was no confirmation, and probably never would be, that church leader David Miscavige had actually, formally, declared Katie SP and Suri PTS. Perhaps, out of some leniency for his best pal Tom, he might not have made it official, Mike pointed out.
Also, and this was even more important, even if Scientology had formally declared Katie to be an enemy, Tom Cruise is not a regular Scientology member. He’s a celebrity. And in fact, the most important Scientology celebrity of all time. And as a celebrity, Tom would have the ability to ignore those rules and continue to see both Katie and Suri if he wanted to.
But that’s not what happened. As the years passed after that 2012 split, it became more and more obvious that Tom had completely cut Katie and Suri out of his life.
So, here’s what we told the Sun and any other reporter who has asked us about this: If Tom Cruise, as Scientology’s most important celebrity, can ignore Scientology’s rules about suppressive persons, and potential trouble sources, and disconnection and continue to see his daughter, why doesn’t he?
Why has Tom Cruise so obviously chosen Scientology over his own daughter that he’s dancing for friendship bracelets at Wembley Stadium while Suri is going through one of the most important days of her life in New York?
The answer is, because Tom Cruise is convinced that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is the greatest human being who ever lived, and current church leader David Miscavige is the most important person on the planet today, and Hubbard’s “technology” is the only thing that will “save” this planet, something that is more important to Tom than preserving a relationship with his own daughter.
And also, he’s a huge piece of shit, but the media is always too afraid to say so.
Suri Noelle, we wish you the best of luck at Carnegie Mellon University.
We recommend you look into taking a course with a professor there named Dave Touretzky.
Sincerely,
Tony Ortega
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Congratulations to Katie… an unsung hero.
Katie saw the writing on the wall, saw the red flags, and did not ignore them. She saved herself and her daughter Suri a world of hurt and heartache.
“There’s L R Hubbard.
“There’s David Miscavige.
“And then there’s me.”
Yup. He’s “… a huge piece of shit.”