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The differences between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have not ceased since they divorced in 2012. The actors married in 2006 in a massive wedding held in Italy attended by the entire Hollywood star system. Just a few months before getting married, the couple welcomed their only daughter together, Suri, who will turn 18 on April 17. Precisely Suri is the reason for the latest news that have been published about the former couple.

Since she was little, Suri has always been a claim of style and fashion and it is no coincidence that her vocation is to become a designer. A source close to Katie Holmes told the Daily Mail exclusively that Suri is already sending some applications to study fashion design in New York, the city where she lives with her mother since separating from the actor. "Suri is applying in schools everywhere. Katie wants him to stay in New York so they can be around. She is very proud of her, but she is also extremely overprotective." A very important decision for her that she will take in the coming months and of which Tom Cruise will not be part since for a long time "he has not been present in the life of the girl". A few years ago Katie herself defined her daughter in an interview: "She is very strong, she has always had a great personality. I love her very much and my biggest goal has always been to educate her in her individuality. Make sure she is 100% her, strong, confident, capable and intelligent. She will pick a profession and work hard until she's really good at it."

The point of no return in the relationship between the Top Gun: Maverick performer and the Dawson Grows actress was Scientology. Katie Holmes was raised in Catholicism but when she began her relationship with Tom Cruise she immersed herself in Scientology and then left abruptly. The reason for her refusal to continue being part of this particular religion was Suri, from which she demanded custody in the divorce process to ensure that she would be away from the religion that Cruise professes.

Katie Holmes in a recent imageGTRES

Her then-husband's obsession with these beliefs and her interest in the Sea Organization, a branch of Scientology in which children are raised under military discipline, caused Katie to separate her little girl from this world. The actress feared losing contact with her daughter and that she would "disconnect" the mother-child relationship in favor of religious practices. In fact there is a policy called disconnection whereby members of Scientology have to cut ties with family members who do not have their faith. The repercussion of this religion grew by the incorporation of Tom Cruise among its ranks but it was founded in 1953 in New Jersey by L. Ron Hubbard.

Among its precepts is to divide its members into levels. To be promoted, you have to take seminars or undergo audits or interrogations that must be paid. In addition, only those who reach high levels get access to the documents written by the founder. The contributions of the followers of this faith depend on their economic position and the wealthiest are expected to donate more.

NICOLE KIDMAN

Before marrying Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise married Nicole Kidman in the '90s. The marriage broke up in 2001 and once again Scientology had a lot to do with the end of the relationship. Katie managed to get her daughter Suri not to follow the dictates of this religion but the children that Kidman adopted with the actor did. Connor Cruise and Isabella Jane Cruise live away from their mother because the actress decided not to continue her ex-husband's faith. "They are adults," he told Australia's Who magazine. "They are able to make their own decisions. She has freely chosen to be a Scientologist and as a mother my only obligation is to love you."

In the documentary Going Clear directed by Alex Gibney, it is explained that Nicole Kidman was never well regarded by the Scientology community. The Australian actress was considered a "potential source of problems" for having been raised in Catholicism and for having a psychologist father (one of the enemies of Scientology is psychiatry).

When Katie Holmes and the actor separated, it was reported that the actress had asked Nicoles Kidman for help with her divorce. However, in Nicole's interview with Who magazine, the Eyes Wide Shut star confirmed that this had not been the case: "I never spoke to her. I wish them well, but I haven't been involved in any of that," Nicole says.

The Couples of Katie Holmes

Although the relationship of the actress that has transcended the most is the one she had with Tom Cruise, she has also dated another important Hollywood actor such as Jamie Foxx. Their love lasted six years and, according to the American media, ended because Holmes got fed up with his infidelities. She also dated Italian chef Emilio Vitolo for a year and her last known partner is producer, composer and instrumentalist Bobby Wooten III, with whom she also ended her relationship at the end of last year.

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