HOLDING hands with a young man and laughing with friends, Suri Cruise looks like any other 18-year-old student enjoying her prom. But there was no proud dad to send her off to the big night in New York because her movie star father Tom was thousands of miles away in London. It isn’t a matter of geography or work schedules, though, that seem to be keeping the Top Gun actor from witnessing his daughter’s milestones.
Insiders say the 61-year-old hasn’t seen Suri for 11 years, missed her 18th birthday in April and won’t be there when she leaves home for university. If that is true, the Hollywood actor will also likely not get to see her rumoured romance with budding musician Toby Cohen, the lad on her arm at LaGuardia High School’s leavers’ ball on Tuesday. The source of Tom’s reported heartbreaking estrangement is said to be his devotion to the Church of Scientology .
Karen De La Carriere — who used to be married to former president Heber Jentzsch — claims the organisation “wants only to break up families”. As soon as Suri’s actress mum Katie Holmes, 45, decided to divorce Tom in 2012, and to keep the couple’s only child from the secretive organisation’s iron grip, their relationship was at risk. By splitting from Tom, Scientology’s most high-profile follower, Katie was considered someone who needed keeping away from other followers.
Investigative journalist Tony Ortega, who has been delving into the workings of the church for 29 years, claims: “W.
