Tom Cruise Once Hinted Why He’s Estranged From His Daughter Suri

The intricacies surrounding Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ divorce remain a mystery to this day, but rampant speculation has repeatedly suggested that it had something to do with Cruise’s deep ties with Scientology. Knowing that she couldn’t escape the shackles of religion if she were to approach the split the conventional way, the “Dawson’s Creek” alum reportedly decided to blindside her ex-husband with divorce filings instead and go off the grid with Suri.

Interestingly, this isn’t something Cruise has explicitly denied. During his deposition in his $50 million libel suit against a media outfit that alleged he abandoned Suri, he was pressed on whether Holmes left him “in part to protect Suri from Scientology” (via HuffPost). The “Top Gun” star was backed into a corner then, so he had no choice but to respond: “Did she say that? That was one of the assertions, yes.” However, he countered by asserting, “There is no need to protect my daughter from my religion,” rendering the point essentially moot.