Exploring Tom Cruise's Relationship with His Children Isabella, Connor and Suri
Tom Cruise is known for a lot of things, but gabbing about his kids isn't one of them.
Naturally, that has something to do with the fact that daughter Isabella Cruise, 31, and son Connor Cruise, 29, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, as well as daughter Suri Cruise, 18, with ex-wife Katie Holmes, are leading relatively private lives—though they can't help being famous-by-association thanks to their movie star parents.
You can't deny Tom's enigmatic ways. The Mission: Impossible star is impressively out there—jumping off cliffs, riding motorcycles, sending his friends coconut cake every year—and yet increasingly private.
Though he rhapsodized about fatherhood when all of his children were little, his inclination to share exponentially decreased as the spotlight grew ever brighter (and he notched his third divorce in 2012).
Any rare sighting of him spending time in public with his now-grown children tends to be an event.
Such was the case when Tom was snapped in a group pic that included Isabella and Connor at a Florida Panthers vs. Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game last December. It took months for the Internet to notice the photo on NFL Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks' Instagram.
"Wow, look who stopped by my office before our @tblightning game tonight! @tomcruise," the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker captioned the Dec. 27 post. "I was a little star struck but played it cool and He said he was too!"
It was the first time the actor had been seen with Connor and Isabella at a public event since a 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy game (the three were informally snapped by paparazzi with Suri in Central Park in 2010), though public outings with his son have been more frequent.
The speculation continues about how much time Tom spends with now-18-year-old Suri ever since he and Katie divorced in 2012 after less than six years of marriage.
"My whole life I always wanted to be a father," Tom told Vanity Fair for the October 2006 cover story that introduced Suri to the world at 3 months old. "I always said to myself that my children would be able to depend on me and I would always be there for them and love them—that I'd never make a promise to my kids that I couldn't keep. I'm not one of those people who believe you can spoil a child with too much love. You can never give a child too much love. There's just no way."
"You start your day thinking 'OK it’s not true - apologize,' but some people just won't stop...When it's about your kids you have to draw lines."
Sitting down for a deposition on Sept.9th ,2013,T om acknowledged not seeing Suri for over100 days while filming Edge Of Tomorrow ,but denied ever being out-of-touch"You have work on relationships" shared court documents revealing daily calls madeTom continued"Things change,different agreements arise during divorces where schedules get worked out.It doesn’t mean abandoning one's child"The lawsuit settled December dismissed meaning refiling wasn’t possible.Publications claimed no intent communicating abandonment/regretted inferred communicationSo began next era:work-centric interviews red carpets sans kid-talks,yet absence isn’t proof non-existence”(Originally published May19th ,2024@5a.m.PT )