“Enough,” Katie Holmes declared Sunday, in a rare, unprecedented response to yet another tabloid report about her, her daughter Suri, and Suri’s complicated relationship with her mega-star father, Tom Cruise.
In an Instragam post, Holmes took issue with a Daily Mail report, which alleged that her 18-year-old daughter, Suri, has become a millionaire after a trust fund, reportedly set up by her estranged father, has “kicked in.”
“Completely false,” Holmes wrote over a screenshot of the article in the U.K. tabloid, headlined, “Suri Cruise the millionaire! Tom Cruise’s trust fund has ‘kicked in’ and mom Katie Holmes has one for her too.”
“Daily Mail you can stop making stuff up,” Holmes added.
With her post, Holmes has finally, after many years, spoken out publicly in response to a gossip or news report about her and her daughter and her famous ex-husband.
Tom Cruise, with Katie Holmes and their daughter Suri, in 2007, after Holmes finished the New York City Marathon in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)
While Holmes is clearly disputing this specific report about a Cruise trust fund, it appears that the “Dawson’s Creek” alum also has gotten fed up with at least some of what the Daily Mail has been publishing about her, Suri and the “Top Gun” star.
The Daily Mail certainly likes to publish regular updates about Holmes and Suri, with its photographers following her and Suri around New York City, where they have lived since Holmes’ high-profile 2012 divorce from Cruise. The Daily Mail also is among the gossip and entertainment outlets that followed her to drop off new-freshman Suri at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, in August.
But the Daily Mail isn’t the only publication that has spent the past 12 years speculating on the reasons behind Holmes’ divorce from the 62-year-old “Mission: Impossible” actor, his long and evident estrangement from his once-beloved daughter, or Holmes’ raising Suri as a single parent.
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Over the years, Holmes’ family dynamics have been extensively analyzed in news and investigative reports, a court case, a best-selling book and an award-winning 2015 documentary, primarily because of the alleged role played in her marriage and divorce by Cruise’s beloved Church of Scientology. But Holmes has remained silent, perhaps because her divorce settlement prevents her from saying anything publicly about Cruise. Holmes also may realize that it would be exhausting to respond to the constant speculation.
The basic outline of reports about her divorce is that Holmes didn’t want Suri indoctrinated into the controversial, cult-like organization, so she left the marriage. Cruise soon faced accusations in another tabloid that he “abandoned” Suri because of Scientology’s rules about members disconnecting from non-believing family and friends, who are seen as “suppressive persons” and hostile to the organization.
In a 2013 deposition for a $50 million defamation suit that Cruise filed against that tabloid, In Touch, the actor vehemently denied he “abandoned” Suri. He took issue with the claim that he, a top celebrity member of Scientology, had chosen the church over his daughter “for good.”
“‘Abandoned by Daddy,’” Cruise said angrily in the deposition, referring to the headline of the story. “I mean, come on, that is absolutely disgusting. That is absolutely disgusting.”
But more than a decade later, another tabloid, The Sun, reported that Cruise had not seen his daughter in 11 years. However, The Sun also reported that Cruise provided for Suri financially. Under the terms of the divorce settlement, Holmes was granted sole custody, while Cruise was required to pay $400,000 a year to help with her upbringing.
This Sun report falls in line with other reports about Cruise’s estrangement from Suri and was prompted by Cruise missing a major milestone in Suri’s life: her graduation from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. Cruise instead was photographed that weekend attending one of Taylor Swift’s sold-out “Eras Tour” performances in London.
Cruise’s absence from Suri’s graduation made headlines. And then came more headlines about the 18-year-old dropping her father’s surname for the ceremony. She instead used the name “Suri Noelle.” At the time, sources told Page Six that the new name was a tribute to her mother, who raised her. Noelle is Katie Holmes’ middle name.
But, as in years past, Holmes kept publicly quiet about Cruise’s non-appearance at Suri’s graduation.
But something about the Daily Mail’s trust fund story finally drew a response, and people can speculate as to why. Perhaps it’s because of the suggestion that Suri has suddenly become “a rich teenager who can do anything she wants.” One person, responding to Holmes’ Instagram post, said this claim “puts a target on her back.”
The Daily Mail report also said that Suri had begun to access a trust fund established by Cruise when she turned 18 in April. It furthermore said that Holmes set up her own trust fund for her only child, quoting a source who said, “She wants her to be well provided for and have a great quality of life.”
Whatever Holmes’ reasons for finally speaking out and hitting back at the Daily Mail, she was inundated with praise and support in her Instagram feed.
“I’m so proud of you for calling them out. I love you to the moon!” actor Zoey Deutch wrote. Actor John McGinty also wrote, “We have your back.”
Another user said, “People need to stop saying ‘ignore them!’ In the comments. @katieholmes has a daughter who is not living as a public figure, who’s out in the world, and the daily mail has just painted a target on her back. How would you feel if that was your child?!”
