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LOS ANGELES. – Katie and Tom Cruise wed in November 2006. But after five and-a-half years of marriage, she filed for divorce in June 2012 because of the controversial Scientology religion and its impact on her daughter Suri.
And Suri, now 20, appears to have made up her own mind about her dad, dropping his surname in favour of her mum’s middle name, Noelle.
The move emerged after she publicly registered to vote in Pennsylvania, where she studies under the alternative name. It is also reported she has been estranged from Tom, 64, since she was ten, while remaining close to Katie, 47, who is no longer a Scientologist.
Journalist Tony Ortega, who has investigated the workings of Scientology for three decades, said of the family breakdown: “When Katie split with Tom, any normal Scientologist would be told she is an SP, a suppressive person — an enemy of the church.
“And Suri, being connected to Katie, would be considered a PTS — potential trouble source.
“Tom would be expected to disconnect from them and not have anything to do with them.”
The church says: “A suppressive person (SP) is a person who seeks to suppress other people in their vicinity. A suppressive person will goof up or vilify any effort to help anybody and particularly knife with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or more intelligent.
“The suppressive person is also known as the antisocial personality.
“Within this category one finds Napoleon, Hitler, the unrepentant killer and the drug lord.”
Tom does seem to be in contact with his two other children, Isabella “Bella” Cruise, 33, and Conor Cruise, 31, who are both Scientologists. – Sun Club
Mathew Masinge