Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 16-year-old daughter Suri has already started applying for university with her mother’s help, but the teenager’s famous father will have nothing to do with helping her, because the actor “has no relationship” with his daughter.
A source close to Katie, 44, exclusively told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper that Suri, who turns 17 next month, ‘sent a few requests’ and is ‘tending’ to studied fashion at Fordham University in New York, a choice that would make his mother Katie happy.
Suri sends requests everywhere. “Katie wants her to stay in NYC so they can be close to each other,” the source said. “Katie is very proud of her, but she’s also very overprotective.”
While Katie is taking an active role in helping her daughter with college applications, Tom Cruise, 60, will not play a part in the process. having been estranged from his daughter since 2013, a year after he and Katie divorced.
At the time of their breakup, it was reported that Katie had decided to end the couple’s marriage out of fear of raising her daughter as a Scientologist, a religion Tom is incredibly devoted to.
His decision to abandon religion, as well as marriage, caused a major rift between the former spouses, which has seen Tom and Suri’s relationship grow further and further apart over the years.
“Suri doesn’t know her father anymore and hasn’t spent time with him in a decade,” the source said. “She won’t see her movies and he’s not a part of her life.”
However, the source notes that while Tom will not have a say in choosing Suri’s studios, she’ll pay her college tuition, according to the top-secret divorce settlement she signed with her ex.
According to her divorce papers, Tom agreed to pay Katie $400,000 a month until Suri turned 18.shared the inside information.
The documents also state that Tom has agreed to pay all of Suri’s expenses, including “medical, dental, insurance, tuition, college, and other extracurricular expenses.” Tom has always held his responsibility when it comes to financial obligations to Katie and Suri,” the source told the Daily Mail.
However, the Mission Impossible actor hasn’t maintained a presence in Suri’s life.
Source: Clarin
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