55. He’s Not Easy To Work For
According to Remini, Cruise’s jovial energy was also incredibly volatile: he once berated his staff because they ruined his plans to bake cookies, saying, "'LRH [Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard] is here,' holding his hand over his head; 'Dave [Miscavige] and I are here,' placing his hand at chin level, and then with his hand down at his waist he said, 'you are here'."
Ouch, Tom, ouch.
56. His Best Friend’s Wife Went Missing
At the highly-publicized wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Leah Remini noticed that Shelly Miscavige, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was conspicuously missing from the ceremony—even though David was the best man. When she pressed about the subject, the Church of Scientology turned on her, and that’s when she began to have her doubts about the group.
Either way, Cruise remains the most powerful celebrity attached to the church—and Shelly Miscavige hasn’t been seen in a decade.
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57. He Was In For A Surprise
Tom Cruise may have shocked Nicole Kidman when he filed for divorce—but in 2012, he was the one who was blindsided. Almost six years after they were married, Holmes filed for divorce while Cruise was in Iceland shooting a new movie.
Holmes’s father, who is a lawyer, helped her with the divorce, making sure Holmes retained custody of her daughter Suri. Both parties tried to hide the details, but eventually, some made their way out…
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58. It Drove Them Apart
New York courts handled the divorce, and as a default, all documents remain sealed, so most of what is known about the divorce is speculation. However, one suspicious detail points to a concrete reason behind the split:
59. He Shamed Her
The Church of Scientology asserts that psychiatry is a pseudoscience and the prescription drugs that are used in treatment for mental illness are unnecessary. As a result, Cruise got into hot water in 2005 when he criticized actress Brooke Shields after she shared her experience of using anti-depressants to combat post-partum depression—but the story didn’t end there.
60. They Turned It Around
Shields shot back at Cruise, saying that he should "should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them". Subsequently, many were surprised to learn that Cruise actually approached Shields to personally apologize to her.
In many ways, it went completely out of his character.
61. He’s A Real Life Hero
Speaking of saving women…Tom Cruise is a hero off camera as well as on. In 1996, he accompanied a woman to the hospital after witnessing her getting hit by a car, and when he discovered she had no insurance, he paid her $7,000 hospital bill in full.
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62. It All Ends The Same Way
Tom Cruise has been married three times in his life—to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes—but there’s one strange detail that each of his marriages have in common. At the time of each divorce, each actress was 33 years old.
63. He Hasn’t Found Love Again
Following his divorce from Holmes, Cruise had mostly remained single. It does seem like the Scientologists tried to do their thing again. Tabloids briefly linked Cruise to fellow member Yolanda Pecoraro, who later became engaged to yet another church member. Cruise’s current loner lifestyle is a far cry from his rep as a playboy in the early 80s.
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64. He’s Got A Sense Of Humor
In August 2017, a Twitter user suggested that Tom Cruise wore a prosthetic butt in one of Valkyrie's scenes. The tweet went viral, but the actor denied the accusation and cheekily commented, "I do my own mooning".
65. He's Not In Her Life
In a story that's something of a sad mirror of Nicole Kidman's experience, Cruise has become less and less involved with his daughter Suri since his divorce from her mother, Katie Holmes.
Photographers last spotted them together at least six years ago. Many suspect that Cruise's children with Kidman have distanced themselves from her because she's no longer involved with Scientology. On the flip side, many speculate that Cruise doesn't spend time with Suri because her mother took her away from the church.
66. He Lost His Biggest Fan
No amount of fame can save you from devastating heartbreak, and Tom Cruise is proof. In 2017, his beloved mother Mary Lee passed on peacefully in her sleep.
Cruise had always been particularly close with his mother, clinging to her when his father bullied him. She’d also been incredibly supportive of his acting, even when he was a teen. She was 80 years old.
67. Tragedy Struck
Back in the early 90s, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were barely out of their honeymoon phase when she got pregnant—but they were in for a devastating shock. Kidman suffered from an ectopic pregnancy and lost the baby.
Heartbroken, they kept it a secret from the press, with Kidman only revealing what really happened after their divorce.
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68. They Were Listening
The tabloids often blamed Scientology for Kidman's divorce from Tom Cruise. Very little was known about the split’s awful details—until former Scientologists revealed that Cruise and the Church of Scientology had actually tapped Kidman's phone toward the end of their marriage without her knowledge.
69. He Kept Watch
When Katie Holmes was pregnant with her daughter Suri in late 2005, Tom Cruise was ecstatic—to a perhaps extreme degree. Cruise actually ordered his own personal sonogram machine, so he could watch their child in the womb every day.
For $200,000, that better have been some view.
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70. They Scared Her
In 2012, when news broke of Tom Cruise’s divorce from Katie Holmes, she immediately went into hiding. Many thought it was to hide from the media, but that wasn’t the case at all. Holmes tried to conceal her location because she was terrified of how the Church of Scientology would react to the news.
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