Tom Cruise rushes out of London in his helicopter
Tom Cruise appeared in a hurry as he rushed into his helicopter to fly out of London on Monday.
While Tom, 62, continues filming another Mission: Impossible, his 18-year-old daughter Suri has been settling into her new dorm at Carnegie Mellon University.
Suri – who hasn’t seen her father for over 10 years – recently decided to drop her father’s last name when she graduated from high school.
The college student decided to take her mother Katie Holmes‘, 45, middle name Noelle, after years of no contact with her father.
Noelle is Dawson’s Creek star Katie’s middle name – showing Suri’s solidarity with her mother.
Tom Cruise, 62, appeared in a hurry as he rushed into his helicopter to fly out of London on Monday
Tom jumped into his helicopter and prepared to fly out of the helipad across the city
While Tom continues filming another Mission: Impossible, his 18-year-old daughter Suri has been settling into her new dorm at Carnegie Mellon University (pictured on Sunday)
Top Gun star Tom has not been seen out in public with his daughter for around a decade, and sources have previously claimed he has little involvement in her life – signalled further by Suri’s new moniker.
Tom’s only input to his daughter’s life has been financial and he hasn’t been seen with his daughter since 2013, after Katie quit both the marriage and the Church of Scientology – the religion to which Tom is so devoted.
According to their divorce settlement, Cruise agreed to pay Holmes $400,000 a year until Suri turned 18 and will continue to pay for her college fees as well.
Under the terms of their agreement, though he may be physically absent from his daughter’s life, he has and will continue to cover, ‘medical, dental, insurance, education, college and other extracurricular costs.’
But despite having little if any relationship with her dad, Suri is, according to sources, a happy and well-adjusted teen who has loved growing up in New York City.
Katie and Tom married in a Scientologist ceremony in Italy in 2006 when the Dawson’s Creek actress was 27 and the Mission Impossible star was 44.
However, during the six years they were married sources close to Katie suggested she felt increasingly intimidated by the church, in which Tom remains a powerful figure today.
When the couple split in 2012, it was reported that Katie had chosen to end the couple’s marriage over fears about raising her daughter as a Scientologist.
Suri – who hasn’t seen her father for over 10 years – recently decided to drop her father’s last name when she graduated from high school (Mum Katie, Tom and Suri pictured in 2006)
The college student decided to take her mother Katie Holmes’, 45, middle name Noelle, after years of no contact with her father (Suri and Katie pictured last week)
Top Gun star Tom has not been seen out in public with his daughter for around a decade, and sources have previously claimed he has little involvement in her life (pictured in 2010)
When the couple split in 2012, it was reported that Katie had chosen to end the couple’s marriage over fears about raising her daughter as a Scientologist
The last photo of the Top Gun actor out and about with his daughter was a trip to Disneyland in 2012, the year his divorce from Katie was finalised
The last photo of the Top Gun actor out and about with his daughter was a trip to Disneyland in 2012, the year his divorce from Katie was finalised.
That same year, the Hollywood titan was reported not to have seen his daughter for more than 100 days, between a holiday they took in August and Thanksgiving in November.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Suri is starting as a college freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, a private university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this month.
Her move-in day was on Sunday and she will begin classes on August 26, according to the school’s website.
And the child of Hollywood movie stars will have accommodations that are very different than what she is used to in New York City, DailyMail.com can report, as Suri will be sharing a dorm room with another female student.
‘Suri wants the full college experience so she is giving the dorm rooms a try and she will have a roommate,’ an insider told DailyMail.com. ‘She is excited for a new chapter in her life.’
Instead of mom Katie Homes’ three-bedroom high-rise luxury apartment, the teenager will be in a bare-bones dorm room.
