Re: Tom Cruise has time for Scientology, but no time for his daughter or his now dead
Here's what I don't understand. Before TC's latest film, the media was about how he, 'saw the error of his ways,'which almost certainly was a PR curve ball as he tightly controls his image.
In other words, there was no denial about the reports of him speaking to Suri and how he had a, 'realisation' that she was growing up and he wasn't a part of that.
Whether Cruise sees Suri regularly but in secret, we don't know. Whether he doesn't see her for stretches of a year or more and why, we don't know.
However, when the stories about him leaving Scientology because he wanted to spend more time with Suri started to surface -- conflating those two stories -- at first I didn't see an apparent reason why Cruise's PR people (or people promoting his current movie) would start such a rumor when it was suggested by Tony that they could be the source.
UNLESS, perhaps Cruise's PR people would like to sow a crop of various stories such that it becomes confusing to the point where the public never believes any story about Tom Cruise, including the true stories? The bulk of the public won't know or believe that Katie left partly to protect Suri from Scientology; that the cult arranged dates for him; that slave laborers from the Sea Org worked on his aircraft hanger, manage his estates, or tricked out his SUV.
They won't know if he's in the cult or out of the cult, because Cruise himself stopped shilling for the cult in public (I don't mean private Scientology events) and does not want to make the PR mistake of trying to push Scientology when he is supposed to be promoting his movie, as he did with War of the Worlds. So Tom's PR people would like everything about him that isn't so wonderful to be a confusing blur. And journalists aren't allowed to ask him questions about it either.
They want to make the stories about his personal life so confusing and contradictory that the public won't believe any of it and instead see Cruise as a victim of malicious and arbitrary gossip on the Internet and by the press, and that he really is an upstanding guy, a heroic figure, just like many of the roles he plays in movies. That's what will sell movies, not people finding out what a creep he is, or how committed to Scientology he is.
They don't want the public to even think about the contradiction of Cruise claiming that Scientologists are the only ones with all the answers, as he did in his video, and Scientology offering courses and answers on marriage repair, and yet Cruise could not keep Katie Holmes or his own daughter. Nor do they want the public to believe that the story about him dating Nazanin, and then having her sent to Flag for punishment could possibly be true.
A lot of people, including even fans of Tom Cruise, do not have the time or the inclination to delve into all the stories about him, trying to separate truth from fiction, so they'll believe want they want to believe about Tom -- that he is a wonderful, delightful guy, and the ultimate movie star.
By claiming that Tom is leaving Scientology, Tom's PR people could hope to also capture some of his fan base who won't even bother following up on the story to find out that Tom hasn't left Scientology! Those fans will be like, "I trust Tom to know what's best."
As far as the stories about how often or infrequently he sees Suri, that is personal. It would be fascinating to know what's going on there, especially if it happens that he is seeing her only once in a blue moon. Is it because he regards her as a PTS? Is she not his biological child? Is it that Suri doesn't really care about seeing him all that much? (Sometimes the children of stars bond more closely with their caretakers than their parents, if the parents are busy and not around much.) Until Katie or Suri (when she grows up) writes a tell-all book we'll probably not know what's going on there.
What if it happens that Tom Cruise is kind of nutty, an egotistical, overly controlling jerk in his personal life -- "I will call you 'Kate' because 'Katie' is a child's name -- and things like that don't help his image and selling movies at all. That's the kind of thing Tom's PR people will try to control.
The extent to which stars will try to protect their reputations or conceal unflattering truths about themselves is commonplace. Still, it would be nice to hear Tom Cruise come out one day and say, "Maybe Scientology doesn't have all the answers after all."