We haven’t heard much from Tom Cruise lately … not that I’m complaining … but apparently Tommy’s been busy suing Life and Style magazine.
After Katie stitched together the sheets, climbed down the wall, scaled the fences and took a Greyhound cross-country with Suri, Tommy’s been kinda quiet; and, as some have said, kinda absentee in the father department. Mostly it was L&S that started the story and now Tom has decided that he’ll sue them for fifty million dollars.
Trouble is, when you sue, you need to give a deposition and when you give a deposition a lot of things come out. In the deposition Tommy Grrl ALLEGEDLY squirmed in his chair as the L&S lawyer repeatedly asked if Katie had escaped their marriage because of Scientology. Cruise stammered and cleared his throat and made it seem like the answer was No, but then the lawyer asked, “Katie Holmes left you in part to protect Suri from Scientology?”
Cruise answered: “Did she say that? That was one of the assertions, yes.”
And then Tommy said Suri wasn’t a member of Scientology; any more.
See, all those stories of secret cell phones and plots and plans and sheets sewn together and sleeping pills for the guards and guard dogs aren’t so far-fetched now, are they?
But, here’s some juicy stuff from the deposition:
On the L&S “Abandoned By Daddy” cover: “I mean, come on, that is absolutely disgusting. That is absolutely disgusting. And I have to tell you with everything … Listen, I am a public person, I absolutely understand. For me there is … I tolerate a tremendous amount and I’m very privileged to be able to have the life that I have, and I believe that. But there is a line that, that I draw for myself, and that’s it.”
Um, that’s gibberish, Tommy, and it won’t net you 50 mil. And still he doesn’t, he can’t, explain why he didn’t see Suri for over three months.
“Listen, when there is a divorce — if you look at this also in terms of Suri coming to me and certain agreements that you have, when a divorce occurs thing change. And it’s more complicated, as everyone know when that is, when that occurs, and there are certain agreements; now you have to ask for permission and organize schedules to make things happen. So it wasn’t — it’s not an ideal scene. It’s not an ideal situation.”
Wait. He ask to organize schedules. Oh, well, then carry on, don’t see your child because no couple with children who’ve ever divorced have had to organize schedules and visitation.
And then he says he parents Suri by telling “wonderful stories” over the phone, but resorts to gibberish and wordplay when asked if he thinks that counts as a ‘real visit:
“No, it doesn’t. As I said, I’ve gotten pretty good at communicating and I also find that, you know, Suri, you know, is a very happy child and confident and has a good sense of herself.”
And then he explains why he chose to skip a scheduled, SCHEDULED, visit with Suri to spend 24 hours at a CO$ event in October: “It was an important event. I felt it was important.”
Wow. So he didn’t see her, but talking to her on the phone counts? And he didn’t see her because he had an important CoS event — maybe the one where they all voted on who should be his new wife. ALLEGEDLY.
Still, he makes all sorts of excuses and not one makes sense. I don’t see a judge asking anyone to pay him 50 million for anything.
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