In my last blog, I was talking about Tom Cruise’s many exes. Yesterday, we learned that Katie Holmes will soon join that exclusive club as she filed for divorce.
While Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman and dating Penelope Cruz, Holmes was busy dating actor Chris Klein. The two became engaged, but broke up in 2005. That same year, Holmes began dating Cruise.
Now, I don’t know how they met, but Star Magazine reported that Cruise’s agent called Holmes publicist for a meeting between the two. How romantic is that? Just pluck your next young wife out of the phone book. The story goes on that after a meeting in the agent’s office, Cruise asked Holmes out and the next thing you know, he’s manically jumping on the couch in front of Oprah, proclaiming his love for Holmes.
To add a bit of creepiness to the whole thing (at least for me), Holmes told Seventeen that she grew up wanting to marry Cruise.
The two quickly became a couple and Holmes, who was raised a Roman Catholic like Kidman, began doing whatever it is you have to do to join Scientology. In June 2005, Cruise proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower and they were married in November 2006, but, not before producing cute little daughter Suri in April 2006.
But to me, the relationship just seemed to be a put on. I thought Holmes had an adorable, girl-next-doorness about her before Cruise, but after she started dating him, she seemed to lose that as she dropped weight and generally began look more and more unhappy.
No one knows what caused the split and given Cruise’s secrecy in the past, we may never know, but this week, Holmes filed for divorce. Cruise is said to be devastated. Just last month, he told Playboy in an interview, “I like doing things like creating romantic dinners, and she enjoys that. … I’m just happy, and I have been since the moment I met her. What we have is very special.”
Cruise’s attorney released a statement which said, “Tom is very sad about it and is concentrating on the kids,” while Holmes attorney issued a separate statement which read, “This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family. Katie’s primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest.”