Katie Holmes on Daughter Suri Cruise, Who’s Leaving for College: “I Couldn’t Be More Proud of Her”

On the cover of Town&Country of September the image of Katie Holmes She still looks like the girl who was very popular when she was very young in the role of Joey Potter in Dawson’s Creekand yet the 46 year old American actress is now a mother of a girl, and is preparing for the first important date of her adult life: leaving for the college.

Suri Cruise, who turned 18 last April, decided to call herself Suri Noelle in homage to her mother, who raised her alone (Noelle is the actress’s middle name, (editor’s note)will study at Carnegie Mellon University of Pennsylvania, as she herself revealed on social media last June, when she and her high school classmates on TikTok starred in a funny video that portrayed them wearing the t-shirts and sweatshirts of their newly chosen university. “I’m proud of my daughter”Holmes said speaking with Town&Country«Of course, I will miss the closeness, but I am really proud of her and I am happy». For the girl it is an important moment, the actress knows it well: «I remember being at this age, at this time of beginnings. It’s exciting to learn about yourself and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think that way.”

When Suri leaves, Katie Holmes will find herself with an empty house for the first time, but she prefers to laugh about it: “My book club members are going to be annoyed,” she said, joking about the loneliness she might feel. “I’ll be like, ‘Let’s meet once a week.'” Suri is the actress’s only child, born in 2006 from her marriage to Tom Cruise. After their divorce in 2012, the actor cut off all contact with his daughter because of Scientology, a sect of which he is one of the most prominent members and which does not allow relationships with people who do not share the same “belief”, including children.

Today Suri doesn’t want to know anything about her father, or so they say. “If he called her, she wouldn’t want to hear it. She doesn’t want to rely on him,” an insider had told the Daily Mail last April, on the occasion of the girl’s eighteenth birthday, who appeared for the first time as Suri Noelle among the performers of a school play. Holmes, after all, is the parent who has had the most important role in her life. “I try to do my best and I take inspiration from the education my parents gave me and my brothers,” the actress had revealed some time ago, “Whatever I do is for her.” They will miss each other for sure, but it will be even better to be together again. Pennsylvania, then, is not that far from New York…