Inside Tom Cruise's Relationship With Kids Isabella, Connor and Suri - E! Online (2024)

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Tom Cruise is known for a lot of things, but gabbing about his kids isn't one of them.

Naturally thathas something to do with the fact thatson Connor Cruiseand daughter Isabella Cruisewith ex-wife Nicole Kidman, as well as daughter Suri Cruisewith ex-wife Katie Holmes, areleading relatively private lives outside of show business—though they can't help beingfamous-by-association thanks to their movie star parents.

Butyou can't deny Tom's enigmatic ways, theMission: Impossiblestar being so impressively out there—jumping off cliffs, riding motorcycles, sending his friends coconut cake every year—and yet increasingly private.

Though he rhapsodized about fatherhood whenall of his children were little, hisinclination to share exponentially decreased asthe spotlightgrew ever brighter (and he notched his third divorce in 2012).

So, any rare sighting of him spending time in public with his now grown children tends to be an event.

It was the first time the 61-year-old actorhad been seen with ConnorandIsabella at a public event since a 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy game (thethree were informally snapped by paparazzi with Suri in Central Park in 2010), though public outings with his son have been a bit more frequent.

As for hisyoungest child,how much time Tom spends with now-18-year-old Suri has been a subject of speculationever since he and Katie divorced in 2012 after less than six years of marriage.

"My whole life I always wanted to be a father," Tom told Vanity Fairfor the October 2006 cover story that introduced Suri to the world at 3 months old. "I always said to myself that my children would be able to depend on me and I would always be there for them and love them—that I'd never make a promise to my kids that I couldn't keep. I'm not one of those people who believe you can spoil a child with too much love. You can never give a child too much love. There's just no way."

While they were together,he and Katie were frequently spotted out with their daughter, and there are countless pap pics of them trying to get from a car into a building and back again to prove it.

But they didn't let the ever-present photographers stop them from living their life:The family went to amusem*nt parks, attended Galaxy games (they were Beverly Hills neighbors with Davidand Victoria Beckhamwhen the English football star crossed the pond to givesoccera shot in the arm in 2007) and were at the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami Gardens along with then-15-year-old Connor.

But Suri was 6 when Tom and Katie split up.She's lived with her mom in New York for years, while her dad is based in Florida these days when notglobetrotting for work—which he so often is.

But, he added, "with certain ones you have to go, 'OK, you crossed a line, and now you have the attention of my lawyers.'When it involves your kids, with these guys you have to go, 'Here's the line, and anytime you cross it…' But there are lots of times when you just have to say, 'Please don't cross that line. Be decent. Let's not do this.'"

And he did pushback against what he viewed to be an egregious take, filing a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Bauer Media'sIn Touch andLife & Styleforreporting in 2012 thathe had "abandoned" Suri.

Sitting down for a deposition in the caseon Sept. 9, 2013, Tom acknowledgednot seeing his child for at least 100 days while filming the action thriller Edge of Tomorrow in London, but denied ever being out of touch.

"You have to work at it," he said, sharing that he called her every day, per court documents obtained by E! News. "I've gotten very good at it. I tell wonderful stories. I also find that, you know, Suri is a very happy child, and confident, and has a good sense of herself."

Tom continued, "Things change and there's different agreements, like in any divorce, where you work out a schedule. It's just a different set of circ*mstances. It certainly does not mean that I've abandoned my daughter."

The lawsuit was settledthat Decemberand dismissed with prejudice, meaning it couldn't be refiled. A spokeswoman for both publications said it was never their intent"to communicate that Tom Cruise had cut off all ties and abandoned his daughter, Suri, and regret if anyone drew that inference from anything they published."

And so began the next era of Tom Cruise, silent movie star (so to speak). In work-centric interviewsand on the red carpet, he's as charming as ever, but his kids fall into the no-ask zone.

Yet as any person with or without social media knows:Just because it isn't in a photo for the world to see, that doesn't mean it isn't happening. Keep reading for all the details on Tom's family: