Katie Holmes slammed a claim that daughter Suri Cruise received a financial windfall from dad Tom Cruise thanks to a trust fund when she turned 18 on April 18.
The extremely private actress, 45, rarely comments about her only child, but took to Instagram on Sunday, December 8, to say the report was “completely false,” adding, “You can stop making stuff up.”
Katie wrote her comments over a December 5 report headlined, “Suri Cruise the millionaire! Tom Cruise’s trust fund has ‘kicked in’ and mom Katie Holmes has one for her too.” In the caption, the Miss Meadows star wrote, “Enough.”
Katie has rarely spoken about Suri over the years. She and Tom, 62, welcomed their daughter on April 18, 2006, after a year of dating. The former couple married seven months later on November 18, 2006, in a lavish Italian ceremony.
The Batman Begins actress filed for divorce in June 2012. Katie relocated to New York City, where she raised Suri. The teen graduated from the LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in June and is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In May, Suri didn’t use her dad’s surname on a casting sheet for her school’s theater production of Head Over Heels. Instead, she went by the name “Suri Noelle,” using Katie’s middle name.
“The truth is, for the last 11 years, Tom has chosen not to see Suri,” a source exclusively told In Touch in June after a beaming Katie attended Suri’s high school graduation while the Top Gun star was in London attending one of Taylor Swift‘s Eras tour concerts.
“He was trading friendship bracelets with superfans and dancing to ‘Shake It Off’ in a crowd filled with young ladies who were around his daughter’s age. This after skipping Suri’s graduation — it’s like he’s living a double life,” said the source.
The last time Tom and Suri were photographed together in public was in April 2013. He has remained close to his adopted children, Connor and Bella, from his marriage to ex-wife Nicole Kidman. Tom and Connor, 29, have been photographed together attending sporting events and on other public outings.
A source told In Touch in February that Tom was paying Katie a hefty $400,000 per year in child support, which came to an end when Suri turned 18.
The Jack Reacher star gushed about fatherhood to Vanity Fair after Suri’s birth in 2006.
“My whole life I always wanted to be a father,” Tom told the publication “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.”
Katie made rare comments about Suri heading off to college in an August Town & Country profile.
“I’m proud of my daughter. Of course, I will miss the close proximity, but I’m really proud of her and I’m happy,” she told the outlet.
“I remember being this age, this time of beginnings. It’s exciting to learn about yourself, and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think about it like that,” Katie continued.
The Ohio native joked about her life after becoming an empty nester, telling the publication, “The members of my book club are going to get annoyed hearing from me. I’ll be like, ‘Let’s meet once a week.’”