Tom Cruise has not seen his 8-year-old daughter Suri in more than year, essentially leaving his ex-wife Katie Holmes to raise the
child alone, according to an InTouch Weekly report published this week.
Cruise, whose upcoming "Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation" is in post-production, has continued to miss out on activities with Suri after promising to be involved in his daughter's life after he and Holmes divorced in 2012, the magazine reported.
"The long-distance father-daughter relationship has reached a critical point," an inside source said. "It's now been more than 540 days since Tom has seen Suri in person."
The source told the magazine that the situation has turned so sour that some are beginning to wonder if it is too late for Cruise to make a difference in his relationship with his daughter.
"Tom will be shocked by how grown-up [Suri's] become since he last saw her," another source close to Holmes told InTouch. "Suri has a mind of her own now. He's missed so much."
Some have began to question whether the Church of Scientology is playing a role in the actor's distance with his daughter in light of the recent HBO documentary "Going Clear: Scientology and the
Prison of Belief," Entertainment Tonight reported. The documentary interviewed former members of the church who have made claims of mental and physical abuse, threats, and blackmail by church officials.
"My understanding is that Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise don't even speak to each other," Piers Morgan told Entertainment Tonight. "And she, I believe, is very concerned about the effect of the Church of Scientology on Tom Cruise."
While Cruise has remained silence about the church and the documentary, fellow Scientologist and
actor John Travolta told the Tampa Bay Times on Monday that he has not seen the documentary and does not plan to see it.
"I don't really care to," the actor said. "I haven't experienced anything that the hearsay has (claimed), so why would I communicate something that wasn't true for me? It wouldn't make sense, nor would it for Tom (Cruise), I imagine."