Penelope Cruz Allegedly Broke up With Tom Cruise Over Nicole Kidman – SheKnows

The yr is 2004 — Pals is airing its remaining season, mini skirts are all the trend and an iconic celeb couple are winding down a whirlwind romance all due to some ex drama (allegedly). Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz’s virtually three yr relationship ended amicably on the floor however sources behind the scenes claimed there was extra to the story.

Cruise and Cruz, maintain the jokes, first met in 2000 whereas starring reverse one another in Vanilla Sky whereas the previous was nonetheless married to Nicole Kidman. Although the wedding was over by the point manufacturing ended, Cruz and Cruise have at all times insisted that nothing occurred till filming was finished. “I’ve by no means fallen in love with somebody I’m working with. It’s at all times been afterwards,” Cruz advised The Telegraph in 2008.

Cruise, now 61, filed for divorce from Kidman in February 2001, simply shy of their 10 yr wedding ceremony anniversary. Six months later, he was reported to be relationship Cruz. In July of that yr, Cruise’s longtime publicist Pat Kingsley advised reporters, “Tom Cruise invited Penelope Cruz to his thirty ninth party on July 6 and so they’ve had a number of dates since.” Cruz, now 49, was 27 after they began relationship.

The couple have been comparatively coy about their relationship throughout its run other than some public appearances and one 2003 interview Cruise did with Marie Claire about stunning Cruz with “various things.” He mentioned, “She’ll come residence, and I’ll have her favourite sort of meals made, have a shower drawn. I like doing stuff like that. She likes my meals, so I prepare dinner for her. It’s at all times the little issues I like in a relationship.”

Finally, the connection ran its course and sources alleged a sure ex of Cruise’s was partially in charge. In March 2004, Cruz’s reps revealed the cut up to Individuals, insisting it was “amicable” and famous “there isn’t a different particular person concerned.” A supply advised the journal, “The connection simply ran its course and so they determined to not be girlfriend and boyfriend anymore. By means of a lot of the relationship they have been each capturing motion pictures in separate components of the world.”

Sources claimed Penélope Cruz as soon as caught Tom Cruise on the telephone to Nicole Kidman.

The Night Customary alleged that Cruz grew weary of Kidman’s continued friendship with the Mission: Unimaginable star with whom she shares two adopted kids. The outlet additionally alleged that Cruz had found that her boyfriend had a late-night emotional dialog together with his ex whereas she was out of city filming.

Different sources claimed Cruz and Cruise broke up due to Scientology.

Regardless of the rumors, on the time of their cut up Cruz’s rep insisted that Scientology had nothing to do with the break up saying Cruz is “not a Scientologist, however she has taken (church) programs and he or she’s discovered them helpful.” In a 2006 interview with The Guardian, Cruz truly defended the controversial church even after her cut up from Cruise, Scientology’s most well-known member. “I’d really feel unhealthy with myself if I didn’t say that I used to be grateful to [Scientology] due to what I’ve realized about it,” she defined.

In the identical interview, she spoke extremely of Cruise. “Tom is an excellent man, and I’m near his entire household, his kids. I really like his kids, and his mother, and all of his household, and he’s an excellent man.” Nonetheless, in a 2012 Vainness Truthful exposé, it was claimed that Cruz “ran afoul of [church leader David Miscavige]” as a result of she was unwilling to “forsake her Buddhist beliefs.”

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