Seeing her dad in a clinch with his co-star is yet another twist in a bizarre childhood.
Little Suri Cruise looked on wide-eyed and confused last week as her father Tom embraced his on-screen love interest, Cameron Diaz, on the Spanish set of his film Knight & Day.
Although being around a movie set is quite normal for this three-year-old, Suri looked puzzled and upset by what she was seeing. Mum Katie Holmes belatedly rushed in to scoop her up and remove her from the scene.
Child psychologist Philip Gosschalk says that at her age, Suri may be unsure about what is real and what is make believe.
“She can be expected to be confused about why her father is embracing another female in such an intimate way,” he says.
However, watching her parents go to work is just another facet of the defiantly adult way that Tom and Katie are raising their daughter.
With Scientology fostering the notion that children should have “self-determination”, Tom lets Suri make her own rules. She eats what she wants – including drinking from baby bottles – and stays up as late as she pleases.
Unsurprisingly, this has made her moody, sullen and sleepy during the day. “Suri seems to be tired a lot of the time and has a lot of tantrums, but it’s not her fault,” says one on-set catering worker. “The Cruises are not what you would call a typical family.”
Little Suri at times appears abnormally shy in social situations and suffers from attention issues that have her mother worried about her development, say sources close to the Cruise family.
“She finds it hard to integrate and engage in even the most simple of social situations,” a family insider says. “But this could just be borne of minimal contact with children her own age, or her bizarre lifestyle.”
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