On April 17, Tom Cruise was all smiles while walking the streets of London (seen above), suggesting Suri Cruise’s milestone birthday wasn’t on his mind. Tom is in the U.K. capital filming the eighth “Mission: Impossible” movie and is expected to be there all week, according to the Daily Mail. The timeline indicates he won’t be flying to New York to celebrate with his daughter. But Suri seemed to be having a great time regardless of her father’s absence.
On the eve of her birthday, she was spotted strolling through New York with friends while carrying gifts, Hello! reported. Suri may have made her peace with the fact Tom won’t be there, but that reportedly wasn’t always the case. In earlier years, Suri still held hope he would come around. “Like any little girl, her greatest wish is for her father to be there, and now she’s been disappointed again,” a source told Star when she turned 12 in 2018 (via YourTango).
However, other sources have said Tom talks to Suri on her birthdays. “Suri gets a gift from Tom on her birthday every year and this year was no exception,” an insider told HollywoodLife in 2018. The following year, he intended to do the same, a source told HollywoodLife. It’s unclear whether he did or didn’t, but Tom reportedly struggles with the estrangement. “As challenging as things have become for him and his daughter, he still loves her,” the insider said.
