Katie Holmes Tells Tom Cruise, Get off My Ass
Mar 17, 2007, 10:23
"Do you have to go to the bathroom, Kate?"
HOLLYWOOD - Katie Holmes has had it up to her cleavage with Tom Cruise' round-the-clock surveillance, strip searches, and smothering presence. Cracking under pressure that would have sent a normal person reaching for a semi-automatic long ago, Ms. Holmes, 28, told the smirking little control freak to "get off my ass."
The watched pot boiled over last weekend when Ms. Holmes decided to take in a basketball game at Beverly Hills High School, where Mr. Cruise' adopted son, Connor, is a member of the team. As Mr. Cruise, 44, was busy at the Scientology Centre in Hollywood that night, proctoring sensory depravation training for a class of new recruits, Ms. Holmes decided to attend the game with daughter Suri, her nanny, several personal attendants, and three or four of Mr. Cruise' relatives.
Thinking she might enjoy some quality time alone, Ms. Holmes removed Suri's baby-minder bracelet before she left the house. Unfortunately, in her joy at going somewhere by herself, Ms. Holmes forgot to remove her own minder bracelet; and before she had been driven ten feet by her Scientology-appointed chauffeur, she was busted. When she arrived at the gymnasium, there was Top Gun, waiting for her with that insufferable smirk on his face.
"Hi, honey," said Top Gun cheerfully. "Did somebody forget to file her flight plan?"
"Why don't you get off my ass?" retorted Ms. Holmes, brushing past him and heading for the entrance to the gym.
According to an eyewitness at the game, "Tom and Katie couldn't have looked more unhappy."
Following the game, Tom Cruise took his son's ball and went home.
Ms. Holmes frowned the entire evening and clung to Suri as though for protection, while Top Gun stared into space, visions of microchips dancing in his head. After the game, the couple went home in separate, large black SUVs.
One of the few friends with whom Ms. Holmes remains in contact, told THEM Weekly that "Katie has been depressed" ever since she learned Top Gun was planning to follow her to Shreveport, Louisiana, where Ms. Holmes begins filming Mad Money next month. Top Gun informed the film's producers that he plans to be on set every day.
THEM Weekly also learned that Ms. Holmes became enraged when Mr. Cruise forbade her to appear in Victoria Beckham's new reality show, The Spice of Life.
"Katie was looking forward to having a laugh playing Posh Spice's BFF on the show," said Ms. Holmes' friend. "She wanted to let the world see her as an independent wife and mother."
Top Gun saw her instead as Ethel Mertz to Ms. Beckham's Lucy Ricardo.
"You just don't want to be Fred, you dwarf," said Ms. Holmes.
In related news, Katie Holmes threw a fit during a compulsory E-meter session this week, ripping the jumper cables off her nipples and stalking out of a reprogramming chamber in the basement of the Scientology Centre, causing alarms to go off throughout the building.
