Actress and TV host Jenny McCarthy says Katie Holmes appeared “like a deer in headlights” during her marriage to Tom Cruise, according to comments Ms. McCarthy made on her podcast this week.
Ms. McCarthy discussed attending the couple’s 2006 wedding in Italy, where she said she was a guest with her then-partner, actor Jim Carrey, on the Thursday episode of “The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show,” Entertainment Weekly reported. Her guest was Anne Gollert Hill, who left Scientology after 20 years in the church.
Ms. McCarthy said the contrast between Ms. Holmes and Mr. Cruise’s world was stark. She said she believed Mr. Cruise was trying to bring her into Scientology when he introduced her to church leader David Miscavige at the rehearsal dinner. She said she responded with what she called a “passive aggressive but still kind” approach, and thought that if she had to work under or around Mr. Cruise, she didn’t know if she’d “be able to survive.”
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After the wedding, Ms. McCarthy said, Ms. Holmes and Mr. Cruise attended “a few parties” at her home. She claimed she would pull Ms. Holmes aside to ask whether she was OK.
“At that time, she looked like a deer in headlights,” Ms. McCarthy alleged, saying that was well into the marriage. She said Holmes still seemed like herself ahead of the wedding, but that “there was a shift in her” as the relationship went on.
Ms. McCarthy also said her own interactions with Mr. Cruise have always been positive, calling him a “very nice human being” but “very programmed.”
Ms. Holmes and Mr. Cruise divorced in 2012. Their daughter, Suri, 20, now uses the surname Noelle. People reported in July that she has legally dropped Cruise, citing Pennsylvania voter registration records from October 2024. Entertainment Weekly also cited voter registration records in reporting the change and said she has not been publicly seen with her father since the split.
Mr. Cruise has been doing a series of rare press appearances to promote his new film, “Digger.” He has not been asked about Scientology in those interviews.
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