Tom Cruise gifts a pair of shoes every year amid estrangement from daughter Suri

Tom Cruise continues to point out his distinctive method of expressing appreciation, regardless of being separated from his youngest daughter Suri.

The 61-year-old Hollywood icon has saved up a touching custom with actress Dakota Fanning, gifting her a pair of sneakers yearly on her birthday.

throughout an look The Kelly Clarkson PresentDakota, now 30, opened up in regards to the considerate annual presents her former co-star offers her.

“We've recognized you because you had been actually little, so I really feel such as you've grown up proper in entrance of us.” Kelly, 42, make clear Dakota's journey from baby actor to Hollywood star.

Kelly reveals an attention-grabbing perception into Tom's birthday custom. “I discover it wonderful, yearly in your birthday, Tom Cruise nonetheless sends you a present,” He mentioned.

Dakota and Tom shared the display screen in Steven Spielberg's 2005 science-fiction thriller Struggle of the Worlds. Tom performed Ray Ferrier and Dakota performed his daughter Rachel. Recalling their time collectively, Dakota recalled her eleventh birthday on the set, when Tom gifted her her first cellphone, a Motorola Razr.

“I needed the razor a lot, and I will need to have been speaking about it so much as a result of that's what he gave me,” Dakota recalled. “It's a very good reminiscence.”

Curious in regards to the newest reward, Kelly requested, “What did he ship you this 12 months?” Dakota smiled and replied, “He sends me the identical factor yearly.”

“After the cellular phone, I at all times cherished sneakers since I used to be little. And I began to suit into actually small grownup sneakers throughout the Struggle of the Worlds press tour. Since that birthday, He at all times sends me sneakers.”

Kelly expressed her amazement at Dakota's assortment through the years. “You need to have an enormous assortment of sneakers introduced by Tom Cruise.”

Dakota mentioned this in regards to the dessert custom shortly after she and Suri Cruise celebrated their 18th birthday on April 18. In distinction to Dakota's completely satisfied relationship with Tom, Tom is believed to have cut up from Suri.

Following his divorce from Katie Holmes in 2012, Katie was granted full custody of their daughter.

As a part of their settlement, Tom agreed to pay $400,000 a 12 months in baby help, an association that ended when Suri turned 18. Over the previous 12 years, Tom's contributions have been roughly $33,000 a month.

Katie didn’t ask for spousal help throughout the divorce, and Tom additionally pays Suri's insurance coverage payments and pays for her faculty tuition. Suri is anticipated to maneuver out of her house in New York with Katie this fall when she begins faculty.

Katy, 44, has at all times treasured motherhood, usually talking about her love for her daughter in interviews.

“Motherhood is every thing to me,” she mentioned in an interview with Folks in 2014. “I'm studying one thing new every single day, and I've been studying ever since I turned a mom.”

She additionally shared particulars about Suri's persona. “I like her a lot. My greatest purpose has at all times been to nurture her particular person identification. Ensuring she is one hundred pc herself, sturdy, assured and succesful,” Katy informed InStyle.