Who Is Tom Cruise Dating?
From Cher to Katie Holmes, All the People Tom Cruise Has Romanced Over the Years
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Cruise met his first wife in 1986. The two have differing accounts of how they initially connected, with Rogers claiming that a mutual friend set them up, and Cruise alleging that Rogers was dating someone else when they met, as per Parade. Regardless of how the pair crossed paths, their relationship took off pretty fast, and a year after they met, they tied the knot in a private ceremony in May 1987, according to The Daily Beast.
Rogers, a second-generation Scientologist, is likely one of the greatest influences that introduced Cruise to the controversial belief system that he has since adopted so passionately. Throughout their marriage, details of the relationship between Cruise and Rogers were constantly speculated, and combined with the actor's growing fame following films like "Cocktail" and "Rain Man." The couple quietly split in 1989 and announced their split in January 1990, as reported by Entertainment Weekly.
Though Rogers and Cruise have an amicable relationship today, the two didn't always see eye to eye after their divorce. In a 1995 interview with People, Rogers spoke harshly about her marriage to Cruise, telling the outlet, "You cease to be an individual...No matter what the article is, it's 'Tom Cruise's wife' . . . Waiting for the moment when I don't have to talk about that [blankety-blank] name anymore."