She and her mother Katie Holmes escaped from Scientology after it was revealed that Suri would be alienated from her mother for 6 weeks on a cruise ship; her mother objected to this and the two of them left Scientology.
She was born on the same day and in the same hospital as Brooke Shields's daughter Grier Henchy. Her father Tom had famously feuded with Shields three years earlier after she gave birth to her first daughter Rowan.