Tom Cruise has been telling friends that Ana de Armas did not meet his standards, a claim that seems more like a shield than the truth. It is because behind that confident story sits a man nursing disappointment, trying to stay in control of something that slipped away. At 63, the Mission: Impossible star had thrown himself fully into the eight-month romance with the 37-year-old Knives Out actress.
Their first public moment together came on Valentine’s Day, followed by quiet summer trips to Vermont, which made them look inseparable. Even within Tom Cruise’s inner circle, there was talk that the match had received rare approval from his Scientology advisers.
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