Katie Holmes tap-danced around truth a day before divorce filing

Katie Holmes couldn’t tell a lie, but she definitely tap danced around the truth in an interview conducted the day before she filed for divorce from Tom Cruise.

In hindsight, her soon-to-be-blindsided spouse’s name was remarkably absent from a sit-down she had with California style magazine C on a Wednesday in June, according to Kelsey McKinnon, the senior editor who talked to Holmes.

“Going back over the tapes, there were signs,� McKinnon said (via the New York Post). “Holmes was certainly very aware of herself, laying a couple of cards on the table but never showing her whole hand.�

Holmes would go on the next day to file for divorce in a New York court, with Cruise off filming in Iceland when the bomb went off in the media the following Monday.

Eleven days later, a settlement would be reached in what turned out to be one of the biggest gossip letdowns in recent memory.

Chatting with C, the actress spoke of feeling “more balanced� and having “more to bring to the table� in her work, compared with her younger self.

But when asked whether having daughter Suri had brought her closer to Cruise, she went sideways.

“I don’t know. I mean ... I don’t know,� Holmes said. “People have been having babies a long time.�

Yes, Katie. Yes, they have.

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