Cruise met Mimi Rogers in 1985 at a dinner party he was dating with his friend.
They quietly tied the knot on May 9, 1987 in upstate New York. Emilio Estevez was the best guy on the cruise. His mother, Mary Lee South, told people that her new stepdaughter was “first class.”
The Gung Ho actress was previously married to Scientology counselor Jim Rogers, and is said to have introduced Cruise to religion. “She took him under the wing,” Cruz biographer Wensley Clarkson told Entertainment Weekly in 2000. (Rogers then left the church.)
The actors announced they had divorced in January 1990.
“Is that what I was bored at that kid and threw him on him and bit him and spit him out?” Rodgers recovered to Playboy when asked in 1993 why his marriage to Cruz didn’t go well. “Well, here’s the real story. Tom was seriously thinking about becoming a monk. At least for that period, marriage seemed not to suit his overall spiritual needs. She added, “My instrument needed adjustments.”
Rogers, six years older than Cruise, told the Telegraph in 2001. “Stardom wasn’t that much of a problem, but what bothered me was lifting up the gap between Tom and me and exaggerating every six months.
