Life behind closed doors for Katie Holmes was far from the romantic love-story her Hollywood husband Tom Cruise painted it to be, it has been claimed.

Today it was being suggested the pair had been living in separate sections of their sprawling LA apartment, with Katie opting to live in a large communal area in the Scientology Celebrity Centre - rather than face her increasingly controlling husband.

After Katie announced her plans to divorce her husband of five-years, their lives have been blown open with a picture of a controlling, often manipulative Cruise emerging - taking charge of his wife’s movie roles, appearance and even changing her name.

The Sunday Mirror reports the Top Gun star told his wife she must be called ‘Kate’ instead of ‘Katie’ and carefully picked her film roles - making sure the starlet didn’t opt for something he didn’t agree with.

Also their building, in the huge towering Scientology complex in LA was carefully guarded with sources revealing ‘men in suits’ stood guarding every door and even ‘escorting’ people to their own rooms.

‘Katie was really embarrassed about it and didn’t seem to like people to see the way she lived behind closed doors. Everyone knew they stayed in speerate sections of the apartment,’ a family friend said.

Cracks began to emerge after former Dawson’s Creek star Katie satrted to fear for her daughter Suri, six, when she realised Tom’s devotion to Scientology could not be wavered.

And Katie, who filed for divorce in New York - where it is thought she stands a better chance of getting custody of Suri, was thought to have ‘finally snapped’ after seeing a shot of her husband posing proactively on the cover of W magazine with two women draped over him.

But it was his unwavering commitment to following the Scientology doctrine which sowed the seed of discontent according to family and friends.

Under the doctrine a child can make his or her own decisions and Tom treated his daughter ‘like a little adult’.
A family friend said: ‘Tom basically treats Suri as a little adult, however Katie treats her like a six-year-old child, and that causes major clashes.’

‘The couple were arguing over Suri.’
The source added to RadarOnline.com: ‘Katie did not want Tom making all the decisions in Suri’s life, and that’s what was going on. She decided it was high time she started deciding on what was best for her daughter, or at least having an equal say, and she knew that would be impossible if she remained Mrs. Tom Cruise.’

Sources insist that she did tell her husband of five-and-a-half years that she was filing for divorce – but she didn’t give him a chance to control the spread of the news, as he did with Nicole Kidman.

The fact that she issued a solo statement speaks of some heat around the final extinguishing of the marriage.
However, Mr Cruise’s shock is to be believed considering the fact that the pair were spotted together in Iceland around two weeks ago, holding hands.

Nevertheless, Miss Holmes failed to turn up to at any of the worldwide premieres of her husband’s latest film Rock of Ages, despite Cruise’s constant protestations of love for his wife.

The final arguments seem to have been over where Cruise was going to spend his 50th birthday on Tuesday. He told her that he was planning to be on the set of his latest film Oblivion, in Iceland, and that seems to have been the last straw.

The statuesque brunette had frequently been pictured looking drawn and exhausted during her marriage. One Hollywood source said she had been ‘utterly miserable with Tom for months, if not years’.