Katie Holmes emerged from seclusion Monday, shedding remnants of her life with including her wedding ring.
In her first public appearance since she filed for divorce Thursday to save her 6-year-old daughter from the clutches of Scientology, a smiling Holmes surfaced in New York to tape a TV spot.
Along with the Cartier diamond-studded wedding band that she had been wearing as recently as last week, Holmes was also free of some other Cruise baggage:
- She returned to her premarriage mouthpiece, Leslie Sloane at BWR, sacking the publicist she had worked with since 2007.
- She fired her husband s security team, which had guarded her as recently as last week, TMZ reported. According to the website, the bodyguard and driver had worked for Cruise for years, even before he met Holmes, and had followed her every move while in New York.
- The actress was convinced Cruise planned to prep their young daughter Suri for an early entrance into the ultrazealous Scientology group called Sea Org, leaving her no choice but to cut ties, TMZ reported.
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise back in 2009. (Angel Fernandez/AP)
Seemingly relishing her newfound independence, Holmes smiled at photographers as she breezed into a taping of Lifetime s Project Runway: All Stars show at Parsons The New School of Design in Manhattan.
She did great, show judge Isaac Mizrahi told People.com after the six-hour shoot, for which Holmes acted as a guest judge.
Holmes was surrounded by a new group of self-selected handlers, a clear sign the beautiful brunette is making a major break from the Cruise-controlled, Scientology-centered world she s inhabited for the last 51/2 years.
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Raised a Catholic in Ohio, Holmes fired Sloane in 2005, just months after meeting the Top Gun star, paving the way for Cruise s Scientologist sister, Lee Ann DeVette, to take over as the couple s public rep.
The Dawson s Creek star later hired respected West Coast publicist Ina Treciokas in 2007 to restore some sanity after DeVette s disastrous run, but the return to Sloane sent an obvious message.
It happened in the last week, a source close to Sloane told the Daily News of the rehiring.
Holmes, 33, pulled the plug on her much-maligned marriage with a surprise filing that seeks sole legal custody of Suri, the couple s only child.
Her paperwork, filed anonymously, cited irreconcilable differences and stated that the union broke down more than six months ago language necessary for Holmes to use New York s new no-fault divorce law.
Cruise, who has been in Iceland filming his new movie Oblivion, a $140 million post-apocalyptic science-fiction epic, was said to have been blindsided by his spouse s flight.
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