Husband, friends of Tom Cruise's mom say it's as if she died...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268977,00.html
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While Cruise should be worrying about what's left of his career, instead he seems to be digging his heels in deeper when it comes to his religious devotion. He doesn't seem to realize that a whole new generation now associates Cruise with Xenu, aliens and science fiction.
On top of this, word comes to us from Marco Island, Fla., where Tom's mom,
Mary Lee Mapother, lived for nearly two decades until exactly a year ago.
As I've reported before, it was roughly a year ago that Tom's mother left her Florida home for Tom's Beverly Hills manse and never returned.
This was a shock to her longtime second husband, Jack South, who accompanied her on a trip to see new baby granddaughter Suri. After going west with Mary Lee, South went south and east. He returned to Florida alone.
Since then, with perhaps one exception, Mary Lee Mapother has not once contacted her many friends in Marco Island.
"She just vanished," says a friend. "It's like there was a death."