When Amelia’s father gave her a soap bar and told her to take cold showers with it, she never thought he had an evil, hidden agenda behind it. Her world turned upside down when her boyfriend told her the horrifying truth about that soap.
I’ve always been Daddy’s little girl, but now I feel like throwing up when I say those words. I’m not his little girl, and he’s not the man I always thought he was. Let me tell you why.
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So, I’ve always been close to my father, like REALLY close. I’m 23, and I lived with my parents up until a month ago because Dad never wanted me to move away.
He had given me the second floor of the house where I had my bedroom and a bathroom. Those two rooms of the house solely belonged to me. They were my safe space until the day Dad began to complain.
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My father is one of those people with a personality resembling a coconut. You know, hard on the outside and soft on the inside. He has these strict rules and principles that he abides by, but he also has this empathy inside that makes him the best Dad ever.
“Character is built in discomfort,” he’d always tell me. “You gotta face the worst now if you want a life full of luxuries ahead.”
But he’d also buy me chocolates and ice cream on days I didn’t feel good.
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Meanwhile, my mother has always been the typical loving mom. She’s always ready for hugs and kisses and never says no whenever I ask her to cook my favorite pasta. She has always been a sweetheart.
However, I recently felt that my parents were not the same anymore. Over the past few months, they had grown cold, and the love and care had suddenly vanished.
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Honestly, I sometimes felt like I was living with two strangers in the house. It felt like we had lost the connection we always had.
Then began the unnecessary complaints and nitpicking from Dad’s side.
“You and your friends were too loud last night!”
“You’re staying out too late, Amy.”
“You’re spending too much on unnecessary things!”
Then came the complaint that really snatched my self-confidence.
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“You smell horrible, go take a cold shower and use the soap I gave you!”
I smell horrible? What? I thought. Where did that come from?
That was the day when Dad handed me this soap I had never seen before. It was a green, chunky soap bar that smelled a bit weird, but Dad had asked me to use it, assuring it would help get rid of the unpleasant body odor.
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His words made me feel so self-conscious that I had even stopped hanging out with my boyfriend, Henry.
I often found myself smelling my skin, clothes, hair, and even my breath, just to check what made my father feel so uncomfortable around me.
I followed his advice and used that soap whenever I took a shower. Or, if I may put it correctly, I took five showers a day just to use that soap and get rid of the smell that had apparently been haunting my father.
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I scrubbed my skin so hard that I stripped it of the moisture it needed. My skin had begun to look dry, scaly, and so rough.
Even then, my father said I still smelled like rotten onions.
“Did you use that soap, Amy? I don’t think you did,” he’d say. “You smell so bad.”
What shocked me even more was that my mother didn’t say a word when Dad humiliated me like that every day. She didn’t say anything in my defense or stop me from being so hard on myself.
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Mom and I had always been close. She was the only person I shared everything with since I was a kid. I’d always tell her about my latest crush, my new boyfriend, and even the new slang I’d learned at school.
I couldn’t believe it when she stood silently, avoiding my gaze, while Dad kept grilling me. I won’t ever forgive Mom for not being there for me when I needed her the most.
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I kept showering with the soap, and my clothes always clung to me because they were damp from the frequent showers.
Besides, I began avoiding my father. I’d always scurry up to my room and lock the door whenever he returned home from work. I didn’t want him to see me. Or, more specifically, smell me.
The turning point came when my boyfriend, Henry, came over. We had been dating for a few months, and he was the one bright spot in my increasingly bleak days.
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Henry has always been the supportive boyfriend, the green flag we all look for. He’s always been kind to me, and he came over that day because he had noticed I had been avoiding him.
“Where have you been, Amy?” he asked as he held me by my arms.
“I was… I was just busy with some stuff, Henry,” I faked a smile. “I’m fine.”
“Really? You don’t look fine, babe,” he said.
“I’m okay, Henry,” I said as I held his hand. “Tell me one thing… Do I smell bad?”
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He laughed, thinking I was kidding.
“No, babe. You smell fine. Why?”
“Nothing. I just…” I mumbled. “Forget it.”
“I’ll be right back,” he said before going to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, I watched him step out of the bathroom with the soap bar in his hand. I could see he wasn’t too happy about it.
“Who gave you this?! Are you taking cold showers with this?!?” he asked with eyes wide open.
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How did he know this? I thought.
“Yeah, my Dad. Why?” I asked, trying my best not to panic.
“They didn’t tell you, did they?! Baby, this isn’t soap! It’s used to strip industrial machinery of grease and grime.”
“Wait, what?” I was shocked.
“This stuff is toxic, Amy. It causes chemical burns.”
I can’t explain how betrayed and heartbroken I felt at that point. How could my father do this to me? To his daughter who he loved so much?
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That’s when it all started to make sense to me. The dry, itchy skin and the weird texture of the soap bar. It also made me wonder if my mother knew about this.
“I think we need to go to the hospital to get you checked,” Henry said. “And then, we’re going to the police. This is abuse, Amy.”
I don’t know why, but I stopped him.
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I knew he was telling the truth, but I couldn’t put the words “abuse” and “Dad” together. I had never seen Dad in a negative light, and I didn’t like how those words fit in the same sentence and made so much sense.
In short, I couldn’t accept that my father had tried to hurt me.
“We can’t do that,” I told Henry. “We can’t go to the police.”
“But why?” he asked.
“I’ll explain that later,” I said. “Please just help me get out of here. I’ll confront my parents later.”
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He agreed, and we moved into a small apartment a few days later. It was cramped and barely furnished, but it felt like a safe haven compared to what I had endured.
Then, it was time for me to confront my parents. I drove back to their house the next day.
When I arrived, Dad was in his usual spot, watching TV in the living room, and Mom was in the kitchen. I walked in with the soap bar in my hand and stood in front of my dad.
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“I never thought you’d do this to me, Dad,” I said as I held the soap bar high enough for him to see. “This is toxic. It’s poison. It ruined my skin. Why did you do this?”
“Oh, so you finally found what it is, huh?” he smirked. “You needed to learn a lesson.”
“A lesson?” I laughed. “You nearly killed me. For what? Because you thought I smelled bad?”
“Please stop this!” My mother finally intervened. “Amy, yo—”
“You knew, Mom, didn’t you?” I cut her off. “You were a part of this ridiculous plan, right?”
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I watched tears trickle down her cheeks, but she didn’t say a word.
“Why did you do this to me, Dad?” I confronted my father. “I need to know!”
I wasn’t ready for his response. I had no idea it would turn my world upside down.
“You want to know why?” he said, almost to himself. “Fine. When your mother and I went on that vacation last year, we had a little too much to drink. We ended up in a crowd, where a fortune teller told me that your mother had been unfaithful.”
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“What are you talking about?” I asked as my heart flipped.
“That’s true,” he continued. “When I confronted your mother the next morning, she told me the truth. She told me you weren’t mine. You’re the result of an affair she had while I was working hard for us in another country.”
I looked at my mom, who couldn’t meet my gaze. Then, I looked back at Dad as he continued to speak.
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“Your mother begged me not to leave her because she didn’t want to break our family apart,” he shook his head. “So, I agreed. But on one condition. I had to make her pay, and you too. Because YOU ARE NOT MY DAUGHTER!”
My heart shattered into a million pieces that day. I couldn’t believe my father had this evil side. The evil personality that was so hungry for unjust revenge.
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“You mean you gave me that toxic soap because you were angry at Mom? Because you thought I was not your daughter?” I asked as the tears in my eyes blurred my vision.
“You’re not my daughter,” he said and turned around. “You’re not my blood.”
For the next few seconds, I stared at his back in silence, wondering why he punished me for something that wasn’t my fault.
“Alright, I’m done with you,” I said as I wiped away my tears. “You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.”
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And with that, I stepped out of the house that was once my haven. Over the next few days, I visited the hospital multiple times for my skin treatment and talked to my lawyer regarding how I could file a case against my parents.
Soon, my father received a notice of the restraining order and the impending lawsuit. With that, his smug confidence was shattered, and his reputation was in ruins. His entire circle was disgusted by his actions.
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Meanwhile, Mom tried to get in touch with me, but I didn’t reply to any of her calls or texts. If she couldn’t take a stand for me, why should I even bother talking to her? I was done.
Now, living with Henry, I feel a sense of peace that had been missing from my life for ages. I don’t remember the last time I had laughed this much in my own house. I can’t thank fate enough for blessing me with a man like Henry. I have no idea what I’d do without him.
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Suri Cruise, The Daughter Of Katie And Tom Cruise Silently Changed Her Name
Now that she is eighteen, Suri Cruise has a lot of options, one of which is to discreetly alter her name.
One person who is able to legally talk about her father’s divorce from her is Katie Holmes, the famous couple’s daughter.
By changing her name, Suri Cruise, the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, made a significant transition toward adulthood. Suri recently turned eighteen and decided not to take the last name of her father.
Her performance in the Broadway musical “Head Over Heels” revealed this bold decision. In the play, she was purportedly Princess Philoclea, the part originally portrayed by Alexandra Socha in the Broadway production.
On the high school production’s casting form, she wasn’t identified as Suri Noelle. Katie Holmes’ full name is Kate Noelle Holmes, reflecting her desire to adopt her mother’s middle name.
Following the announcement of her choice, Suri was spotted carefree as she strolled through New York City. Wearing a pink blouse and white pants, Suri walked around muting the noise with her headphones on.
Furthermore, the name she now goes by differs significantly from the one on her original birth certificate. She was called Suri Cruise at birth and given her father’s well-known surname, according to the documents.
On May 8, 2006, the certificate was submitted to the Los Angeles County Clerk/Register-Recorder. It has a few peculiarities. Suri was born on April 18, but it took 20 days for the papers to be filed—that is, until May 8.
This was an unusually long delay because St. John’s Hospital typically files birth certificates within ten days of the baby’s birth. A hospital asserted that the certificate’s certification was not signed by a parent or other authorized signatory, which caused the delay. It’s noteworthy to observe that a “friend” has signed the certificate.The signature is still not readable.
Another peculiarity is the signature of the “Attendant or Certifier,” Anne Heffernan, RNC. Anne was not in the delivery room and she did not see the baby.
Although the signature of the attending physician is customary, it is not mandatory, according to hospital officials. Permission to sign in place of the doctor was granted to Heffernan.
Now that Suri Noelle is an adult, she can legally change her name because she is eighteen years old. It also gives her the courage to speak honestly about her thoughts on personal matters, like as her relationship with her father and his Scientology beliefs.
“Suri would have been too young to sign any agreement, but she will now be free to talk if she wants to, and it’s going to be really interesting if she has something to say,” stated veteran Scientology researcher Tony Ortega.
Tony went on to say that part of the reason Katie left Scientology at the age of six was because she would have seen the pain that Tom’s other children, Isabella and Connor, went through.
If Suri is prepared to share details of her personal life with the world, only time will tell. She is aware of the information that has previously been publicized regarding her connection with her father, as her parents are well-known A-list celebrities.
For the past three years, Suri and Tom’s tense relationship has been widely known. Until the daughter reached adulthood, the father and daughter were not together. When Tom was filming “Mission Impossible 8,” Suri was enjoying her birthday in the US, but they were hundreds of miles apart.
Tom’s sighting in London and Suri’s celebration in New York have previously been discussed. The 61-year-old actor, who loves flying helicopters as one of his favorite modes of transportation, grinned widely in the photo. On the other hand, Tom’s appearance sparked a lot of remarks from internet users.
“OMG. Mr. Tom Cruise, my all-time favorite, has a grandfatherly appearance. Already,” wrote a Facebook user. “Whoa! I didn’t recognize him,” said an additional person.Another person said, “This picture doesn’t look like him.” Another person commented, “Boy, he looks different.”Another aspect of Tom’s looks that some people noticed was that his hair color, which made him appear older.
On her birthday, Suri—who lives in New York with her mother—was spotted. The youngest and estranged daughter of the actor was spotted out and about in New York City with a pal on her birthday. She held a gift in her hands and was dressed in bootcut jeans and a denim jacket. And on a wet day, she carried a pink umbrella.
While many social media users noted how much Suri resembled her mother Katie, others had conflicting opinions about her appearance.
Gorgeous girl, she looks just like her mother, exclaimed a social media user.”Excellent! A replica of her mother,” concurred an Instagram user.Another person said, “Wow, she is her mom’s twin!”Another person said, “I assumed this was her mother.”
Other social media users caught sight of Suri’s umbrella for a variety of reasons.She doesn’t need much to have the ideal birthday celebration. An umbrella, some friends, and the rest will follow! She is a woman, our girl! powerful like her mommy!”Why is she using an umbrella for a four-year-old?” a user named X asked.Someone else made an inquiry.
“What is she wearing???” was a question left in a comment on Suri’s Instagram image by another fan of her sense of style. It appears that her mother gave her good taste in clothing.
A few days after her birthday, Suri was spotted with her mother again. The two were dressed casually and enjoying coffee. Even Vogue’s Twitter celebrated the two for their fashionable outfits, suggesting that they may appear in a Chloé advertisement.
Suri and her mother Katie have a strong and lasting bond because of their many years of shared experiences. Their relationship is an illustration of a robust and enduring mother-daughter bond.
Katie has always kept an eye on Suri. When she stated in 2017 that her child was the most important person in her life, she emphasized how essential the child’s upbringing was to her profession at the moment. She discussed how crucial it is to support her child and give them a safe, worry-free upbringing.
Though Katie felt lucky to be in her line of work, nothing could match the satisfaction of watching her child succeed. The actress tried to savor Suri’s formative years as much as she could.
Katie came to the painful realization that youngsters grow more independent every day. Even though she knew their inevitable parting would be horrible, she wanted to make sure Suri had all she needed before heading off on her own.
When Suri was fourteen years old, actress Leah Remini believed that Tom intended to wait to bring his daughter to Scientology. According to Leah, Katie was viewed by Scientology as a repressive person and an enemy.
This suggested that Tom didn’t think Katie and Suri could date. Leah also hinted that Tom wanted to grow older and lure Suri into Scientology in order to distance her from her mother.
Leah was shocked by Katie and Tom’s sudden breakup in 2012. She recalled Katie’s intense concentration on Tom’s Scientology environment. Leah did commend Katie, though, for prioritizing her daughter’s health.
Leah made a suggestion that perhaps an arrangement existed to keep Suri safe. She continued by expressing her gratitude to Katie Holmes for rescuing her daughter from a situation that would have damaged Suri and their bond.
However, speaking about the future, former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder stated, “Suri is not and never will be a Scientologist.She is deserving of compassion and affection.
Over the years, Katie has been a loving and supportive mother to her daughter, offering consolation following a difficult childhood caused by her parents’ divorce. Suri will be able to take charge of her own life and make decisions on her own as she gets closer to maturity.
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