Connor Cruise Defends His Dad, Tom

Friday September 14, 2012 1:00 PM EDT
Tom Cruise's son used this old picture of the star's kids to defend him on Twitter.
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Tom Cruise has been coming under for fire for being an absentee dad to youngest daughter Suri — he was in London on the momentous occasion of the 6-year-old’s first-ever day of school in NYC — but his son, Connor, clearly thinks Tom’s a great dad.

The 17-year-old posted a touching vintage photo of Tom with Connor and his adopted sister Isabella, 19 — from Tom’s second marriage to Nicole Kidman — on his Twitter account on Sept. 13. “Love my family,” tweeted Connor alongside the snap of an adoring Tom holding the then-toddlers.

It’s the second such shout-out from the DJ, who goes by the moniker “C-Squared.” On July 1 — days after Suri’s mom, Katie Holmes, blind-sided Tom by filing divorce papers — Connor retweeted a posted from one of his followers, “#LaFamilia Always. Friends Come And Go, But Family Is Forever.”