I don’t know what to think. I’ll just put the story out there for you and you take it as you wish.
Kinda like - I report, you decide! 
Actually, FOX reports it: Katie Holmes’ Missing Days
The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to her friends and family.
There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know where she was.
Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the premiere of “Steel Magnolias” on Broadway.She came with her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, and a couple of other friends. They were there to support Rebecca Gayheart, who was making her Broadway debut.
I know this because I spoke to Holmes at length during the play’s intermission. She said she had just moved into her New York apartment and was looking forward to seeing the city. I also know that on April 4, she had not yet made the acquaintance of Tom Cruise. She briefly dated Josh Hartnett after breaking up with actor Chris Klein.
Hartnett, Klein, Cruise: Which of these three is not like the others?
Well…if it is true that no one knows where she was for 16 days, and then she turned up madly in love with Tom Cruise…that might be a heck of a story. Or simply a surpassing strange series of events. Or something.
June 22nd, 2005 at 11:07 am
Brainwashing, my foot.
I say it all went to lawyers’ negotiations. First, for the initial stuff (publicity how-to’s; coordinating mutual appointment calendars for public appearances: when, where; etc).
Later for the pre-nup. As the Daily News says,
Some engaging tidbits
So here’s what I’m hearing about that relationship.
A source VERY close to the deal is saying there’s a contract.
It’s worth $5 million.
It’s for five years.
There will be no sex.
The deal was sealed June 7.
That’s what I’m hearing.
What I keep asking is, can it possibly be worth it??
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:01 pm
I didn’t know Scientology “bootcamp’ lasted 16 days?
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:20 pm
Would you think badly of me if I said “I don’t care” “Didn’t know celebreties had brains to wash” “Huh hum”?
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:56 pm
The Manchurian Bride??
Really, it’s like The Firm, ironically starting Tom Cruise.
You can’t leave the firm.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:17 am
Iris, LOL!
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:27 am
But seriously, Anchoress.
Something is odd about all this. I wonder if she shut out all common sense in order to end up with this guy.
And if she idolized him as a youngster, as some reports said, I wonder if the phrase “Be careful about what you wish for, you might get it” applies here.
Either way, I believe she’s on her merry way to jump off a cliff… without bungie cords.
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:52 am
So no one here has ever fallen madly in love with (what everyone tells us is) just the WRONG person?
I have.
Argue the intelligence of Ms. Holmes as much as you wish (and I won’t argue), but I don’t think we need to ascribe to brainwashing what can more probably be blamed on hormones.
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:53 am
So no one here has ever fallen madly in love with (what everyone tells us is) just the WRONG person?
I have.
Argue the intelligence of Ms. Holmes as much as you wish (and I won’t argue), but I don’t think we need to ascribe to brainwashing what can more probably be blamed on hormones.