A supply with shut ties to Tom Cruise stated the actor's courting with Katie Holmes was “really pretty and positive” lower than a month ago, so far as Cruise was concerned.

“It was attention-grabbing factor to listen to that they have been getting a divorce, as a result of I had simply been with a pal of mine who's just about Tom, and he advised me that Tom and Katie had one of the crucial neatest friendships and relationships of all of the Hollywood couples he knew,” dating knowledgeable Kailen Rosenberg, who might be starring in OWN's "Lovetown USA," advised to FOX411. “I was blown away to listen to (concerning the divorce).”

Rosenberg's family member lends credence to reviews that Cruise had no thought Holmes was submitting for divorce from him final Thursday. 

Cruise's long-time legal professional Bert Fields instructed the l. a. Instances that Cruise additionally had but to rent a divorce attorney.

"We're excited about who to use," mentioned Fields. "WE NEED TO talk about strategy."

Holmes’ attorney, New Jersey-based divorce attorney Jonathan Wolfe, referred to as the divorce "an individual and personal matter," including that "Katie's number one fear remains, because it has at all times been, her daughter's perfect interest." 

Homes and Cruise proportion a six-year-old daughter, Suri.

"Tom is deeply saddened and is targeting his three children,” Cruise’s publicist mentioned in an announcement. “Please permit them their privateness to paintings this out.”

But each Cruise and Holmes may just use a few therapeutic proper now, in step with Rosenberg.

“Like each and every couple who will get divorced, they’ve were given to determine why it didn’t paintings and what they are able to do to heal–especially with youngsters involved,” Rosenberg instructed FOX411. “They don’t need to raise that into the following relationship, or have it grow to be a toxin for the kids.”