Tom Cruise blatantly denied tabloid claims that he "abandoned" his daughter in a deposition he gave Sept. 9 as part of a $50 million lawsuit he filed, which was recently released to the public.

He also said it is "absolutely false" that Suri Cruise was upset and crying a lot as a result of his absence. He called the tabloid covers "absolutely disgusting," "greatly offensive" and said he called for a retraction, but that the publications would not grant it to him.

"I am used to a tremendous amount of, you know, misrepresentations, but when it comes to something like that, I find it appalling," he said. "In terms of me abandoning my child, totally inaccurate."

"As my numerous emails with Suri's mother during this time demonstrated, I was a constant presence in Suri's life during that time that the defendants falsely claimed that I abandoned her."

Enstars listed a brief overview of Tom's deposition and some of the revelations that surfaced.

-- The deposition proved that Tom had spent much time apart from his daughter.

The actor acknowledged he did not see his daughter for more than 100 days last year from Aug. 4 until Thanksgiving. He also had no disputes to claims that between the period of time between June 18 until Thanksgiving 2012 he only saw his daughter for 10 days.

-- Tom talked about building a relationship with Suri over the phone instead of in person, especially was he was away in Vancouver filming Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, which came out in 2011.

"You have to work at it. I've gotten really good at it," Tom said about speaking with Suri over the phone. "I tell wonderful stories and they like hearing it."

"I've gotten pretty good at communicating, and I also find that, you know, Suri, you know, is a very happy child, and confident and has a good sense of herself."

-- Tom was questioned about why he took time out of filming to fly from the U.S. to London for a Scientology event but did not make a similar effort to see his daughter. He again responded by citing his filming commitments and coordinating schedules with ex-wife Katie Holmes.

"When a divorce occurs things change. And it's more complicated...you now have to ask for permission and organize schedules to make things happen. So it wasn't -- it's not an ideal scene. It's not an ideal situation," he said. "What doesn't change is the love I have for my daughter, the fact that I didn't abandon her emotionally, physically or otherwise."

-- Tom referred to his divorce from Holmes more than once when defending his claim that he has not "abandoned" Suri, despite not seeing her as often as he would like. When asked about a 2012 occasion when he had time but did not fly to New York to see Suri, Tom responded with the following:

"As I said, things change and there is different agreements, like in any divorce, where now you work out schedules. It's just a different set of circumstances. It certainly does not mean that I've abandoned my daughter."

-- Aside from denying claims about neglecting his daughter, Tom also said he did not go to Cameron Diaz's 2012 birthday party in London. The topic was brought up when Tome was asked about his free nights in London, where he was on location filming a movie. He said twice, "you can't believe everything you read."

-- Tom missed Suri's first day of school but said his daughter "never mentioned" that she wanted him to be there on that day.

"With Suri, if she had asked me to be there I would have been there," Tom said. "I would have tried to make it work out in any way that I could."

-- Tom admitted in a court deposition that Scientology played a role in his divorce from Holmes. When he was asked if Scientology was "one of the reasons" Holmes left him, Cruise responded, "That was one of the assertions, yes." He also said "there are many different other [sic] aspects to the divorce."

-- Tom spoke about his own father, saying he was also gone for much of the time that the actor was growing up.

"My father worked, he worked, and that my parents were divorced and that I didn't see him."

He denied seeing similarities between his father and himself: "Absolutely none. My father didn't pay money. He didn't call." He got upset about being equated with his father.

"Even the fact that you would suggest that I was being like my father, it's the same thing that my father did, and suggesting that that's something that I'm doing in terms of abandoning my children, I find that greatly offensive."

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