Tom Cruise: I'm still close to daughter Suri despite busy schedule
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tom Cruise is telling a federal court he maintains a close relationship with his daughter Suri despite his divorce from her mother Katie Holmes and a hectic film schedule.
Cruise's declaration was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles in a defamation case against Bauer Publishing Co. The actor is suing over 2012 tabloid articles that claimed he had "abandoned" his daughter. The stories in Life & Style and In Touch magazines cited Cruise's absence from Suri's life due to overseas film shoots.
He writes in the two-page declaration that despite filming back-to-back movies after the divorce, he spoke with Suri nearly every day and got frequent updates from Holmes about how she was doing.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I have in no way cut Suri out of my life — whether physically, emotionally, financially or otherwise," Cruise wrote.
Cruise's lawyers are asking a judge to order Bauer to declare it didn't have any sources to support its contentions about his parenting role.
Bauer's lawyers argue that a judge should reject Cruise's motion.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Associated Press contributed to this report.