A lawyer for two magazines being sued by Tom Cruise pressed the Hollywood megastar in a contentious deposition about time he'd spent with rumored rebound girlfriend Cameron Diaz, in the wake of his split from ex-wife Katie Holmes.

In a transcript of the interrogation held on Sept. 9 in Los Angeles, obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, attorney Elizabeth McNamara, who is representing defendants Life & Style and In Touch in a $50 million libel lawsuit, probed Cruise about whether he'd attended a private birthday bash for Diaz, 41, whilst in London in 2012.

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McNamara was attempting to support the publications claim that the 51-year-old Oscar-nominee "abandoned" his daughter Suri after his June 2012 divorce from Holmes by choosing to do things - such as shoot films and take 24-hour trips for Scientology on his private jet - instead of spending time with Suri.

"You went to birthday parties," McNamara probed Cruise during the often heated videotaped deposition.

He responded, "I don't recall going to..."

"Or a birthday party," McNamara added.

"I don't recall going to a birthday party," the actor rep