Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise has admitted under oath that he did not see daughter Suri for 110 days in the wake of his traumatic split from ex-wife Katie Holmes.

In a brutal and often tense deposition on September 9, the notoriously private actor was forced to defend his role as a loving father, amid questions about whether he chose to spend more time working as a movie star and attending to the Church of Scientology than his paternal role to his seven-year-old daughter.