For the first time since court documents from Tom Cruise‘s legal battle with Bauer Media surfaced, his legal team is publicly firing back.
The star’s high-powered attorney, Bert Fields, is taking issue with details from a deposition that was made public this week, in which a lawyer for the publisher says Cruise likened his career to being a combat soldier.
“The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record,” Fields said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.
“What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, ‘That’s what it feels like.’ ”