Tom Hanks’ solely daughter, E.A. Hanks, remembers an advanced childhood marred by her dad and mom’ divorce and a mom she claims may very well be emotionally and bodily “violent.”
E.A., whose initials stand for Elizabeth Anne, wrote about her expertise in her upcoming memoir, “The ten: A Memoir of Household and the Open Highway.” The 42-year-old’s dad and mom separated after 5 years of marriage in 1985, and her mom, Susan Dillingham, whom she describes as Hanks’ first “non-famous” spouse, received main custody.
The “Massive” actor noticed E.A. and her older brother Colin Hanks, 47, on weekends and in the summertime, she wrote in an excerpt obtained by Individuals journal.
E.A. stated she was born within the Los Angeles space, however her mom moved them to Sacramento after the separation.
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E.A. Hanks is Tom Hanks’ solely daughter. (Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan by way of Getty Photos)
“Finally a divorce settlement was settled, and I might go to my dad and stepmother (and shortly sufficient my youthful half brothers) on the weekends and through summers, however from 5 to 14, years stuffed with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I used to be a Sacramento lady,” she wrote. “I lived in a white home with columns, a yard with a pool, and a bed room with footage of horses plastered on each wall.”
She stated Dillingham, who additionally glided by the stage identify Samantha Lewes, failed to inform their father she was leaving LA with the kids.
“My dad got here to choose us up from faculty, and we’re not there,” E.A. defined, based on Individuals. “And it seems we have not been there for 2 weeks, and he has to trace us down.”
In Sacramento, E.A. and Colin’s life with Dillingham was troubled.
“Because the years went on, the yard grew to become so stuffed with canine s— that you just couldn’t stroll round it, the home stank of smoke,” she wrote, including she believes her mom, though undiagnosed, suffered from bipolar dysfunction and episodes of maximum paranoia and delusions.
“The fridge was naked or stuffed with expired meals as a rule, and my mom spent increasingly more time in her huge four-poster mattress, poring over the Bible.”
“Finally a divorce settlement was settled, and I might go to my dad and stepmother (and shortly sufficient my youthful half brothers) on the weekends and through summers, however from 5 to 14, years stuffed with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I used to be a Sacramento lady.”
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Tom Hanks with Rita Wilson, E.A. and her brothers on the 2020 Golden Globes. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Photos)
Then Hanks out of the blue received main custody after an incident.
“One night time, her emotional violence grew to become bodily violence, and within the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, proper smack in the course of the seventh grade,” she wrote. “My custody association principally switched — now I lived in L.A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summertime.”
E.A. added that, in her senior 12 months of highschool, her mom “known as to say she was dying.”
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and E.A. Hanks in 2007. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
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Dillingham died of lung most cancers in 2002 on the age of 49.
The memoir is especially targeted on a street journey she took in 2019 from LA to Palatka, Florida, the place Dillingham’s household used to reside to try to be taught extra about her mom. It was impressed by a distinct street journey she and her mother took collectively.
“Once I was 14, my mom and I drove throughout America alongside Interstate 10 to Florida, in a Winnebago that lumbered alongside the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical,” she wrote of considered one of her final recollections of Dillingham.
She stated the one time she remembers her dad and mom being “in the identical place on the similar time” was at Colin’s and her highschool graduations.
Tom Hanks with E.A. in Paris in 1994. (ARNAL/Gamma-Rapho by way of Getty Photos)
“I’ve one image of me standing between my dad and mom,” she wrote. “In it, my mom’s greatest wig is barely askew.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to reps for Hanks for remark.
After his divorce from Dillingham in 1987, Hanks married Rita Wilson in 1988. They share two sons — Chet, 34, and Truman, 29.
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E.A.’s memoir, “The ten: A Memoir of Household and the Open Highway,” is out Tuesday.
