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Sky News AU
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
'I'm not surprised': Tom Hanks breaks silence on daughter E.A. Hank's 'abusive' childhood claims made in her bombshell memoir
Tom Hanks has broken his silence on his daughter E.A. Hanks' claims she endured an 'abusive' childhood. The two-time Oscar winner, 68, praised E.A., 43, for the deeply personal memories of her difficult childhood she shared in her 2025 autobiography, The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road. In it, she detailed the "violence and deprivation" she suffered at the hands of her late mother, Samantha Lewes. "It's a pride because, I think, she shares it with me, she's been very open about what the process is," Hanks told Access Hollywood of his feelings about the book at "The Phoenician Scheme" premiere last week. "I'm not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal, as well as the curiosity, as well as, I'm going to say, perhaps, the 'shoot herself in the foot' kind of wherewithal in order to examine this thing that I think she was incredibly honest about." 'We all come from checked or cracked lives, all of us, despite the fact that part of it would seem as though she worked for some international well-known firm with a copyrighted last name,' the 'Forrest Gump' actor, 68, continued. 'She knows that, and she leans into absolutely everything of it, and I think anyone who does that is a bold journalistic literary mind, and I'm thrilled I can say the same thing about my daughter.' Hanks also explained that as a father, he realized who his daughter was when she was 6 weeks old, as he examined her 'personality,' 'temperament,' and the way she viewed the world through her 'body language.' The 'Cast Away' star shares E.A. and son Colin Hanks, 47, with Lewes, to whom he was married from 1978 to 1987. Lewes, born Susan Dillingham, passed away in 2002 from lung cancer. She was 49. In her tell-all book, E.A. recalled moving to Sacramento with her mum after her famous parents got a divorce. The author claimed that Lewes struggled with mental health issues and was often abusive toward her. 'She pushed me, shook me, pulled at my hair and locked me in a closet once or twice … she told me there were men hiding in her closet who were waiting for us to go to sleep to come out and do horrible things,' E.A., whose full name is Elizabeth Ann, wrote. She detailed her lifestyle at Lewes' home, explaining she was never told to brush her teeth, and there was either loads of food or nothing at all. She also alleged that Lewes would discuss her 'miscarried babies' and suggested E.A. would 'join them in eternal limbo.' When E.A. was in seventh grade, she moved to Los Angeles with her famous father after her mom's 'emotional violence became physical violence.' At the time, Tom had remarried his current wife, Rita Wilson, whom he wed in 1988. 'Rita's not really a stepmother, she's my other mother,' she told People in April. 'When I say my parents, I really mean my dad and Rita, because they've been together since before I can really remember.' Tom and Wilson, 68, share sons Chet, 34, and Truman, 29.
Daily Mirror
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Tom Hanks posts topless selfie with wife Rita Wilson to mark 37th wedding anniversary
Tom Hanks gave fans a peek into his personal life with a sun-drenched photo by the Mediterranean Sea, marking 37 years of marriage with his wife, actress and singer Rita Wilson. Posing shirtless and beaming with joy, the 68-year-old Hollywood legend shared the milestone on Instagram, where he has over 9 million followers, writing simply: '37 years married. Today! Love you, Mrs. - Mr. T Hanks.' Wilson, also 68, celebrated the occasion on her own Instagram account, opting for a more modest image of the couple bundled up in a serene, grassy setting. 'My love,' she wrote, paying quiet tribute to their love story. When asked about the glue that has kept them together all these years, Hanks told E! News, 'Finding each other! How about that.' Wilson added during a 2023 appearance on CBS Mornings: 'We do have fun. You've gotta have fun!' Their love story spans decades and began in the early 1980s, when they first crossed paths on the set of Hanks' sitcom Bosom Buddies, though he was still married at the time to his college sweetheart, Samantha Lewes. That marriage came to an end in 1987, two years after they separated. After tying the knot with Wilson in 1988, she became a stepmother to Hanks' two children from his first marriage - Colin and Elizabeth Ann (E.A.) - before the couple had two sons of their own: Chet and Truman. Recently, E.A. Hanks opened up about her difficult childhood in her memoir The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, released April 8. She writes candidly about life with her late mother, who passed away in 2002 from bone cancer at 49, revealing that their upbringing was often unstable. In the book, E.A. recalls the extremes of her early life, suggesting her mother may have suffered from untreated bipolar disorder, leading to periods of abundance followed by times when she and her brother went without food. Forrest Gump star Tom married Susan Dillingham – who went by the stage name Samantha Lewes – in 1978, before he found fame in Hollywood. The couple welcomed Elizabeth Ann and Colin together. They split in 1987 and Susan, who died in 2002 of lung cancer, got primary custody of the children. Tom, who went on to marry Rita and welcome children Chet and Truman, would see his two children during the weekends but that soon changed when Susan moved them from Los Angeles to Sacramento without telling Tom. EA alleges that she and her brother Colin were neglected and emotionally abused by their mother during their time in Sacramento, in an explosive upcoming memoir. She claims in the book that while she was in the seventh grade – which is year eight in the UK – "one night, her emotional violence became physical violence" and she moved to Los Angeles soon after. EA's mother Susan later died of lung cancer in 2002, when the writer was just 19. In her new book The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road, EA undertakes a six-month road trip from Los Angeles to Palatka, Florida - where her mum's family once lived. The book sees EA hope to learn more about her mum, who EA believes had bipolar though she was never diagnosed, and her dark past. An excerpt from the book reads: "I was born in Burbank, but after my parents split up, my mother took my older brother and me to live in Sacramento. I have few memories of the early years in Los Angeles. "Eventually a divorce agreement was settled, and I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half brothers) on the weekends and during summers, but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl. I lived in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall. "As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog s**t that you couldn't walk around it, the house stank of smoke. The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible. "One night, her emotional violence became physical violence, and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade. My custody arrangement basically switched - now I lived in L.A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summer. When I was 14, my mother and I drove across America along Interstate 10 to Florida, in a Winnebago that lumbered along the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical." The excerpt ends with: "My senior year of high school, she called to say she was dying."
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tom Hanks's daughter says her mother ‘never recovered' from his fame: ‘His stature in the world obliterated her'
Tom Hanks's daughter, E.A. Hanks, opened up about how her mother struggled to process the Forrest Gump actor's growing fame. E.A. — which stands for Elizabeth Anne — was the daughter of Hanks's first wife, Susan Dillingham. The former couple also shared son Colin Hanks. Dillingham and Hanks met as theater students at Sacramento State University and were married from 1978 to 1987. In her new memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road, E.A. embarks on a six-month-long road trip from Los Angeles to Palatka, Florida, where her mother's family is from, to learn more about her before she died from lung cancer in 2002. Part of the book discusses Dillingham adjusting to Hanks's rise after he shot to fame in the late Eighties with roles in films like Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), and Big (1988). E.A. specifically writes that her mother was a 'would-be actress who never recovered from her ex-husband's catastrophic fame.' In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, E.A. said that she thought the word 'catastrophic' was the best way to describe how Dillingham felt about her ex-husband's success. 'She felt that his stature in the world obliterated her and any chance she had at continuing her stage career,' she said. 'The uncomfortable truth, and there's a lot of them in this book, is she didn't really have a career, and her ex-husband becoming the Tom Hanks was more insult to injury than significant impediment.' She continued: ''Catastrophic' also because that brand of megawatt fame erases what actually matters in an artist and what set my dad apart in the first place: humanity and talent. But I chose that word, catastrophic, not her.' Hanks went on to re-marry Rita Wilson in 1988, and they welcomed two sons: Chet in 1990 and Truman in 1995. Despite her mother never receiving a formal diagnosis, E.A. assumed that her mother was bipolar with episodes of extreme paranoia and delusion. During a portion of her memoir, E.A. said her mother slowly started to become more neglectful, leading to a switch in the custody arrangement meaning she and Colin would only see their mother on weekends and during the summer. 'As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog s*** that you couldn't walk around it, the house stank of smoke. The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible,' her book read. 'One night, her emotional violence became physical violence, and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade.'
