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Tom Hanks addresses daughter's claim her childhood was filled with disturbing 'violence' in new memoir
Jun 5, 2025
E.A. Hanks shared details the details her memoir, which hit shelves back in April
Tom Hanks has shared his thoughts on his daughter's candid admissions shared in her memoir.
In April, E.A. Hanks released her bookThe 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road.
E.A. (real name Elizabeth Anne) is Hollywood actor Hanks' only daughter whom he shared with his late ex wife, Samantha Lewes. He also welcomed a son, Colin Hanks, with Lewes. Colin has followed in his father's acting footsteps and has starred in movies & TV shows like Fargo, Jumanji: The Next Level, and Good Guys.
Lewes and Hanks officially divorced in 1987. She later died of lung cancer at the age of 49 in 2002.
Hanks has since remarried and has been with fellow actor Rita Wilson for almost four decades. The celebrity couple share sons Chet and Truman.
Chet and Truman had very different upbringings to their half-siblings E.A. and Colin as their mother, Lewes, had mental health struggles.
E.A. detailed her hard childhood in her memoir. Speaking about her parents divorce and how her mother's wellbeing declined afterwards, E.A. penned: "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."
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