“The fridge was empty or full of expired foods and my mother spent more and more time in her bed, studying the Bible,” Tom Hanks’ daughter writes in her book.
Elizabeth Hanks, Tom Hanks’ daughter and his first wife, Samantha lewestalked about her hectic childhood and the complex relationship with her mother in her new book, “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road”.
In an excerpt published by “People”, the author – now using the name EA – wrote about how her parents’ separation in 1985 shaped the first years of herself and her brother, Colin Hanks.
“I am a child from the first (non -famous) marriage. My only memories of my parents in the same place at the same time are Colin’s graduation from high school and then my graduation from high school »says Tom Hanks’ daughter.
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The author, today, 42, has very few memories from the early years in Los Angeles, because her mother carried them, without warning, six hours away to Sacramento, shortly after her divorce from her protagonist “Forrest Gamb”.
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“Eventually a divorce agreement was reached. I was visiting my father and my mother (and soon my younger siblings) on weekends and summers, but from 5 to 14 years of confusion, violence, deprivation and love, I was a Sacramento girl »she writes in her book.
“I was living in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool and a bedroom with horses photos stuck on each wall”.
However, things took a different turn, as she writes, as her mother’s mental health was disturbed. “The backyard was filled with dogs that you couldn’t walk around, the house smelled smoke. The refrigerator was empty or full of expired foods most of the time and my mother spent more and more time in her big bed, studying the Bible. “remembers Elizabeth.
Elizabeth in another part of her book writes that “One night, her mother’s emotional violence became physical” And after that, he moved to Los Angeles. “The last year of high school, he called me to tell me that he was dying”.
Lewes, whose real name was Susan Dillingham, died of lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 49. EA He was only 19 years old then. EA told People that she suspected that her mother was living with a non -diagnosed bipolar disorder, with episodes of extreme paranoia and delusions. Lewes met Tom Hanks in the mid -1970s, while both theater in Sacramento was studying.
EA told People that she suspected that her mother was living with a non -diagnosed bipolar disorder, with episodes of extreme paranoia and delusions. Lewes met Tom Hanks in the mid -1970s, while both theater in Sacramento was studying.
The couple welcomed their first child, Colin in 1977, and married a year later. They became parents of two children in 1982, when Elizabeth was born. However, happiness was short -lived and the couple broke up in 1985. Their divorce was finalized two years later. Lewes took the main curation of divorce and the children had set visits on weekends and in the summer with their dad until the situation was overthrown in their teens.
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