Tom Hanks ‘daughter reveals troubled childhood after parents’ divorce

Daughter of Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Anne, known as EA Hanks, is launching a memories book that tells details of the troubled childhood after her parents’ divorce.

She is the daughter of the film star with her first wife, Susan Dilingham, who died at 49 years of lung cancer. In the book, Elizabeth says that her mother was a disturbed, aggressive and mysterious woman.

Tom Hanks, 68, and Susan Dilingham (1952-2002) met at the University of Sacramento (California), married and had two children: EA, now 42 and Colin, 47. In 1985, after five years of marriage, the couple divorced.

Susan moved with his children back to the Californian capital. They visited their father in Los Angeles on vacation and alternate weekends. In 1988, the actor married Rita Wilson, with whom he is today, and had two other children, Chet and Truman.

In the book, and he says that the mother had signs of bipolarity and episodes of paranoia, although she was never diagnosed with mental disorders.

In 2019, EA repeated a 38 -hour car trip alone, between California and Florida. From the trip, he derived the book, entitled in honor of the Interstate Highway 10: “A Ten: A Family and Road Memory” (“The 10: The Memoir of Family and the Open Road”). People magazine published an excerpt from the book.

Read Excerpt from the book:

“I’m the daughter of the first marriage. My only memories of my parents together in the same place are in my graduation and graduation of my brother. I only have one picture with my two parents together.

I was born in Burbank (CA), but after my parents divorced, my mother took us to live in Sacramento. I have few memories of life in Los Angeles. From five to 14 years my life was full of confusion, violence, deprivation and love.

We lived in a house with fence white, pool in the backyard and walls with horsepower photos. Over the years, however, the backyard was so full of dogs that it could not walk, and homes the smoke, the refrigerator was full of expired food and my mother spent more time in bed reading the Bible. One night his emotional violence became physical violence and I left to Los Angeles in the middle of seventh grade.

The guard was reversed. I went to live with my father in Los Angeles and visited my mother on vacation. In a summer, she and I cross the Interstate Highway 10 from California to Florida in a trailer. In my last year of high school, she called saying she was dying. “