Tom Hanks‘ only daughter is sharing rare insight into her childhood.
E.A. Hanks (short for Elizabeth Anne Hanks) accused her late mother—the Oscar winner’s ex-wife Susan Dillingham, who went by the stage name Samantha Lewes—of abuse following the couple’s divorce in the ‘80s.
According to the 42-year-old, the mistreatment allegedly started after Susan obtained primary custody of her and brother Colin Hanks, now 47, and abruptly moved them from Los Angeles to Sacramento, Calif. She said the relocation caught Tom by surprise.
“My dad came to pick us up from school and we’re not there,” E.A. wrote in an excerpt from her book The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, published by People. “And it turns out we haven’t been there for two weeks and he has to track us down.”
“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,” she continued, referring to Tom’s wife Rita Wilson and their sons Chet Hanks, 34, and Truman Hanks, 29, “but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl.”
