Tom Hanks’ daughter’s bombshell allegations exposed.
Tom Hanks’ daughter, E.A. Hanks, is lifting the veil on her painful past in a bombshell new memoir.
Contents of memoir described.
The memoir isn’t just about her childhood—it’s also a meditation on American life.
Her cross-country journey in 2019 led her to profound realizations.
Along the way, she met strangers whose stories reshaped her understanding of identity.
She discovered her maternal grandfather might have been connected to a murder.
The journey forced her to confront fact versus fiction in her family history.
“The stories we tell about where we are from cannot be divided from the stories we tell about who we are,” she reflected.
The book merges personal pain with broader themes of America’s cultural landscape.
The 10 promises to be an eye-opening, unfiltered account of survival and self-discovery.
E.A. Hanks’s turbulent childhood unveiled.
The book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, reveals shocking claims about her late mother, Susan Dillingham.
Dillingham, who acted under the name Samantha Lewes, was married to Hanks for nine years before their 1987 divorce.
In the memoir, Hanks describes a chaotic childhood filled with neglect, emotional turmoil, and even violence.
“The backyard was full of dog s***, the house stank of smoke, and the fridge was usually empty,” she writes.
The book follows Hanks, now 42, as she embarks on a solo road trip, retracing her past and her mother’s hidden secrets.
A former Vanity Fair staffer, she spent years grappling with the realities of her upbringing.
Through her mother’s diaries, she uncovered details “darker and more violent than she ever imagined.”
The memoir, set for release on April 8, explores her journey of self-reflection and discovery.
The extent of the violence highlighted.
Her father, the legendary Forrest Gump actor, gained custody of her in her early teens.
Before then, Hanks spent weekends and summers with him and his second wife, Rita Wilson.
But life with her mother in Sacramento was far from stable.
“One night, her emotional violence became physical violence,” Hanks writes.
That night marked the moment she moved to Los Angeles permanently.
Dillingham died of lung cancer in 2002 at just 49 years old.
Hanks believes her mother suffered from undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
Despite the pain, she has wrestled with preserving her mother’s memory.
The power of acceptance clarified.
“I was afraid to tell my dad how bad it really got,” she admitted.
She considered herself a “protector” of her mother’s secrets for years.
But now, she says she’s ready to tell the full truth.
Her father, she reveals, has been nothing but supportive of her memoir.
“I’m equally my father’s daughter,” she says. “He taught me to tell the truth and move forward.”
The anticipation grows.
As the release date nears, anticipation for the memoir is only growing.
One thing is clear—E.A. Hanks is no longer staying silent.