Tom Hanks has expressed his views on the personal revelations made by his daughter in her memoir.
In April, E.A. Hanks published her memoir titled *The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road*.
Elizabeth Anne, or E.A., is the only daughter of Hollywood actor Tom Hanks and his late ex-wife, Samantha Lewes. The couple also had a son, Colin Hanks, who has pursued an acting career, appearing in productions like *Fargo*, *Jumanji: The Next Level*, and *Good Guys*.
The marriage between Lewes and Hanks ended with their divorce in 1987. Tragically, Lewes passed away from lung cancer at the age of 49 in 2002.
Since then, Hanks has remarried and has enjoyed nearly four decades with actress Rita Wilson. Together, they have two sons, Chet and Truman.
Chet and Truman’s upbringing differed significantly from that of their half-siblings, E.A. and Colin, partly due to their mother Lewes’s mental health issues.
E.A. delves into the challenges of her early years in the book. Recounting her parents’ separation and her mother’s subsequent struggles, she wrote: “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.”
She further elaborated: “I lived in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall.”
“As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog sh*t that you couldn’t walk around it, the house stank of smoke.”
“The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible.”
Toy Story actor Hanks recently addressed the open nature of his daughter’s memoir.
While speaking with Access Hollywood at the premiere of his latest Wes Anderson film, *The Phoenician Scheme*, Hanks commented on his daughter’s memoir: “It’s a pride because, I think, she shares it with me, she’s been very open about what the process is.”
He added: “I’m not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal, as well as the curiosity, as well as, I’m going to say, perhaps, the shoot herself in the foot, wherewithal, in order to examine this thing that she was incredibly honest about.”
“We all come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us, despite the fact that part of it would seem as though, she would work for some international well-known firm with a copyrighted last name.”
“She knows that and she leads into absolutely everything of it and I think anyone who does that is a bold journalistic literary mind and I’m thrilled I can say the same thing about my daughter.”