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Tom Hanks addresses daughter's claim her childhood was filled with disturbing 'violence' in new memoir

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Published 08:54 5 Jun 2025 GMT+1

Tom Hanks addresses daughter's claim her childhood was filled with disturbing 'violence' in new memoir

E.A. Hanks shared details the details her memoir, which hit shelves back in April

Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton

Tom Hanks has shared his thoughts on his daughter's candid admissions shared in her memoir.

In April, E.A. Hanks released her book The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road.

E.A. (real name Elizabeth Anne) is Hollywood actor Hanks' only daughter whom he shared with his late ex wife, Samantha Lewes. He also welcomed a son, Colin Hanks, with Lewes. Colin has followed in his father's acting footsteps and has starred in movies & TV shows like Fargo, Jumanji: The Next Level, and Good Guys.

Lewes and Hanks officially divorced in 1987. She later died of lung cancer at the age of 49 in 2002.

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Hanks has since remarried and has been with fellow actor Rita Wilson for almost four decades. The celebrity couple share sons Chet and Truman.

Tom Hanks has four children (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Tom Hanks has four children (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Chet and Truman had very different upbringings to their half-siblings E.A. and Colin as their mother, Lewes, had mental health struggles.

E.A. detailed her hard childhood in her memoir. Speaking about her parents divorce and how her mother's wellbeing declined afterwards, E.A. penned: "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."

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She continued: "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."

Now Toy Story alum Hanks has responded to his daughter's candid admissions.

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Hanks' daughter E.A. is from his first marriage (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for ABA)
Hanks' daughter E.A. is from his first marriage (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for ABA)

Speaking to Access Hollywood at the premiere of his new Wes Anderson movie The Phoenician Scheme, Hanks said of how he feels about his daughter's tell-all book: "It’s a pride because, I think, she shares it with me, she’s been very open about what the process is."

He continued: "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.

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"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."

Featured Image Credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images

Topics: Tom Hanks, Hollywood, News, Celebrity, Parenting

Niamh Shackleton
Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton is an experienced journalist for UNILAD, specialising in topics including mental health and showbiz, as well as anything Henry Cavill and cat related. She has previously worked for OK! Magazine, Caters and Kennedy.

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