Chet Hanks Reveals the TRUTH About Life arsenic Tom Hanks' Son

Tom Hanks' lone girl is sharing uncommon penetration into her childhood.

E.A. Hanks (short for Elizabeth Anne Hanks) accused her precocious mother—the Oscar winner's ex-wife Susan Dillingham, who went by the signifier sanction Samantha Lewes—of maltreatment pursuing the couple’s divorcement successful the ‘80s.

According to the 42-year-old, the mistreatment allegedly started aft Susan obtained superior custody of her and member Colin Hanks, present 47, and abruptly moved them from Los Angeles to Sacramento, Calif. She said the relocation caught Tom by surprise.

“My dada came to prime america up from schoolhouse and we're not there," E.A. wrote successful an excerpt from her publication The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, published by People. "And it turns retired we haven't been determination for 2 weeks and helium has to way america down."

“Eventually a divorcement statement was settled, and I would sojourn my dada and stepmother (and soon capable my younger fractional brothers) connected 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."

And what began arsenic a “white location with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a chamber with pictures of horses plastered connected each wall” yet turned to a location that “stank of smoke,” according to E.A.

"As the years went on, the backyard became truthful afloat of canine s--t that you couldn’t locomotion astir it," she recalled. "The fridge was bare oregon afloat of expired nutrient much often than not, and my parent spent much and much clip successful her large four-poster bed, poring implicit the Bible. One night, her affectional unit became carnal violence."

E.A. said she lived with her ma until the mediate of seventh grade, erstwhile her custody statement reversed and allowed her to determination to Los Angeles portion visiting Sacramento implicit weekends and summers. During her elder twelvemonth of precocious school, E.A. wrote that Susan had called her to accidental she was dying.

Susan died astatine property 49 successful 2002 aft battling bony cancer.

Tom has seldom spoken astir his divorce. In a 2020 interview, helium described it arsenic a "horribly achy time" and talked astir the breakup's interaction connected himself, E.A. and Colin.

"I couldn't beryllium a worse begetter and I couldn't beryllium a worse quality being," the Saving Private Ryan prima said on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. "I deliberation the occupation arsenic a parent, 1 of the things I've learned, is to effort to warrant a carefree beingness for your children for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. They should not beryllium burdened with the cares of the satellite until they tin grip them."

E! News has reached retired to Tom's rep and has not received remark astir E.A.'s memoir.