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Tom Hanks’ daughter reveals growing up with ‘a troubled mom, violence, and expired food’ after parents’ divorce | Hollywood News

Tom Hanks’ daughter reveals growing up with ‘a troubled mom, violence, and expired food’ after parents’ divorce | Hollywood News

EA Hanks, daughter of Tom Hanks and his first wife, Susan Dillingham, had a rough childhood, one filled with many unanswered questions surrounding her mother and her troubled past. Dillingham, who went by the stage name Samantha Lewes, battled personal demons before passing away from lung cancer in 2002. Hanks’ daughter, in her new book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, touches on various points of her childhood that remained hidden from the spotlight. The book traces her six-month road trip along Interstate 10, from Los Angeles to Palatka, Florida. Also read: Tom Hanks hails Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha, calls it a ‘glorious thing to behold’, says it needs to be ‘celebrated’ Elizabeth Anne was born into what she calls the “First (non-famous) Marriage.” Her parents met in the 1970s while studying theater at Sacramento State University. They fell in love and got married in 1978, later welcomed two children—Colin Hanks, now 47, and EA, now 42. However, their love story was far from peaceful. After five years of marriage, …