Tom Hanks’ daughter, E.A. Hanks, reveals rocky childhood was filled with ‘violence, deprivation’ and ‘expired food’
nypost.comE.A. Hanks, the daughter of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife Susan Dillingham, has revealed shocking details about her childhood, which she says was filled with “violence” and “deprivation.” Short for Elizabeth Anne, E.A.
opened up about her turbulent early years in her upcoming book, “The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road.” An account of the six-month road trip she took in 2019 on Interstate 10, from Los Angeles to Palatka, Florida, where her mom used to live, “The 10” follows E.A.
as she seeks to know more about her late mother’s complicated and troubled life. Dillingham, an actress who went by the stage name Samantha Lewes at the start of her career, died in 2002 from lung cancer at the age of 49.
As her now 42-year-old daughter claimed in “The 10,” Dillingham physically abused E.A. and neglected her and her brother, Colin Hanks.“I am a kid from the First (non-famous) Marriage.
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