2 weeks Ago By Caroline Gaspich
Tom Hanks' daughter E.A. detailed her turbulent childhood filled with "confusion, violence, and deprivation" in her newly released memoir.
This week E.A. Hanks teased her upcoming memoir titled ' The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road ' where she recounts her life-changing journey traveling alone on a cross-country road trip.
During her travels, the author was on a mission to connect with her late mother Susan Dillingham and further understand her mom's complicated and troubling past. And as E.A.
rehashed her relationship with her late mother, she also spoke about her childhood with her father, Hollywood star Tom Hanks . The former Forrest Gump actor welcomed E.A.
during his first marriage with the actress during their nine-year-long relationship which lasted from 1978 to 1987. The former couple later divorced in 1987 citing their "youth" and the personal difficulties for reason of the breakdown of their love. In a snippet of her memoir shared with People , she wrote: "I am a kid from the First (non-famous) Marriage.
My only memories of my parents in the same place at the same time are Colin’s high school graduation, then my high school graduation. I have one picture of me standing between my parents. In it, my mother’s best wig is slightly askew.
" E.A. went on to share that after her parent's divorce, her mother Susan took her and her older brother to live in Sacramento, California.
She explained that after their divorce was settled, she would visit her father Tom and stepmother on the weekends and during the summer months. She shared: "But from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl. 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 s--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." E.
A. went on to reveal: "One night, her emotional violence became physical violence, and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade. My custody arrangement basically switched — now I lived in L.
A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summer. When I was 14, my mother and I drove across America along Interstate 10 to Florida, in a Winnebago that lumbered along the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical.
My senior year of high school, she called to say she was dying." E.A.
's mother Susan later died from lung cancer at the age of 49 years old back in 2002. Ahead of her tragic death, the actress struggled with a history of mental illness and addiction. Although her mother was not diagnosed, E.
A. shared that she believes she she was bipolar with episodes of extreme paranoia. E.
A.'s forthcoming memoir is set to release on April 8 and will be published by Simon & Schuster. Click here to follow the Mirror US on Google News to stay up to date with all the latest news, sport and entertainment stories.
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