Tom Hanks’ daughter reveals dark details about her childhood in new memoir

Elizabeth Ann Hanks, daughter of Tom Hanks, has released her memoir titled “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road”, which explores her family’s past and shares details of her childhood.

At 42 years old, Elizabeth Ann Hanks, daughter of Tom Hanks, shared insights into her troubled childhood with her late mother, Susan Dillingham, in her new memoir “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road”.

The book follows Elizabeth on a solo journey living in a van across the U.S. in 2019. In addition to her family’s story, the work also discusses political and sociological issues in the country.

According to an excerpt published by People magazine, Tom Hanks’ daughter opened up about her parents’ traumas and how she now understands her relationship with her mother.

“My father was traumatized by his childhood, by his family’s divorce, and by a series of stepfathers and siblings. The love between my parents was that of two hurt children trying to climb out of a hole together,” Elizabeth wrote.

Susan Dillingham, Tom Hanks’ first wife, died at age 49 from lung cancer while battling a series of addictions.

Elizabeth lived with her mother following her parents’ divorce in 1987. They stayed together through her teenage years in Sacramento, California. Tom later gained custody of his daughter after a series of troubling incidents.

“One night, her emotional abuse turned physical, and after that I moved to Los Angeles, midway through seventh grade,” Tom Hanks’ daughter wrote. She admitted she was afraid to tell her father how bad things had gotten.

In an Instagram post about the book, Elizabeth reflected on the outcome of her journey: “The stories we tell about where we come from cannot be separated from the stories we tell about who we are.”

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