Tom Hanks, Bursting with Pride, Supports His Daughter's Raw, Revealing Memoir
Tom Hanks, Bursting with Pride, Supports His Daughter's Raw, Revealing Memoir Vanity Fair . More than one person, surely, has looked at Tom Hanks and thought, “Oh yeah, Father’s Day is just around the corner, I better make sure to send a card.” His recent remarks about his actual daughter E.A. Hanks’ recent memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road , are peak sweet dad stuff, even while discussing the book’s sometimes difficult subject matter. In the book , E.A., now 43, describes physical and emotional abuse from her mother, Samantha Lewes, after she and Tom divorced in 1987 shortly before she turned 5. After the split, Lewes got primary custody of E.A. and older brother Colin Hanks in Sacramento. In the book, E.A. describes her life from the ages of 5 to 14, when in the aftermath of emotional abuse turning physical and she moved to Los Angeles to live with her father, as “years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, an...
