Tom Hanks has spoken out for the first time about his daughter’s childhood abuse claims.
In April 2025, E.A Hanks released her memoir: The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road – which contained claims of childhood abuse.
E.A (Elizabeth Anne) is Hanks’ only daughter that he shared with his ex-wife, Samantha Lewes. They also had a son together, Colin Hanks.
The couple divorced in 1987 and Lewes sadly died in 2002, aged 49, from lung cancer.
The actor then went on to remarry Rita Wilson in 1988 whom he is still with today and whom he shares two sons with, Chet and Truman.
E.A and Colin had a very different upbringing to their half-siblings however, as their mother suffered with poor mental health.
Opening up about her childhood, E.A wrote: “Eventually a divorce agreement was settled, and I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half brothers) on the weekends and during summers, 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 sh*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.”
Now, for the first time, the legendary actor has spoke out about these claims.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, Hanks said: “It’s a pride because, I think, she shares it with me, she’s been very open about what the process is.”
“I’m not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal, as well as the curiosity, as well as, I’m going to say, perhaps, the shoot herself in the foot, wherewithal, in order to examine this thing that she was incredibly honest about.
“We all come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us, despite the fact that part of it would seem as though, she would work for some international well-known firm with a copyrighted last name.
“She knows that and she leads into absolutely everything of it and I think anyone who does that is a bold journalistic literary mind and I’m thrilled I can say the same thing about my daughter.”