Tom Hanks, known for his role in Saving Private Ryan, had two children – Elizabeth and her brother Colin with his first wife, the late Samantha Lewes.
Later in life, Hanks became a father again, this time welcoming sons Chet and Truman with his current wife, actress and producer Rita Wilson.
In an excerpt featured in People, E.A. shared: “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.”
“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,” she continued.
“I lived in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall.”
“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.”
“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 senior year of high school, she called to say she was dying.”
If you’re curious to explore her full story, the wait is almost over. Her memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, will officially be released on Tuesday, April 8.