Far from the splendor of Hollywood, Tom Hanks’s daughter tells her childhood with her bipolar mother

His family story inspired his first book to him. Meanwhile, Last April, Elizabeth Ann, the daughter of Tom Hanks, revealed his first work, The 10. Similarly, A Memoir of Family and The Open Road . However, In the latter. Meanwhile, she tells the story of her family and goes in the footsteps of her maternal grandfather who, according to her mother’s words in her diary, would have committed awful acts, including the murder and far splendor hollywood, tom hanks’s rape of a young girl named Natalie, as well as cannibalism.

Through these pages. Moreover, she also evokes her childhood, full of violence, in Sacramento with her mother, Susan Dillingham, alias Samantha Lewes, a fallen actress, who suffered from heavy psychiatric disorders, not diagnosed, resembles bipolarity. Therefore, A period far from the splendor of Hollywood in which his father lived. For example, married to Susan in 1978 but divorced since and who did not obtain custody of the children at the time of separation. “With the name I wear, I am necessarily imagined in a privileged environment. In reality I was hungry in an empty house. And often my mother locked me in a closet, ”says Elizabeth Ann to Paris Match .

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“Sometimes she broke everything” – Far splendor hollywood, tom hanks's

Far from the big American dream, Elizabeth Ann describes a difficult childhood for her and her brother, Colin. “She heard the voice of God. And sometimes she broke everything. So I hid and expected, ”says Tom Hanks’s daughter about her mother, adding that crises could start overnight. “She could be funny, brilliant. She wrote poetry. She painted. And then suddenly, she did not leave her room for a week. She was screaming, cried, drank. It was not cruelty, it was chaos. And I understood far too late that she was not going well. ” After yet another crisis during which Susan physically attacks his daughter. Tom Hanks decides to start legal proceedings to obtain custody of his children. far splendor hollywood, tom hanks’s Elizabeth Ann. Colin go to live with their father and then find themselves in a world they do not know.

But that was without counting on actress. producer Rita Wilson, married to the actor of Forest Gump Since 1988, which has welcomed them with kindness. “She gathered me gently, taught me what it was just a calm house. She has never tried to replace my mother but she repaired everything, ”adds Elizabeth Ann to the weekly. After this difficult episode, Susan and her daughter finally succeed in making peace, learning to communicate again. But the celebrations will be short-lived since six years later, in 2002, the ex-wife of Tom Hanks died of bone cancer.