Tom Hanks ' only daughter is sharing rare insight into her childhood. E.A. Hanks (short for Elizabeth Anne Hanks) accused her late mother — the Oscar winner's ex-wife Susan Dillingham, who went by the stage name Samantha Lewes — of abuse following the couple’s divorce in the ‘80s.

Elizabeth Ann Hanks opened up about her turbulent early years which she says were filled with "violence" and "deprivation" in her upcoming book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and The Open Road.

The daughter of iconic actor Tom Hanks is opening up about her rocky childhood with her late mother and Hanks’ first wife, who she believes was bipolar. E.A. Hanks, now 42, has spent the last several years researching her mother Susan Dillingham,