Colin Hanks<\/a>\u2019 early years. <\/p>\nIn an excerpt obtained by People, she wrote: \u201cI 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\u2019s high school graduation, then my high school graduation. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have one picture of me standing between my parents. In it, my mother\u2019s best wig is slightly askew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elizabeth, who now goes by E.A. Hanks, was born in Burbank but has \u201cfew memories of the early years in Los Angeles\u201d because her mother moved them six hours away to Sacramento without warning shortly after the divorce. <\/p>\n
\nShe wrote: \u201cEventually 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShe recalled living in \u201ca white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall\u201d. <\/p>\n
\nHowever, as the years passed, she said her mother\u2019s mental health deteriorated. <\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cThe backyard became so full of dog s*** that you couldn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nElizabeth also described a turning point when \u201cone 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.\u201d After that, the custody arrangement reversed, with Elizabeth living primarily with Tom and visiting Sacramento on weekends and in the summer.<\/p>\n
\nTom\u2019s ex Samantha, whose real name was Susan Dillingham, died of lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 49. Elizabeth was 19 at the time.<\/p>\n
\nSamantha met Tom, now 68, in the mid-1970s while they were both studying theatre in Sacramento. They had their first child, Colin, now 47, in 1977 and married a year later. <\/p>\n
\nElizabeth was born in 1982, but the couple separated in 1985, finalising their divorce two years later.<\/p>\n
\nSamantha was granted primary custody, with the children visiting Tom on designated weekends and summers until their teenage years, when Elizabeth moved in with him full-time. Samantha never remarried, while Tom wed actress Rita Wilson in 1988. <\/p>\n
\nThe couple share two sons, Chet Hanks, 34, and Truman Hanks, now 29.<\/p>\n
\n\u2018The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road\u2019’ by E.A. Hanks is set for release on 8 April.<\/p>\n
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