E.A. Hanks, Tom Hanks' daughter from his first marriage, is opening up about a childhood filled with 'violence' and her dad gaining custody in memoir.

EA Hanks, the daughter of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife Susan Dillingham, has revealed shocking details about her childhood. Short for Elizabeth Anne, EA opened up about her turbulent early years which she says were filled with ‘violence’ and ‘deprivation’ by her mother 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,