E.A. Hanks Explains Dad Tom Hanks’ Legal Struggle To Save Her From Troubled Mom

E.A. Hanks opened up to Access Hollywood about her new memoir “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road,” which details the abuse she says she experienced from her late mother Susan Dillingham. While openly talking about her childhood experiences, E.A. explained why her father, actor Tom Hanks, couldn’t save her from her troubled mother, sharing, “There was no aspect of how I grew up that was sort of mysterious to my dad. He was well aware of what was going on. As readers of the book will see, there’s a lot of history in this book about all the parts of America that the [Interstate] 10 covers. There was not quite enough room for the nuances of family law in California in the late 1980s, but which is to say that there was an extended legal sort of effort to get me out of my mother’s house and away from these circumstances. But the kind of peculiarities meant that you needed receipts of physical violence. And up until then, there was really nothing we can do. But once my mother crossed that Rubicon is when, as I depict in the book, I moved to Los Angeles.” “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road” is out now.