Tom Hanks’ daughter recalls actor having to ‘track down’ her and brother amid mother’s mental health troubles
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Tom Hanks’ daughter opens up on mental illness in family
- E.A. Hanks, the daughter of Tom Hanks and his first wife, Susan Dillingham, has revealed her father had to track her and her brother, Colin, down after their mother took them out of school for two weeks without informing him.
- Dillingham and Hanks divorced in 1987, with Dillingham initially having primary custody of the children.
- E.A. Hanks' upcoming memoir details her mother's struggles with undiagnosed mental health issues, presumed to be bipolar disorder, including paranoia and delusions.
- The memoir also recounts Dillingham's increasing neglect, which led to a custody change, with E.A. eventually moving in with her father after an incident of physical violence.
- E.A. Hanks embarked on a road trip to her mother's family's home in Florida to learn more about her before she died of lung cancer in 2002.