How did Tom Hanks' first wife Susan Dillingham die? As daughter accuses her of abuse

daughter, Elizabeth Ann, has In a shocking revelation, Elizabeth, also known as EA, opened up about the "emotionally and physically violent" behaviour she alleges her late mother, Susan Dillingham, who used the stage name Samantha Lewes, showed while she was growing up.

The emotional account from the writer has shed light on the darker side of her childhood and the challenges she faced while growing up in a turbulent household, despite her father’s fame.

During her poignant confession, EA opened up describing her years from ages 5 to 14 in Sacramento as a time filled with "confusion, violence, deprivation, and love."

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When did Tom and his ex-wife Susan marry?

Actor . At the time, Tom was still chasing his career in Hollywood. But it wasn't meant to be, as after nine years of marriage, the couple called it quits, separating in 1987. Their marriage was a part of Tom's early life, before he rose to fame and became a household name.

How many children did they have together?

The pair had two children during their marriage: Elizabeth Ann and Colin Hanks. Following their separation, the children lived mostly with their mother, although Tom was able to see them over the weekends. Later, the Forrest Gump star married Rita Wilson and had two more children, Chet and Truman Hanks.

How did Susan die?

Susan tragically passed away from bone cancer in 2002 at the age of 49. Elizabeth Ann was just 19 years old when her mother died, which she says has had a profound impact on her life. In her memoir, EA reflects on the complicated relationship she had with her late mother, including claims of neglect and abuse during their time in Sacramento, where they had moved after Tom and Samantha’s split.

In her new book The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road, EA opened up, revealing how she claims Samantha had bipolar though she was never diagnosed, and her dark past. The excerpt from the upcoming memoir, reads: "I was born in Burbank, but after my parents split up, my mother took my older brother and me to live in Sacramento. I have few memories of the early years in Los Angeles.

"Eventually 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. I lived in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall.

"As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog s**t that you couldn’t 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. One 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. My custody arrangement basically switched — now I lived in L.A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summer. When I was 14, my mother and I drove across America along Interstate 10 to Florida, in a Winnebago that lumbered along the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical."

The excerpt ends with: "My senior year of high school, she called to say she was dying."

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