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E.A. Hanks, Daughter of Tom Hanks, Reveals ‘Abusive,’ Traumatic Childhood

Tom Hanks' daughter E.A. Hanks is opening up about her abusive childhood.

Lewes would reportedly carry on about “dozens of miscarried babies, [E.A.’s] lost siblings,” and insinuate that she would eventually “join them in eternal limbo.” Lewes would drive her children “all over California to horse shows at ungodly hours” and “cut up cookie dough for my friends sleeping over and let me dye my hair every color I wanted.” She realized, she writes, that “there should have been more food in the house on a regular basis” and that being awoken in the middle of the night to hear “an impromptu lecture on why yoga was the devil’s work” was not the sort of thing that most kids are subjected to.

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