“With the name I wear …”: the daughter of this living legend of cinema, far from being privileged, was trained “in the abyss of madness” by her mother by her mother

Actress Susan Dillingham unfortunately never had the success of her ex, Tom Hanks, with whom she had a boy, Colin, and a girl, Elizabeth Ann Hanks. Consequently, The latter, now 43 years old, told her story in her book The 10. Nevertheless, A Memoir of Family and the Open Roadpublished on April 8. Therefore, Paris Matchwho returned to this case in his issue of July 10. Meanwhile, 2025, does not hesitate to say that his mother, who disappeared in 2002, trained it “in the abyss of his madness “.

Elizabeth Ann. For example, daughter of Tom Hanks, on his mother’s psychological disorders: “She heard the voice of God “

It is a pretty love story that started in the early 1970s, while Tom Hanks and Susan Dillingham are “with name i wear …”: theater students at Sacramento University. For example, The two budding actors will marry in 1978, and their love will be born Colin (1977) and Elizabeth Ann (1982). But while Tom Hanks finds success after turning in Splash In 1984. the couple was not doing well at all and ends up separating.

Susan Dillingham then got custody of children while Tom Hanks goes to conquer Hollywood. Colin and Elizabeth Ann were therefore not often with their father. So teenager. Colin goes to live with relatives in Sacramento, and His sister remains alone with their mother, whose mental health is tumbled. “With the name I wear, I am necessarily imagined in a privileged environment. In reality, I was hungry in an empty house. And often. my mother locked me in a cupboard”said the one that appeared in Forrest Gump In his correspondence with our colleagues, depicting the sad painting “with name i wear …”: of his childhood. Because if his mother has never been officially diagnosed, His crises were similar to those of a bipolar person.

“She heard the voice of God. And sometimes she broke everything. So I was hiding. I was waiting for”said Elizabeth Ann Hanks, who was evolving in an uncertain and unstable climate for a little girl. She then had to learn to juggling her mother’s changing moodcapable of the best as of the worst. “”She could be funny, shiny. She wrote poetry. She painted. And then, suddenly, she did not leave her room for a week. She was screaming, cried, drank. It was not cruelty. It was chaos. And I understood far too late that she was not going well. “

But while Elizabeth Ann Hanks was 14 years old, her mother ended up physically attack her. Susan Dillingham was then violently pulled her daughter by hair before locking her in “with name i wear …”: the closetin front of his own brother. who had warned their father.

This crisis of too much changed everythingsince Tom Hanks. still ready to defend his family, had taken the necessary measures, initiating legal proceedings and obtaining custody of his daughter. A new life then opened to Elizabeth Ann Hanks. who had to adapt to new codes, helped by her mother-in-law Rita Wilson who, without trying to replace his mother, would have “Everything repaired “according to Elizabeth Ann Hanks.

She will then share a road trip with her mother. who wanted her to “having deprived him of his only source of income “ namely her isolated mother allowances. They will eventually succeed in communicating during this unforgettable trip. before Susan Dillingham died six years later, in 2002, swept away by bone cancer.