Elsewhere in the memoir, E.A. detailed a confrontation between her and her mother, which ultimately brought her closer with her brother Colin Hanks. (Tom also shares sons Chet Hanks and Truman Hanks with wife Rita Wilson.)
“He turned to me. ‘So. Last night was rough,’” she recalled of the day after the altercation. “We compared what she had been yelling at us about. I think I started crying. I told him she had hit me. He asked me if I wanted to go home after school, and I said no. My brother told me he would take care of it. And he did, as he has always taken care of me.”
Later that day, she made her father aware of the physical abuse, which kickstarted the process of reversing the custody arrangement.
“I told him,” E.A. recounted, “I didn’t want to go home.”
E! News has reached out to Tom’s rep for comment on E.A.’s memoir but has not heard back.
The Oscar winner previously looked back on his divorce in 2020, characterizing it as a “horribly painful time.”
“I couldn’t be a worse father and I couldn’t be a worse human being,” he said onIn Depth with Graham Bensinger at the time. “I think the job as a parent, one of the things I’ve learned, is to try to guarantee a carefree life for your children for as long as possible. They should not be burdened with the cares of the world until they can handle them.”