Tom Hanks‘ girl, EA HANKSopens onto the deep link she shares with her father in her memoirs, “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road”, “

On the other hand, she recounts a turbulent childhood with her late mother, Susan Dillingham, marked by an emotional instability and a suspected mental illness.

Despite painful experiences, EA Hanks also remembers moments of care and warmth that she experienced as her mother.

For the daughter of Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Anne (EA) Hanks, Disneyland is not only a theme park but a backdrop to countless personal memories.

In his new Memoirs, the 42 -year -old writer is thinking about how the Californian destination was a power force throughout his life.

“Disneyland was more constant in my life than any house in which I have never lived,” she wrote, by AND! News. “I spent Thanksgiving there. I spent Christmas there. I spent more birthdays than I can count there.”

But what makes her really significant, explained EA, is the time she spent in the park with her father.

For her, Disneyland has become a place where their link has deepened over the years, and the idea of ​​losing it a day throws a bit bitter shadow on these memories.

“I cannot separate my emotional link with Disneyland from my emotional link with my father,” she explained, “because like many other California girls, I spent a lot of time in Disneyland with my father, and because one day he dies.”

In his book, EA explained that Disneyland is not only a place filled with nostalgia, but it is also there that his father lives more than one title.

His voice like Woody in “Toy Story” resonates in the park, woven in rides and goods. At 68, Tom’s presence is forever sewn in the Disneyland fabric, especially since he also portrayed Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks”.

“I thought of the first time I will come back to Disneyland after my father’s death-and how I will hear it when I hear Woody,” she shared. “At that time, it was as if it had already happened, that I was in a way touched what I would feel in the future, and I opened myself with emotion.”

However, this thought brings comfort. In EA, “Disneyland guarantees that part of my father will live forever.”

EA also noted that the happiest place of the earth has become “a monument for art, against death”.

“Walt’s vision survives, and part of my father too. Art survives,” she wrote.

Although EA shares a warm and loving link with his father, his relationship with his mother, Susan Dillingham, known professionally under the name of Samantha Lewes, was much more complicated.

In her book, she thought about a chaotic and often disturbing childhood, revealing that she suspects that her mother, who died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 49, could have suffered from an unmatched mental illness.

“To say that my mother was mentally ill, that she was perhaps” bipolar with episodes of extreme paranoia and illusion “, gives meaning to the nights sitting with her on an alley,” she wrote. “My mother sobbing and convinced that there were men inside the house, disturbing the walls, we are waiting in our rooms.”

EA shared that at the age of 14, she began to realize that her childhood was “not fair”.

She noted that there was often not enough food, school work is not taken care of and that it should not have been “woke up at three in the morning to hear an impromptu conference on the reason why yoga was the work of the devil.”

EA paints a living image of life with her deceased mother. While she clarified that Dillingham has never defeated her physically, she describes other disturbing behaviors that have left a lasting impact.

“She pushed me, shook me, pulled my hair and locked me in a closet once or twice … She told me that there were men who hid in her closet who waited for us to fall asleep and do horrible things,” said EA.