TOM HANKS' GUILT 'I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER DAD'

Tom's daughter EA Banks has opened up old family wounds in her memoir

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For much of the '80s, Tom Hanks was on track to becoming Hollywood's next leading man.

Appearing in classics such as Splash, Bachelor Party and Big, audiences couldn't get enough of the goofy yet charismatic all-American man.

However, at home, his family life was crumbling. So is outlined in his eldest daughter, EA Hanks' recent memoir The 10: A Memoir Of Family And The Open Road. In it, EA (short for Elizabeth Anne), 42, frankly recounts her life from her childhood through to her teens, where she claims she was subjected to years of "confusion, violence, [and] deprivation" at the hands of her mother, Tom's first wife Susan Dillingham.

According to EA, the mistreatment started following her parents' divorce in 1985, during which Susan won primary custody of her and brother Colin and moved them from Los Angeles to Sacramento, without telling their father.

"My dad came to pick us up from school and we're not there," she writes in the book, adding that he was forced to track them down after he hadn’t heard from them in two weeks.