Whereas on the premiere of his new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, on Could 26, the Oscar winner addressed the allegations of emotional and bodily abuse his daughter leveled in opposition to her late mom, actress Samantha Lewes.

“I am not shocked that my daughter had the wherewithal, in addition to the curiosity, to look at this factor that I believe she was extremely sincere about,” Hanks informed Entry Hollywood. “All of us come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us.”

“She’s a knockout, all the time has been,” he added. “When you’ve had youngsters, you understand that you simply see who they’re after they’re about 6 weeks outdated.”

In her memoir revealed April 8, E.A. — whose full title is Elizabeth Anne Hanks — particulars a turbulent upbringing following her mother and father’ 1987 divorce. Hanks and Dillingham tied the knot in January 1978, and their divorce was finalized in 1987. Dillingham acquired major custody, and the children had designated weekend and summer season visits with Hanks.

Throughout that point, E.A. alleged that her mom, born Susan Dillingham, subjected her to “emotional violence” and “bodily violence” throughout her childhood.

“I might go to my dad and stepmother (and shortly sufficient my youthful half brothers) on the weekends and through summers, however from 5 to 14, years stuffed with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love,” the 43-year-old wrote in an excerpt from the e-book, beforehand obtained by PEOPLE.

E.A. recollects their Sacramento dwelling as more and more chaotic, describing a house that was oftentimes unsanitary and void of the essential requirements.

“Because the years went on, the yard turned so filled with canine s–t that you simply could not stroll round it, the home stank of smoke. The fridge was naked or filled with expired meals most of the time, and my mom spent increasingly time in her massive four-poster mattress, poring over the Bible.”

E.A. alleges that the abuse escalated when she was in seventh grade, prompting her transfer to Los Angeles to dwell along with her father.

“One evening, her emotional violence turned bodily violence, and within the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, proper smack in the course of the seventh grade,” she wrote. “My custody association principally switched — now I lived in L.A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summertime.”

Regardless of the ache, E.A. depicted her mom as an advanced girl, who she believes suffered from untreated psychological sickness. Throughout her senior yr of highschool, E.A. stated her mom referred to as to inform her she was dying. Although by no means formally recognized, she believes Dillingham had bipolar dysfunction with episodes of “excessive paranoia and delusion.”

Whereas E.A. opens up in regards to the troublesome components of her previous, she additionally honors the individuals who helped her heal, together with her father and stepmom, Rita Wilson, whom she thinks of as greater than only a stepmother.

“Rita’s probably not a stepmother, she’s my different mom,” E.A. informed PEOPLE shortly earlier than her memoir was revealed.

“Once I say my mother and father, I actually imply my dad and Rita, as a result of they have been collectively since earlier than I can actually bear in mind. They have been collectively since I used to be 4 or 5.”