Tom Hanks says 'we all come from checkered' lives amid daughter's memoir claiming abusive childhood

Tom Hanks has his daughter's back. 

During an interrogation with Access Hollywood connected Wednesday, the Oscar Award-winning histrion got candid astir girl E.A. Hanks' determination to spell nationalist with her abuse allegations against his ex-wife successful her memoir, "The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road."

"She's a knockout, ever has been," Hanks said of the girl helium shared with the precocious Susan Dillingham. "You know, it's a pridefulness due to the fact that I deliberation — she shares it with me. She's precise unfastened astir what the process is."

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Tom Hanks, with girl E.A. Hanks, is supporting his daughter's determination to spell nationalist with maltreatment allegations against his erstwhile wife. (Getty Images)

"If you've had kids, you recognize that you spot who they are erstwhile they're astir six weeks old," helium continued. "Their property is connected show close there. Their temper, the mode they spot the satellite is demonstrated successful their assemblage connection and connected their face."

"We each travel from checkered, cracked lives, each of us."

"I'm not amazed that my girl had the wherewithal arsenic good arsenic the curiosity — arsenic good as, I'm going to accidental possibly a shoot-herself-in-the-foot benignant of wherewithal — successful bid to analyse this happening that I deliberation she was incredibly honorable about."

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E.A. Hanks published her memoir, "The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road," successful April. (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

"We each travel from checkered, cracked lives, each of us," helium concluded. 

E.A., whose initials basal for Elizabeth Anne, wrote astir her analyzable puerility marred by her parents’ divorcement and a parent she claims could beryllium emotionally and physically "violent." 

Tom Hanks and ex-wife Susan Dillingham divorced successful 1987. (Photo by Stewart Cook/Sony Pictures via Getty Images)

After her parents' divorce, her ma got afloat custody and moved them to Sacramento. 

"As the years went on, the backyard became truthful afloat of canine s--- that you couldn’t locomotion astir it, the location stank of smoke," she wrote successful an excerpt obtained by People magazine, adding she believes her mother, though undiagnosed, suffered from bipolar upset and episodes of utmost paranoia and delusions. 

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"The fridge was bare oregon afloat of expired nutrient much often than not, and my parent spent much and much clip successful her large four-poster bed, poring implicit the Bible."

E.A. recalled 1 nighttime erstwhile her mother's affectional unit "became physical."

The histrion said helium has a consciousness of "pride" erstwhile discussing his daughter's memoir. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP)

"One night, her affectional unit became carnal violence, and successful the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, close smack successful the mediate of the seventh grade," she wrote. "My custody statement fundamentally switched — present I lived successful L.A. and visited Sacramento connected the weekends and successful the summer."

E.A. added that successful her elder twelvemonth of precocious school, her parent "called to accidental she was dying."

Dillingham died of lung crab successful 2002 astatine the property of 49. 

Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson contributed to this post.