EXCLUSIVE: TOM HANKS “HEARTBROKEN” OVER DAUGHTER’S BRUTAL MEMOIR: “CHILDHOOD FILLED WITH CONFUSION, VIOLENCE, AND DEPRIVATION”

“He’s not denying the stories — he just wishes they weren’t so public,” says insider

Tom Hanks has spent decades crafting the image of America’s Dad — but now his daughter is pulling back the curtain on what life with Dad was really like… and it’s not a Hollywood fairytale.

E.A. Hanks, the fiercely candid 42-year-old daughter of Tom and his first wife Samantha Lewes, has just released her debut memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family And The Open Road — and it’s sending emotional shockwaves through Hollywood.

“I am a kid from the First (non-famous) Marriage,” she writes. “Years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation… and love.”

In one passage, Elizabeth recalls growing up primarily with her mother in Sacramento after her parents’ 1985 divorce, describing a household slipping into disarray.

“The backyard became so full of dog s—t that you couldn’t walk around it. The house stank of smoke. The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not,” she writes.

She remembers her mother spending long hours in bed, poring over the Bible as her mental health declined — while weekends and summers were spent in Los Angeles with her famous father, his second wife Rita Wilson, and her younger half-brothers Chet and Truman.

While the memoir doesn’t paint Tom as a villain, it does offer a jarringly human look at the man so often seen as America’s moral compass.

“This book doesn’t attack Tom,” a family source tells Naughty But Nice. “But it does show that things were messy, especially in the early years. It’s brutally honest — and that honesty hurts.”

Insiders say Tom is deeply saddened by the book’s release, not because he disputes the content — but because it exposes personal family pain he’s long tried to keep private.

“Tom isn’t denying a word of it,” the insider adds. “He just wishes it didn’t have to be out in the world like this. He loves his daughter, but this has been a hard one to swallow.”

Behind the scenes, friends say the Oscar-winner is grappling with guilt and grief over how the past is now playing out in headlines — and bookstores.

“Tom’s image is squeaky clean,” says a longtime associate. “This doesn’t smear him. But it strips away the polish — and that’s hard for someone who’s always tried to do the right thing.”

As for E.A. Hanks? She’s unflinching in her truth.

“It wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t sanitized. But it was mine,” she writes.

And now, it belongs to the public too.