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com Published: 23:26 GMT, 28 October 2024 | Updated: 23:38 GMT, 28 October 2024 e-mail 35 shares View comments Tom Hanks opened up about how he turned to isolation during his childhood when his late parents, Janet Marylyn Frager and Amos Mefford Hanks, divorced. The Concord, California-born actor, appearing on the podcast On Purpose with Jay Shetty , alluded to his own childhood when Shetty asked him about the underlying themes of home in his upcoming movie, Here . 'So many things lined up with me at my age,' the Academy Award winner, 68, said on the podcast.
'I was the third of four. 'My parents were very preoccupied with all certain, you know, like the positives and miseries of their lives I like to joke that they pioneered the marriage dissolution laws for the state of California , you know, back, they got divorced when only like Zsa Zsa Gabor ..
. got divorces.' Hanks explained how his family moved 'a lot' amid his parents' divorce and subsequent remarriages.
Tom Hanks, 68, opened up about how he turned to isolation during his childhood when his late parents, Janet Marylyn Frager and Amos Mefford Hanks, divorced The Concord, California-born actor (pictured in 1966) alluded to his own childhood when Shetty asked him a.
