Tom Hanks has spoken out on daughter E.A. Hanks’ bombshell memoir about her troubled childhood.

The “Forrest Gump” actor, 68, opened up about the book, “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road,” for the first time during the red carpet premiere of his film “The Phoenician Scheme.”

“I’m not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal as well as the curiosity to examine this thing that I think she was incredibly honest about,” Hanks told “Access Hollywood” May 26. “We all come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us.”

“She’s a knockout, always has been,” he continued. “If you’ve had kids, you realize that you see who they are when they’re about 6 weeks old.”

“Their personality is on display right there,” the “Cast Away” actor added, “their temper, the way they see the world is demonstrated in their body language and on their face.” 

E.A. Hanks, who the “Big” star had with his late ex-wife Samantha Lewes, published her surprising memoir in April.

Short for Elizabeth Anne, E.A. opened up about her rocky early years and the “violence” and “deprivation” she experienced growing up as the only daughter of a Hollywood icon.

“I am a kid from the First (non-famous) Marriage,” Hanks’ 43-year-old daughter wrote. “My only memories of my parents in the same place at the same time are Colin’s high school graduation, then my high school graduation.”

“I have one picture of me standing between my parents,” she added. “In it, my mother’s best wig is slightly askew.”

E.A.’s actress mother, whose real name was Susan Dillingham, passed away from cancer in 2002 at 49.

Dillingham and Hanks married in 1978 but separated in 1985, at which point she took E.A. and son, Colin to live in Sacramento. The couple officially divorced in 1987.

Although E.A. and Colin initially lived with their mother, the “custody arrangement basically switched” after Dillingham allegedly began physically abusing her daughter.

“The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible,” Hanks’ daughter wrote.

“One night, her emotional violence became physical violence,” she claimed, “and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade.”

As for the title of her bombshell memoir, E.A. revealed that it was inspired by a six-month transcontinental journey she took in 2019 following a similar trip with her mother along the same route years before.

“When I was 14, my mother and I drove across America along Interstate 10 to Florida,” she explained, “in a Winnebago that lumbered along the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical.”

“The 10” also followed E.A. as she sought to learn more about her late mom’s complicated life. 

Hanks’ daughter also touched upon her relationship with her stepmother, Rita Wilson, and her half-brothers, Chet and Truman, in the book.

Hanks and Wilson, 68, married in 1988, one year after his divorce from Dillingham was finalized. They welcomed Chet, 34, in 1990 and Truman, 29, in 1995.

“Rita’s not really a stepmother, she’s my other mother,” E.A. told People shortly before her memoir was published. “When I say my parents, I really mean my dad and Rita, because they’ve been together since before I can really remember. They’ve been together since I was 4 or 5.”