Cancer, son's drug addiction and coronavirus: all the trials in the life of Tom Hanks

Last week it became known that Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson had contracted the coronavirus. However, later the actors reported that they managed to overcome the disease. We decided to recall the difficult love story of the star couple and found out that they had to go through much more serious trials than the infection that spread around the world.

Tom Hanks' parents divorced when he was still a child. This affected the boy's psyche: he became withdrawn due to constant moving and changing schools, as well as endless "new moms" who came one after another. As a result, Tom promised himself that he would be the perfect father for his children and would never leave the family.

And when his girlfriend Samantha Lewis unexpectedly became pregnant, the actor immediately married her. Later, he would call this marriage very difficult. Tom took on any role, just to earn some money, and Samantha reproached him for not seeing the children. When the couple were on the verge of divorce, and Hanks was completely exhausted, fate gave him a meeting with Rita Wilson.

Rita and Tom met in 1981, but then disappeared from each other's lives for several years. In 1985, on the set of the film "Volunteers", they met again and realized that they could not separate.

Rita Wilson waited three years until her lover filed for divorce from his wife. After a long divorce process, the actor immediately proposed to his beloved. But everything turned out to be not so simple: Wilson was born into a patriarchal Greek family, and Hanks first had to find an approach to each of the relatives of the future spouse, as well as accept Orthodoxy.

Later he will say:

The side effects of marrying Rita turned out to be very good. If Hanks had previously taken on any roles and was mentally exhausted, now his career was at its peak. Successful projects followed one after another — "The Big One", "Sleepless in Seattle", "Philadelphia", "Forrest Gump", "Apollo 13".Wilson, on the contrary, began to act less often. She was engaged in raising the sons of Chester and Truman, but she still helped her husband: she worked on the images of his characters, and later together with him opened the production company Playtone.

In 2014, it became known that the son of one of the strongest couples in Hollywood, Chester, suffers from drug addiction. Around the same time, doctors made a terrible diagnosis to Rita — she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Celebrities coped together with the trials that fell to their lot. They persuaded their son to start treatment.

Rita Wilson eventually recovered, too. Tom tried to support his wife during this difficult period: he put several important projects on pause and for nine months helped his wife to fight the disease and recover from operations.

Wilson, reporting that the disease was still defeated, first of all expressed her gratitude to the star spouse:

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been married for more than 30 years. According to celebrities, they are very happy. The actor admits that he and his wife understand each other without words and that she is for him both a lover, a friend, and a mother.For Rita's sake, he changed his religion, left his job during her illness, and she, in turn, always supported him and was able to make a real star out of a novice actor exhausted by work. In an interview , Hanks confessed:

On March 17, it became known that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, infected with coronavirus, underwent treatment. Now they are quarantined in a rented house in Australia and feel much better.