Tom Hanks‘ second wife Rita Wilson revealed how her relationship with their blended brood of four children has changed since the passing of her Greek mother Dorothy Tzigkou.
The 69-year-old actress-singer will ‘never forget’ the anguish of losing her ‘best friend’ in 2014 following a four-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
‘I thought I had asked her everything that I could possibly want to ask her, still there’s things I wish I had asked her, that I wish I had known,’ Wilson (born Margarita Ibrahimoff) said in her People cover story on Wednesday.
‘For my kids nowadays, I’m probably a bit more unfiltered with them. I just tell them things all the time, and we usually get a lot of laughs out of it.’
The Jury of One songstress just released a music video for her new single Your Mother, featuring Super 8 footage of Dorothy, in which she sang: ‘I know it’s hard for you to see / There was someone else she used to be.
‘If you listen you will learn / Every time the seasons turn / That you’ll never have another / Your mother.’
Tom Hanks’ second wife Rita Wilson (2-L, pictured in 2020) revealed how her relationship with their blended brood of four children has changed since the passing of her Greek mother Dorothy Tzigkou
The 69-year-old actress-singer will ‘never forget’ the anguish of losing her ‘best friend’ in 2014 following a four-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease
Wilson hopes everyone will call their mothers and ask them questions, because it really about ‘that desire to just feel that you’re really known, that there’s no barriers to being with your family and with your children in that way, so that you can be honest.’
The Last Thing He Told Me guest star and her 68-year-old husband’s son Chet Hanks recently moved to the Jayco Eagle RV trailer park in Nashville, Tennessee while pursuing his country music dreams alongside his Something Out West bandmate Drew Arthur.
Last month, footage of Hanks proudly watching the 35-year-old Running Point actor perform at Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California went viral.
The grandparents-of-three’s 30-year-old son Truman Hanks keeps busy working as a camera loader and his upcoming films include the Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein rom-com Office Romance.
Last Thursday, the Cali-born couple quietly celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary without sharing the usual gushing post on their social media.
Hanks was still married to his first wife Samantha Lewes when he originally met Wilson when she guest-starred in one episode of his cross-dressing ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies back in 1981.
The two-time Oscar winner legally separated from Lewes (born Susan Dillingham) in 1985 before their seven-year marriage ended in divorce two years later.
The Too Much actress then became stepmother to the ex-couple’s 48-year-old son Colin Hanks and 43-year-old daughter E.A. Hanks.
Hanks and Wilson will both appear in Lawrence Kasdan’s Martin Short documentary Marty, Life Is Short premiering next Tuesday on Netflix.
‘There’s things I wish I had asked her, that I wish I had known,’ Wilson said in her People cover story on Wednesday. ‘For my kids nowadays, I’m probably a bit more unfiltered with them. I just tell them things all the time, and we usually get a lot of laughs out of it’ (pictured Tuesday)
The Jury of One songstress just released a music video for her new single Your Mother, featuring Super 8 footage of Dorothy
Wilson sang: ‘I know it’s hard for you to see / There was someone else she used to be / If you listen you will learn / Every time the seasons turn / That you’ll never have another / Your mother’
The Last Thing He Told Me guest star hopes everyone will call their mothers and ask them questions, because it really about ‘that desire to just feel that you’re really known, that there’s no barriers to being with your family and with your children in that way’
Wilson and her 68-year-old husband’s son Chet Hanks recently moved to the Jayco Eagle RV trailer park in Nashville, Tennessee while pursuing his country music dreams alongside his Something Out West bandmate Drew Arthur (pictured February 1)
Last month, footage of Hanks proudly watching the 35-year-old Running Point actor perform at Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California went viral
The grandparents-of-three’s 30-year-old son Truman Hanks keeps busy working as a camera loader and his upcoming films include the Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein rom-com Office Romance (pictured in 2023)
Last Thursday, the Cali-born couple quietly celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary without sharing the usual gushing post on their social media (pictured April 15)
Hanks was still married to his first wife Samantha Lewes when he originally met Wilson when she guest-starred in one episode of his cross-dressing ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies back in 1981
On Wednesday, the Sleepless in Seattle alum wrote that she was ‘grateful’ to land the role of late matriarch Beverly De Angelis – who dies from cancer – in HBO Max’s one-hour drama pilot How to Survive Without Me
Wilson will next appear in the Broadway comedic play Celebrity Autobiography for three shows running May 16-17 at the Shubert Theatre in New York City
On Wednesday, the Sleepless in Seattle alum wrote that she was ‘grateful’ to land the role of late matriarch Beverly De Angelis – who dies from cancer – in HBO Max’s one-hour drama pilot How to Survive Without Me alongside Ray Romano, Joshua Jackson and Kaley Cuoco.
Wilson will next appear in the Broadway comedic play Celebrity Autobiography for three shows running May 16-17 at the Shubert Theatre in New York City alongside Scott Adsit, Mario Cantone, Jackie Hoffman, Ben Mankiewicz, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Nia Vardalos.
The Hollywood Walk of Famer has been hard at work promoting her sixth studio album Sound of a Woman, which dropped last Friday, featuring a collection of songs about what it means to be a woman.
Wilson – who pulls 167,519 monthly listeners on Spotify – is scheduled to kick off her 12-date The Sound of a Woman Tour on June 11 at City Winery Boston in Massachusetts.
