Tom Hanks Spilled The Secrets Of His Turb.ulent 30-Year Marriage To Rita Wilson

[Music] tom hanks and rita wilson appear to have the perfect hollywood partnership their long-lasting romance is both cute and very touching in places but underneath the glamour of an a-list lifestyle the couple are both just fairly ordinary people furthermore their marriage has weathered some serious ups and downs over the years believe it or not hanks apparently had a crush on wilson long before they met in the 1970s she was starring on tv show the brady bunch as pat conway the teenage hanks happened to see her and was very much taken the star probably never imagined though that he'd eventually end up marrying her but hanks and wilson didn't meet until 1981 that year both of them were cast in an abc sitcom called bosom buddies and sparks flew though at that point hanks was already married and a father in 1977 his son colin was born and not long after that hanks wed colin's mother samantha louise hanks was also still married when he and wilson co-starred again this time in the 1985 film volunteers but that didn't stop them feeling an attraction to each other 20 years later the actor told entertainment tonight when we first looked at each other there was definitely a kind of hey this is the place i felt that anyway by the end of 1986 hanks and wilson were dating and had appeared in public together in front of photographers to boot the former was still technically married to louise but they had separated hanks apparently had some anxieties about this especially since the children he'd had with louise were still quite young in 2013 hanks told the daily express newspaper a broken marriage meant i was sentencing my own kids to the sort of feelings i had at their age i was just too young and insecure for marriage i was 23 and my son colin was already two when i'm married for the first time i was not really ready to take on those responsibilities meanwhile the divorce between hanks and louise was eventually finalized in 1987. the two of them reportedly remained more or less friends right up until louise death from bone cancer in 2002 and the latter never remarried the two children from their relationship also seemed to easily accept wilson as a stepmother in april 1988 wilson and hanks tied the knot and everything seemed ideal for a while while accepting a golden globe award in the following january hanks declared i married a greek babe she was born right here in california right here in hollywood but her folks are great she's marvelous rita wilson thank you babe for marrying me in august 1990 the couple had their first child together chet hanks and for the next few years the actor continued to gush over his wife during award ceremonies when accepting his oscar for forrest gump in 1995 for example hank said i am standing here because the woman i share my life with has taught me and demonstrates for me every day just what love is not long afterwards wilson gave birth to their second child truman theodore hanks who was born the day after christmas in 1995. meanwhile by this point the married pair had established themselves as a true hollywood power couple two years earlier they had appeared together in the hit film sleepless in seattle albeit playing brother and sister and hanks continued to credit wilson for his success as time went on speaking to oprah in 2001 he said i was able to construct a number of things in philadelphia because of my relationship with wilson the way my character felt about his lover is the way i feel about mine the same was true when i played forrest gump who loved ginny without my connection with wilson i don't know how i would have been able to connect with what gump was going through oprah told hanks i've never heard one negative thing about your marriage what keeps it so real the star that answered that it is real but let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is wilson and i are not fodder for a lot of those stories because we're not glamorous targets who want that kind of attention hanks went on everyone says you have to work at relationships sometimes you've got to work but if you're working 60 of the time and only enjoying it 40 we deal with what has to be dealt with but there is something natural to the foundation of our marriage i am now at the point where i can't imagine it any other way then oprah asked if wilson had been the first person you were with would you have been ready for this and hanks answered no the success of our relationship was a matter of timing maturity and our willingness to have an intimate connection when i married wilson i thought this is going to require some change on my part hanks explained i won't deny that providence was part of us finding each other but our relationship isn't magic the way it's shown in movies in real life our connection is as concrete as me sitting here not that marriage doesn't come close to being hell in a hand basket sometimes but we both know that no matter what we'll be with each other and we'll get through it for the next few years things went very well for wilson and hanks they got into the producing game and made the very popular my big fat greek wedding and mamma mia together at the same time hanks filled up his resume even more with films such as catch me if you can and road to perdition in 2013 the guardian newspaper asked tanks how he managed to balance family life with his career he answered well i was lucky and that it didn't happen overnight and so i was used to this whole dog and pony show and you know we had some of the greatest family vacations during that time waterskiing in seattle during sleepless in seattle hanging out in indiana during a league of their own but matters of health became a concern as time went on in july 2014 hanks told the talk magazine that he had to structure some of his life around his diabetes he said never mind that i make movies for a living and i've got grandkids who i want to see in the future i now have to start to take better care of myself and then suddenly a major blow came in 2015 wilson was diagnosed with breast cancer the talented producer then released a statement to people magazine in april explaining what had happened she said last week with my husband by my side and with the love and support of family and friends i underwent a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction for breast cancer after diagnosis of invasive lobular carcinoma however wilson said that she was expected to make a full recovery the star continued i feel blessed to have a loving supportive husband family friends and doctors that i am the beneficiary of advances in the field of breast cancer and reconstruction i am getting better every day and look forward to renewed health in may 2015 wilson spoke about her experience with cancer in an interview with the new york times newspaper she said hanks had helped her immensely adding you never know how your spouse is going to react in a situation like this i was so amazed so blown away by the care my husband gave me it was such a normal intimate time but that year was difficult in other ways too in october the couple's oldest son chet hanks released a series of videos apologizing for past behavior but things soon improved for hanks in march 2017 he appeared on the podcast so many white guys and sang the praises of his wife once more he remembered i will say that right from the get-go i thought there was something crazy great about her and he also said we learned the secret of happiness with each other a long time ago and that's always telling the truth interestingly it seems that hanks and wilson have a lot of secrets to maintaining their marriage in 2019 the letter told us weekly magazine we got married we committed to each other we love each other and we work hard at our relationship not only do we love each other we really like each other and we like being together and we support each other and we keep the communications channel open that's always important wilson was talking to the magazine because she had just received a star on the hollywood walk of fame and for the ceremony her beloved husband was of course there to give a speech hanks told the audience the roles in stage in film and television just kept finding her and she inhabited characters and charmed audiences and stole scenes from those of the stars in the movies and she has a highlight reel that any of us would envy later in 2019 hanks played famous children's television host mr rogers in the biopic a beautiful day in the neighborhood and he revealed to entertainment tonight that doing this had strengthened his marriage during times when tippers were strained the actor explained he fell back on the teachings of rogers hanks told kevin frazier when my wife and i are going at it on those rare occasions when she is letting me know that i'm not really listening to her and i'm trying to establish what the ground rules are for the argument when we're going at it like that one of us will say well you know what you know what honey it's good to talk it's good to say the things we feel in the beginning of 2020 hanks hit audience right in the fields when he thanked his wife and family in his acceptance speech for a cecil b demille award indeed he was in tears not long after starting to speak through them he said these are the people i am most blessed by in this life i can't tell you how much your love means to me but unfortunately 2020 had some other things in store on march 12th hanks wrote on instagram alongside a mysterious photo we felt a bit tired like we had colds and some body aches wilson had some chills that came and went slight fevers too to play things right as is needed in the world right now we were tested for coronavirus and were found to be positive hank's continued on well now what to do next the medical officials have protocols that must be followed we hanks will be tested observed and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires not much more to do it than a one day at a time approach no we'll keep the world posted and updated take care of yourselves wilson and hanks ended up spending two weeks in quarantine in australia before being cleared and heading home on march 29th hanks tweeted out many many thanks to everyone in australia who looked after us their care and guidance made possible our return to the usa and many thanks to all of you who reached out with well wishes wilson and i so appreciate it meanwhile people were curious to learn about how hanks and wilson had coped in such a situation on april 17th the latter spoke to the guardian newspaper about what it had been like she said we both had a high fever and were extremely achy i lost my sense of taste and smell had stomach issues and was shivering like you wouldn't believe yeah i was scared the interviewer then brought up something that happened during wilson's earlier health scare in 2019 the actress had written on instagram four years ago when i was diagnosed with breast cancer i had so many different thoughts you're scared anxious you think about your own mortality so i had a serious discussion with my husband that if anything happens i wanted him to be super sad for a long time and i'd also like a party a celebration wilson was asked if she had a similar conversation with her husband in quarantine the star then answered no but we did have a different conversation before we were diagnosed before i had cancer i would hear about other people having cancer i said to him before all this once you've had cancer you understand you are other people there's no reason why we shouldn't get coronavirus we could get it and we got it i think that having the virus at the same time made it that little bit easier wilson went on we were taking care of each other instead of having the pressure of taking care of one person and no one taking care of you or understanding that the person at home needs a break we were fortunate we were in a place where we understood what the other was going through the subject of chet also came up in the interview during the course of his parents being in quarantine he had kept their fans updated with videos explaining what was going on asked about her feelings on this wilson said it was very sweet of him of course our entire family was concerned about us during the same month hanks also talked about what it had been like in lockdown he told the national defense radio show wilson went through a tougher time than i did she had a much higher fever she had lost her sense of taste and sense of smell she got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks meanwhile hanks and wilson both ended up helping the fight against coronavirus at the end of april hank said on the wait wait don't tell me podcast we have not only been approached we have said do you want our blood can we give plasma and in fact we will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what i would like to call the hank scene before the quarantine hanks had been working on an untitled film about elvis presley he was set to play the singer's famous manager colonel tom parker and when it does eventually hit theaters there's little doubt that he and wilson will be at the premiere together their trials seem to have only made them stronger

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Published: Tue Sep 15 2020