Tom Hanks has long gained a reputation in Hollywood as the “perfect father of America” - he is moderate, understanding, empathetic and looks like the perfect person to share your problems with.
However, his own son Chester (better known as Chet) disagrees. On the contrary, he said, while he was a teenager, he did not have a “strong male role model” to help him get through his difficult times.
Chet Hanks’ revelation came on Tuesday in a video he posted on his personal YouTube channel, Hanx Fit. The video is titled “The Truth About Growing Up Like Hanks” and there the 31-year-old actor talks about the neglect and mistreatment with which his peers treated him while he was at school.
The video itself is the first in a series of cultivation videos that Chet plans to publish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvxJA7p2_Q
In the video, he admits that he loves his parents very much, but according to him he was facing a lot of hostility, precisely because he was the son of the man who won many Oscars.
“There are many advantages to being a celebrity child, but sometimes the feeling can be quite strange. I could do a lot of great nonsense that most people can’t do. I could travel the world, stay in nice hotels, fly with private jets and I feel grateful for that. I would not change my situation, “said Tom Hanks’ son.
According to him, however, his own experience with fame is more complicated because he has touched all its poison, without even being known.
“I was just the son of someone famous, so even if I hadn’t done anything to deserve some recognition, it created a lot of contempt,” Chet explains.
According to him, his peers perceived him as “arrogant, privileged and spoiled”, which hurt him a lot, because at that time there was no one to tell him a “brother, send these people to hell, they just envy you” .
“You have all these things that they want you to do, so they try to humiliate you so you can feel bad about yourself because you’re jealous,” Tom Hanks’ son explains of the things he needed to hear as younger, but there was no one.
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As for his peers and how they harassed him, he explained that it was extremely difficult for him to break through this initial “wall” of hostility.
“So, I met a lot of contempt, a lot of hostility and negativity, because everyone was just ready to hate me in the gut,” said Chet, adding that this attitude was never shown in his face, but was said behind his back. .
Chet is Hanks’ third child and his first with wife Rita Wilson. From his previous marriage to Samantha Lewis, the famous actor has two other children – Colin and Elizabeth, and Rita has another son – Truman.
Chet himself is like the family’s black sheep. He had drug problems, a very controversial career as a rapper, no success in his acting career, and among other things, although his parents were among the first to be infected with COVID-19 and support common rules to combat the pandemic. he spoke out against vaccines and masks.
To top it all off, he garnered a lot of negative comments when he announced in 2021 that the summer of 2021 was the “summer of the white boy”.
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