Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s son, Chet Hanks, is suing his ex-girlfriend Kianna Parker after a physical altercation.
A Fort Bend County judge granted Parker's protection order on Tuesday after a January incident occurred at Hanks’ Sugar Land, Texas home.
In a video released by TMZ, both Parker and Hanks are seen arguing prior to a scuffle. Hanks can be heard accusing Parker of “threatening” him with a knife, while Parker shouts in the background, “you pushed me.” Moments later, Parker lunges at Hanks before the camera cuts to black and he returns bleeding from the forehead.
"Now you're flipping the story," Hanks says in the video while insisting that Parker was responsible for the wound. The 30-year-old later claimed that Parker has stolen over $5,000 from him to pay for rent and travel expenses for herself and a friend.
Hanks is suing Parker for theft, assault, battery and conversion, according to court documents obtained by People Magazine.
"The day after Chet Hanks confronted Kiana Parker about stealing money from his credit card, while Ms. Parker was accompanied by a huge male carrying a gun she viciously attacked Chet with a knife, which caused him to profusely bleed. It is all on video and the undisputed video tells the whole story. Her claims are completely false, fabricated and fictional," Marty Singer, Hanks' lawyer, told TMZ.
Page Six reported that following the altercation, Parker was also granted a temporary restraining order against her former partner, who she claims “threw a bottle at her” and called her a “ghetto Black b***h” while the two were living in New Orleans.
Parker alleged that a week after the New Orleans threats, “things turned dark," the documents stated. "He [Hanks] told me he would blow my brains out and that he didn’t want to live and would blow his brains out as well."
Parker's attorney, D'Angelo Lowe, told TMZ that she is under a doctor's care at the moment and that she's tried serving Chet to no avail. Parker has also tried to reach out to Hanks' famous parents in an attempt to make the temporary restraining order permanent.
Hanks is subject to a fine and could face up to up to six months in jail if he violates the protective order, which prohibits him from communicating with Parker, going near her and possessing a firearm. On March 30, a judge also ordered the suspension of his gun license, Page Six reported.
Footage of the feud leaked after Hanks posted on social media, proclaiming that a “White Boy Summer” is drawing near.
Hanks posted a video to Instagram last week captioned, “is it about to be a #WhiteBoySummer or am I trippin ???? Tag a REAL vanilla king #Respectfully."
"I just got this feeling man, that this summer is, it’s about to be a white boy summer,” he said in the video. “Take it how you want.”
“I’m not talking about Trump, NASCAR type white,” he added, “I’m talking about, you know, me, [R&B artist] Jon B, [rapper] Jack Harlow type white boy summer. Let me know if you guys can vibe with that and get ready, ‘cuz I am.”
In addition to his “White Boy Summer” claims, Hanks created a new collection of clothing with the same title, releasing a video Tuesday showing his latest project, adding that a "#BlackQueenSummer" collection is up next.
Both the phrase and the clothing line did not resonate well with social media users. TikTok star Josiah Hughes wrote on Twitter that “unfortunately the merch looks aggressively racist.”
hmm unfortunately the merch looks aggressively racist pic.twitter.com/B49bYztQAv
— jos (@josiahhughes) March 30, 2021
This is not the first time Hanks has been accused of racially insensitive behavior after he received backlash for uttering a Jamaican accent at last year's Golden Globes. As Blavity previously reported, Hanks also defended his use of the N-word in 2015, asserting that it “unifies the culture of hip-hop across all races.”
