Being Tom Hanks‘ son is no easy gig—according to his 25-year-old son, Chet Hanks, who all of a sudden made an overbearing appearance on Instagram in the wee hours of the morning on Oct. 1, saying: “It’s been a long journey discovering who I am because all the pressures that I’ve dealt in my life—you know, being the son of my dad and everything.”
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Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
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https://www.instagram.com/p/8R9ExMFlxI/Chet has been suspended from the social platform for going on an offensive rant about how he could use the n-word whenever he wanted, but for his big debut return on Oct. 1, he's now asking for a little forgiveness and explaining the heartbreaking reason he’s been missing for so long. "It's not my place to speak on it and I'm genuinely sorry for the people I offended," one of the 11 videos he posted on Oct. 1 revealed.
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Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
What changed? Well, the rapper (i.e. Chet Haze) claims in another video that his drug addiction got the best of him and that just wasn't really him in the grand scheme of things. Star reported the drug and alcohol addict even posted a video in late July while riding in a car alone, that oddly had him giving both sides of a conversation.
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Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
Star readers exclusively learned that Tom and Rita Wilson's son fell off the radar for almost two months—leaving them to fear the worst. Given his longtime struggles with cocaine and alcohol addiction, the source exclusively told Star, "There are legitimate fears for his well-being."
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But one of the videos goes on to explain his mysterious absence—which forced his parents to keep his MIA out of the media's eye by hiring "a group of 'outside parties' to handle the situation," a source exclusively told Star earlier this year in July.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/8SBpJFll2Y/But he wasn't in danger, instead saying he's been getting help at "Alcoholics Anonymous" and "Narcotics Anonymous" to end his addictions that teased death in the face. "A couple of months ago I was selling coke [and] doing coke until I couldn't even snort it up my nose anymore because it was so clogged. I even smoked crack," Chet says in the Instagram video.
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Chevy Rocks The Future - Arrivals
"I'm just giving y'all the raw realness to let y'all know that this sh-t here really is not a game. It's life or death," Chet's caption read on one of the video series.
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Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
As Star reported, he got into a booze-fueld brawl with a number of bouncers at The Vault nightclub in L.A. last March, and in June, he allegedly trashed a hotel room in the London suburbs in a drunken rage.
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Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
Photo credit: Splash News
Chet has been suspended from the social platform for going on an offensive rant about how he could use the n-word whenever he wanted, but for his big debut return on Oct. 1, he's now asking for a little forgiveness and explaining the heartbreaking reason he’s been missing for so long. "It's not my place to speak on it and I'm genuinely sorry for the people I offended," one of the 11 videos he posted on Oct. 1 revealed.
Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
What changed? Well, the rapper (i.e. Chet Haze) claims in another video that his drug addiction got the best of him and that just wasn't really him in the grand scheme of things. Star reported the drug and alcohol addict even posted a video in late July while riding in a car alone, that oddly had him giving both sides of a conversation.
Photo credit: Splash News
Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
Star readers exclusively learned that Tom and Rita Wilson's son fell off the radar for almost two months—leaving them to fear the worst. Given his longtime struggles with cocaine and alcohol addiction, the source exclusively told Star, "There are legitimate fears for his well-being."
Photo credit: Splash News
But one of the videos goes on to explain his mysterious absence—which forced his parents to keep his MIA out of the media's eye by hiring "a group of 'outside parties' to handle the situation," a source exclusively told Star earlier this year in July.
Photo credit: Getty Images
But he wasn't in danger, instead saying he's been getting help at "Alcoholics Anonymous" and "Narcotics Anonymous" to end his addictions that teased death in the face. "A couple of months ago I was selling coke [and] doing coke until I couldn't even snort it up my nose anymore because it was so clogged. I even smoked crack," Chet says in the Instagram video.
Chevy Rocks The Future - Arrivals
"I'm just giving y'all the raw realness to let y'all know that this sh-t here really is not a game. It's life or death," Chet's caption read on one of the video series.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Actor Tom Hanks and his son Chet Hanks (Chet Haze) take in the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden
As Star reported, he got into a booze-fueld brawl with a number of bouncers at The Vault nightclub in L.A. last March, and in June, he allegedly trashed a hotel room in the London suburbs in a drunken rage.
Photo credit: Splash News