Chet Hanks Asks Internet to “Free Me” After Passport Snafu Leaves Him “Stuck” in Colombia

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Rapper-model-actor Chet Hanks has marked himself as “OK” as he continues to sort out his reentry into the United States after becoming stranded in Colombia without his passport last week. Hanks, the eldest son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, explained in an Instagram video on Friday that he flew to Puerto Rico to attend his “homie Max’s birthday, where the 35-year-old dad had “a good time.” But when Hanks was ready to head back home, after he decided on a whim to extend his trip a little further south and outside of a U.S. territory, he realized that wasn’t going to be so easy. Related Stories Business Europe Won't Kill the Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal -- But It Could Make David Ellison Wait News Iranian Diaspora Filmmakers Celebrate Khamenei's Death: "Everybody Is Extremely Happy the Dictator Is Dead" “I’m in Puerto Rico, and we’re all about to leave. I go, Hmm, I’m only, you know, two, three hours away from Medellin. Why don’t I go pull up on my homie Taylor, who lives in Medellin? Fuck it. Yeah, sounds good, right?” Hanks said in his Instagram video post last week. Hanks, who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Greece, was traveling using his Greek passport, he explained. This was because his U.S. passport was about to expire when he left for Puerto Rico. The problem arose when Hanks got to the airport in Medellin and was told that he’ll need his U.S.passport to re-enter the country after his quick trip to Colombia. “They tell me that if I’m using a foreign passport,” he said in the clip, “I need a green card to get back into America. I don’t have a green card because I’m an American citizen. I don’t have my American passport with me, so I’m literally stuck in Colombia.” The self-proclaimed “black sheep of the Hanks family, whose contr...