Actor Alec Baldwin Loses Cool with Daughter
What You Shouldn't Leave on Your Daughters Voice Mail
Baldwin apparently became extremely angry and irate with Ireland after she didn't answer her phone for a scheduled phone call between the two. According to the divorce proceedings between her parents Ireland and her father have to work out a time every week for their phone calls to each other. Baldwin can be heard on the message berating his daughter and telling her that this was all a plan by her mother to keep him further away from his daughter and that she was playing right into it.
The question now though, did Alec Baldwin go to far with reprimanding his daughter for the phone tag she had been playing with him in the days and weeks leading up to this incident? I can see where this might come out in the heat of the moment, but a lot of it was completely uncalled for. This is a good example of why people should calm down first before leaving a message for someone if they think they are going to get heated about it.
In the beginning of the call Baldwin starts by telling his daughter that he has made himself look stupid again as he tries to get a phone call to her at a specific time. He goes on to tell her that when the time comes for him to make a phone call to her he drops everything that he is doing to make sure the call happens and that he would expect the same courteous. He continues to yell at her for not having "the G**damn phone turned on."
Then the rant continues with "I want you to know something, OK?I'm tired of playing this game with you. I'm leaving this message with you to tell you you have insulted me for the last time. You have insulted me. You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being. I don't give a d*mn that you're 12 years old, or 11 years old, or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the a** who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned. You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone."
Baldwin then continues by telling his daughter that he plans to fly from New York to Los Angelous for the day the following week to straighten her out on the issue and let her know how disappointed and angry he is that she has done this to him again. Baldwin then continues with the profanity and tells his daughter that she would never dream of pulling this with her mother but she pulls it with him time after time.
In closing the the message to Ireland Baldwin says, "Do you understand me? I'm going to really make sure you get it. Then I'm going to get on a plane and I'm going to turn around and come home. So you'd better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me. So I'm going to let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are. You are a rude, thoughtless little pig, OK?"
Currently Basinger is using the message in her fight to gain sole custody of Ireland and cut off all of Alec Baldwin's parental rights. The rumor of her leaking the message to celebrity website TMZ.com hasn't helped her in her fight either as Baldwin's attorney has now asked the courts to hold her in contempt. This wouldn't be Basinger's first time being held in contempt during her bitter divorce.
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28 Comments
Post a CommentSo what? He got pissed off at his kid!! My dad's called me way worse things, and starting at a much younger age. She'll get over it, learn to fight back. I was a really well behaved kid. Getting yelled at and hit kept me that way. I resent him a little for the physical stuff, but he loses his temper and calls me things, threatens things. So what, he's venting! That's just how we are, we fight to communicate. For all we know, she deserved it. My parents didn't even let me have a cell phone 'til I was 13 (and had to pay for it)! Some kids need that kind of discipline. And even if they don't, some parents need to be like that for their own reasons.
The hurtful, stinging words Alec Balwin used to attack his daughter is verbal abuse and it probably wasn't the first time. This explains why Ireland refuses to answer her father's phone calls. And I suspect that he also abused his ex wife Kim in the same manner. I understand and feel for them. As a child I was subjected to verbal and physical abuse by my father. There is no excuse for Alec baldwin's behavior. No parent should ever belittle a child.
Just a general comment on the article and not the other comments: I don't think a parent should ever, ever call a child any rude or disrespectful name. That leaves permanent, horrible, scars. A child looks to a parent for nearly all of their self-esteem during the formative years and the terrible effects of being called rude names, whether obscene words or not, can last a lifetime.
His comments were inappropriate in that they were rude, disrespectful, and unkind toward his child. They did nothing to help sort the situation out but instead flung blame around. The swear words are the least of the problem here, IMO. I agree the media can get out of the way anytime now.
there was really no reason for this to occure and the man should be ashamed of himself, although the media hype is a bit much. Good article
I doubt I'll lose my child for saying 'damn phone' on the internet or in real life. That's not child abuse, and you don't lose your kids for not feeling certain words are obscene. I don't care how others judge me, because CPS has to have proof to violate your rights by removing your children--not just an opinion. It wasn't "that bad" when you compare it to what other abusive parents do, but it was still wrong...and it if it was an attempt at discipline, it was a poor one, as insulting your child teaches them nothing. I agree the media is making this whole situation worse. When I was called a pig it was just as hurtful as bitch. www.allaboutlifechallenges.org/verbal-abuse.htm & www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/verbalabuse.html & www.verbalabuse.com/faq.shtml list name-calling as verbal abuse, and name-calling is generally considered verbal abuse despite whatever your definition is.
CONTINUED: reacts the same to various types of treatment, or interprets the same words as verbal abuse. I've had much worse things said to me by loved ones, and they have remained loved ones, so I am one person that has a different thought on what is verbal abuse. What I would say to a child may be different than what he said to his, or what has been said to me in the past. And of course this doesn't mean all things are appropriate in raising a child, certainly not physical abuse or certain types of verbal responses. But,in my opinion, after reading all of what he said to her (one excerpted conversation out of the 11-12 years of their relationship) I don't think it was that bad, and I think it was an attempt at discipline, better than most of the too mealy-mouthed or too unrelentingly treatment of children that passes for discipline these days. But whatever comes of it has nothing to do with me, or anyone else outside of the situation. I suppose it's up to chosen experts and his daught
That's fine, Heather. I cuss too and that's not a problem for me. I didn't say I judge cursing harshly, I said it can be judged harshly. My meaning is that others interpret what they see and hear based on their own experiences and viewpoints, not always based on what is actually going on or being said. And when it comes to circumstances such as possibly losing your child, how people think of you can end up, unfortunately, being very important. If you ever, for any reason, lost your temper with your child and had to answer to someone in CPS, how they think of your language or behavior in any other situations could have an impact on the outcome, despite who you really are or your best intentions. You obviously have long-standing issues about the way your mother treated you, and that really is too bad that happened to you and left you scarred, but everyone's experiences and interpretations are not yours. People, children and adults, are not "cookie cutter". You don't know that everyone re
It's not about the language he used. It's about the fact that he insu
I really don't care how others judge me in a public forum, and if I did, I wouldn't write articles on controversial subjects expressing my opinion. How I treat strangers on the internet who are advocating verbal child abuse has nothing to do with my normal treatment of people. I don't view cuss words as inappropriate, unless you are using them to describe or curse a person. They weren't meant as insults, but as adjectives. I don't view "damn phone" as verbal abuse. If it's not verbal abuse when you're expressing anger or disappointment, then I guess when my mother expressed her anger at me by calling me a bitch, that wasn't verbal abuse, and it was okay for her to do it. Nevertheless it had harmful effects on me, and being called a pig hurt just as much. Their relationship is irrelevent. Name-calling is verbal abuse, and it is wrong. It is hurtful and can do long-term damage, whether you want to acknowledge it or not. He WAS in the wrong for stooping to such childish, immature behavior