Alec Baldwin Says He's a Victim
"Although I have been told by numerous people not to worry too much, as all parents lose their patience with their kids, I am most saddened that this was released to the media because of what it does to a child."
He continued, "I'm sorry, as everyone who knows me is aware, for losing my temper with my child. I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand. (Although I hope you never do.) I am sorry for what happened. But I am equally sorry that a court order was violated, which had deliberately been put under seal in this case."
"In such public cases, your opponents attempt to take a picture of you on your worst day and insist that this is who you are as a person," Baldwin said.
"Outside the doors of divorce court, I have friends, I have respect from people I work with, and I have a normal relationship with my daughter. All of that is threatened whenever one enters a courtroom."
Yesterday TMZ published the expletive strewn voice mail and it quickly spread to hundreds of websites and blogs. In the recording the actor called his only child "a rude, thoughtless little pig" as he berated the girl for not answering her phone. He also hurled insults at Kim Basinger, the child's mother, complaining that the Oscar winning actress had no control over the youth.
Baldwin ended the conversation by saying Ireland needed be straightened out and that they would meet on Friday.
That meeting never happened. On Wednesday a Los Angeles County Court Commissioner temporarily banned Baldwin from having any contact with his daughter. Baldwin's permanent visitation rights are set to be decided during a May 4 court date.
Basinger's attorney, Neal Hersh, asserted that Baldwin has lost touch with reality and hasn't taken responsibility for the problems he has with his daughter.
Baldwin has filed legal papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court to find out who gave TMZ the voice mail message. TMZ refuses to name any confidential sources.
Baldwin and Basinger were married from 1993 to 2002. They have been embroiled in custody battles since their divorce.
Sources
Www.tmz.com, www,msnbc.com,www.wikiepedia.com
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Post a CommentThis would be the antithesis of the Bruce Willis/Demi Moore divorce. How much energy are the parents wasting with all the fighting. I've yelled at my daughter and wished I hadn't. I'm grateful my parental gaffe didn't end up in People magazine. We'll never know all the details and shouldn't - it's a private matter.
I think it is sad that parents have to fight and then the child is stuck in the middle. What happens next? The child is hurt. Of course, I don't believe Alec was using good judgment when he made this call. But I can understand being frustrated. Again, I feel sorry for the child.
Part II: that child knows what the Mother is doing & can figure out that her Dad was emotionally worn down & had a breakdown from the stress of these mind games. Give him a break & allow the important relationship between child & Dad heal & thrive. God bless Alec & his daughter. P.S. Some think the Mother is trying to protect the child, not so. The Mother is trying to selfishly & hurtfull control the situation. Look at her past record. For instance the town she purchased & hurt all the citizens because she is so selfish & controling.
No Alec does not have a long history of losing it with his daughter. They have had a wonderful relationship until the Mother of the child/ex wife's bitter revengeful actions to pit the daughter against her Dad started. You need to look into the facts here in this situation. Once again, just because a male has made a mistake or been accused of something, then everyone thinks he should be shot at sunrise, but what ever a woman does or what manipulating tactics she uses to hurt the male (yes, even to the point where the child is used in her tactic) then everyone just simply lets her get by with it. PLEASE! It's time to realize that if Kim would back off & allow the court ordered communications to happen between child & Dad without interference, then this is what would be in the child's very best interest. For sure Alec should not have said the things he said & there is no reason on earth for any parent to talk like that to their child, but that child knows what the Mother is doing & can f
There is no context where it's ok to threaten & berate ect ur kid with such raw rage. Don't care how mad or wronged u are. Theres no context were it's ok to threaten berate ect ur kid with such raw rage. Don't care how mad or wronged u are. Alec has a known past of anger control isues doubt that was the first time he has lost it with her.. He needs help she protection from him. On the view, Alec had an agenda and it was'nt his daughter rather is own self pity. Everyone is to blame but himself.
Alec claims parental alienation we have no proof its his version of the story, if its happening its wrong! maybe though he has a long history of losing it with his daughter and moms just trying to protect her?
Part 2: The child will forgive & learns a valuable lesson from the situation. If she can forgive him, I think that we as the public should try to understand what he has been going through & forgive him too.
Alec Baldwin has been being abused by his ex wife for year through her manipulating the daughter to disreguard & disrespect her Dad. Kim Bassenger should be held in contempt of court for playing these games to put the child in the middle of Kim's vengence & bitterness against Alec. I believe he was pushed & pushed mentally & emotionally by Kim time after time until he had a meltdown. He is human, give him a break. Which one of us has not yelled & said something horrible to the one we love so much during a horrible emotional time in our life. I believe he is truly sorry & remorseful & would never do something like this again. I really think Kim has been manipulating & interfering with Alec's time to spend with his daughter. Shame on her. Some day the daughter will be old enough to figure it all out about how her Mother pitted her against her Dad. His heart is broken over this. I think the daughter forgives him. When a parent makes a mistake & askes the child for forgiveness, the child
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one, because I think anytime you do something intended to hurt your child--no matter what your emotions are at the time--it's abuse. If we're going to decide that if you call your child a bad name in a fit of temper, then it's not abuse--then every single time my mother called me a bitch, it wasn't abuse. ANd everytime a person beats their child to death in a fit of rage, it's not abuse. That doesn't make ANY sense to me.
Calling your child a pig once when you are in a fit of temper is not abuse - it is a bad parenting mistake. Repeatedly calling your child a pig and putting him/her down at every opportunity is abuse.
Because I don't think it's appropriate to assume things about people, like to assume that she deliberately didn't answer the phone. Not to mention, even if she purposely didn't answer, that's HER right. I wouldn't want to talk to anyone who called me names like that. It hurts just as much to be called a pig as it does to be called a bitch; I've been called both.