I guess he and Kim Basinger are having a custody battle.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/19/alec-baldwins-threatening-message-to-daughter/
Alec Baldwin goes off on daughter over the phone
by MsMcDucket 40 Replies latest social family
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prophecor
I guess even the rich and famous can't get the parental authority thing strait, either. 12 years old and a cell phone? Who's in control? Who's in charge, anyway? Apparently, not Daddy Warbucks.
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MsMcDucket
Prop, Alec lost total control on that phone call. Were you able to listen to it?
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free2beme
Anyone here know the frustration of a divorce? Anyone here know people who were dealing with shared custody, and blew up from time to time? As much as I dislike hearing this kind of thing, as I do not like Alec anyway. I also think it is without taste to release something like this to the media, when it is the dirty laundry of the family and no one but their business and the court system.
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rebel8
He shouldn't have said that and all, but I have to say how Klassy it was of his ex to release the tape to the media. Not.
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UnConfused
I have to agree. For goodness sake, to release this was the worse of the two sins. Of course he shouldn't have said that, I'm not defending it, but to release that demeans the whole family, but especially Kim.
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Dansk
On face value it would appear Baldwin's daughter is a spoilt brat and taking her mother's side, who probably caused her to be spoilt in the first place!
As I said, it's only on face value and may only appear to be the way I understand it. Baldwin had no right to bawl his child out like that - but utter frustration makes us all do stupid things.
Ian
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zagor
Combining Kim's love of the bottle and Alec's intellect I hate to think what that girl will turn into.
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SixofNine
Today's the big day!
That's an example of what I'm talkin' about: 1st rule of good parenting, "first, do no harm". He didn't handle that well at all; not as a parent, but also not as one human interacting with another human.
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blondie
Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter
Posted Apr 19th 2007 2:57PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Celebrity FeudsAn enraged Alec Baldwin unleashed a volcanic tirade of threats and insults on his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig," and bashing her mother Kim Basinger -- and TMZ has obtained the whole thing unfiltered and raw. And we've learned, a family law judge was so alarmed after hearing the tape, she has temporarily barred Baldwin from having any contact with his child.
After Ireland failed to answer her father's scheduled morning phone call from New York on April 11, Alec went berserk on her voice mail, saying "Once again, I have made an ass of myself trying to get to a phone," adding, "you have insulted me for the last time."
Switching his train of thought, Baldwin then exercised his incredible parenting skills and took a shot at his ex-wife, declaring, "I don't give a damn that you're 12-years-old or 11-years-old, or a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do." The irate Baldwin went on to say, "You've made me feel like s**t" and threatened to "straighten your ass out."
"This crap you pull on me with this goddamn phone situation that you would never dream of doing to your mother," screamed Baldwin, "and you do it to me constantly over and over again."
Before hanging up, Baldwin warned the child, "You better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me." That's tomorrow.
We've learned that on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner Maren Nelson heard the tape and temporarily suspended Baldwin's visitation rights. A hearing is set for May 4, where the judge could permanently deny Baldwin visitation or contact with Ireland.
Calls to Basinger's attorneys, celebrity lawyers Neal Hersh and Judy Bogen, were not returned.
Baldwin's lawyer, Vicki Greene, told TMZ, "Whatever happened yesterday was sealed and confidential. What you're telling me you've got you shouldn't have."UPDATE:Basinger's publicist, Annette Wolfe, told TMZ: "The voicemail speaks for itself."
UPDATE:A friend of Alec Baldwin's just contacted TMZ to say that the actor called Ireland last week and apologized for his outburst. The friend added that Ireland is the most important thing in the world to Alec and that he is frustrated because over the last six years, Kim has "tried everything" to alienate Ireland from him.
UPDATE: Alec Baldwin's spokesperson released the following statement to the TV show "EXTRA": "In the best interest of the child, Alec will do what the mother is pathologically incapable of doing ... keeping his mouth shut and obeying the court order. The mother and her lawyer leaked this sealed material in violation of a court order. Although Alec acknowledges that he should have used different language in parenting his child, everyone who knows him privately knows what he has been put through for the past six years."