Posted on 04/24/2007 7:49:23 AM PDT by rawhide
LOS ANGELES — Kim Basinger denies she leaked a voicemail in which her ex-husband, Alec Baldwin, calls their 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig."
"Kim Basinger did not release the voicemail. Additionally, the voicemail was not sealed under a court order," said a statement released by the actress's publicist, Annett Wolf, on Monday.
Baldwin left a voicemail lambasting his daughter, Ireland, for failing to answer the telephone for a prearranged call. The tape was aired by the celebrity Web site TMZ.com on Thursday and quickly made headlines around the world.
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner ordered Baldwin to stay away from his daughter pending a May 4 hearing.
Baldwin, who has been locked in a custody dispute with Basinger since their 2002 divorce, blamed her for the leak on Friday. He also apologized on his own Web site for "losing my temper with my child."
"I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now," Baldwin wrote.
"Everybody is always asking why this custody battle has been going on for so many years, and now they have the answer. The issue is not about Kim or the alleged alienation that Alec constantly refers to; it is about his ongoing aggressive behavior," Basinger's statement said.
"Kim's sincerest wish is for him to finally address his unstable and irrational behavior so he, at some point, can potentially create a relationship with his daughter," the statement said. "Until then, Kim will continue to protect and safeguard her child's well-being as any parent would."
Basinger is facing trial on 12 misdemeanor counts of criminal contempt for allegedly disregarding court orders concerning Baldwin's visitation rights.
Oooh! I do not think Alec is going to like this statement? She really sticks it to him.
Unstable and irrational behavior ......IMO she said it well.
I can’t stand her. She released this. Of course she did. It was on HER phone! She is selfish and ruining her daughter. Of course, Alec is no better. Poor kid. She should be taken from both parents!
Riiiiiiight.
I think the best way for Kim to get back at Alec is to star in 9 1/2 weeks 2.
Even though it doesn’t excuse Baldwin’s behavior in the least, I am positive that she released it. Who else would?
I think they both have issues, and that child is the one who is suffering. Baldwin is a moron, but Basinger is just being ridiculous if she thinks people are going to believe she wasn’t the one who released the tape.
Take the kid away and chain Alec and Kim together for the rest of their lives, they deserve one another.
lol. Definitely!!!!!!!!!!
Why does anyone care???
"Everybody is always asking why this custody battle has been going on for so many years, and now they have the answer. The issue is not about Kim or the alleged alienation that Alec constantly refers to; it is about his ongoing aggressive behavior," Basinger's statement said.
Basinger - checkmate.
I think she submitted it as court evidence to deny him visitation. Couldn’t a court employee have leaked it to TMZ?
Men just don’t GET that way. Sure blame the woman for provoking what probably has been festering for many years prior to there marriage.
Do you know what Alec was reported to have been doing the night before this phone rant took place? He was on a late night talk show, mocking his daughter before a national audience. She have have felt embarrassed, if she had watched him? And then he calls her the next morning and she does not answer her telephone. I wonder if that could a part on the reason?
She have have=she may have
One of the websites that publicized it implied that the daughter released it.
Other possibilities include her daughter, her lawyer, a court employee, her cleaning people, her assistant.
It might have been her, but it's possible it wasn't.
These two deserve one another ... no question.
I think Baldwin's behavior in re spousal abuse, Rep Hyde political abuse and advocating familial destruction, and his verbal abuse on Hannity's radio program are indications of a turbulent, troubled temperment! (Three Ts!).
Baldwin needs to be Taken To Task! (three more Ts!).
Tuesday Truclent Testimony! (Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!)
Seriously. It could have been a lot of people. Hopefully it’s just someone wanting to keep this child (& possibly Basinger) safe. This behavior reminds me of someone else. And that’s scary.
True. Lots of T’s there aren’t there?
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