Posted on 04/20/2007 5:06:55 PM PDT by advance_copy
Alec Baldwin issued an apology on Friday for unleashing a volcanic tirade at his 11-year-old daughter and blamed "certain people" for leaking the rant to US media.
The Oscar-nominated star of "The Departed" branded daughter Ireland a "rude, thoughtless, little pig" in a fiery voicemail message that emerged on celebrity websites on Thursday.
It is the latest twist to the bitter legal wrangling between Baldwin and ex-wife Kim Basinger over custody and visitation rights relating to Ireland. The couple split in 2001.
Baldwin's tirade was apparently triggered by Ireland's failure to switch her mobile phone on for a scheduled call with her father.
"Once again I've made an ass out of myself trying to get to a phone at a specific time," Baldwin says in the message. "I'm tired of playing this game with you. You have insulted me for the last time.
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I’m sorry that you hated your parents. My dad used rough language on me and we’re very close. As I’ve said, I came from a place where it was fairly common for the paterfamilias to physically beat everybody else in the family. If my sons have a problem with me saying something to them, I hope that they’ll tell me. My oldest boy is on his own now in the US Coast Guard, and we’re very close. I hope that he won’t be glad to bury me because I called him a bad name when he was eleven years old. Maybe he’ll think about all the good stuff I did for him and how I had his back whenever he needed it as a teenager, that I backed down some cops who were getting ready to play rough with him for going five mile over the speed limit in our little burg (thank god for cellphones on that one) and I was the one person he could absolutely trust and rely on. I’m sorry, pal, but when I cussed my boys out, they had it coming, and once they got their butts chewed out, it was back to normal. What did you Dad do for you? If he was a good guy and you could count on him when everybody else let you down, then you have a big problem by enjoying his death because he chewed your ass out. Otherwise, I would say that things at your place where probably more along the lines of neglect, criticsm and maybe physical abuse to go along with the verbal.
I don’t like Alec Baldwin, and his message was totally wrong, but I also wonder why it would be released?
“That’s LIFE. EVERYONE DOES IT.”
No, my friend, they don’t. Either you didn’t hear this on the radio, or your just plain stupid.
He should probably be jailed for that kind of abuse.
This idiot doesn’t even know how old his daughter is. He should be castrated for the good of the country.
Thanks, I have been really surprised by people here critical of a parent being a parent. There is no official handbook, and if there was, would everybody really want the government telling us to raise their children? I am not perfect, but none of my boys have ever had to miss school because their black eye hasn’t healed yet. Put the emphasis where it belongs. Baldwin has a different political outlook than I do, but I felt as if I was eavesdropping on a very personal conversation, that I had no business listening to.
It was stupid and horrible, but everyone here is a nanny stater. Go call Children's Protective Services!, Fire him for calling his daughter names on a cell phone call. This is sick.
We are living in an age where the Conservatives look down their nose and miss Big Brother's eye staring back at them as they feel all satisfied and smug in the immolation of another poor soul.
My goodness, how the beautiful people live, hum?
No, I’m not.
...thus she did not answer his call.
TMZ.com had the video of Alec on Letterman making fun of his daughter who was probably watching.
I so agree with you. The trouble with childhood abuse, even for people who survive it, it the need to reinvent yourself. It sounds like you were able to make a sensible cut-your-losses decision, but for many people the void is unbearable; or for others, the behaviors and hurt are buried and denied, and then because they are not faced up to, they are often passed on to the next generation.
A great friend of mine heard my end of the umpteenth guilt-mongering phone call from my mother and finally said three words that changed my life: "S**t rolls downhill."
Then I would leave a voicemail to tell her that I didn’t appreciate the disrespect that she showed me. I’m her father, and my parents are her granparents and my brothers and sisters and their children are her uncles, aunts and cousins. I would not stop leaving voicemail messages, either, because she is my daughter and she’s eleven years old. She’s not an adult, she’s a child and I am her father. What don’t you understand about that? Do you kids tell you what their going to do and if you don’t like it, tough? What would you do? Well okay honey, Daddy loves you, just call me whenever you need something? Two different paradigms, and I do not understand yours.
An immature ass to be precise. For an adult to let an 11 year old make him this mad is a classic sign of immaturity, along with being an ass. I would imagine that the daughter has been through rants like this before and that is probably why she wouldn't answer the phone. I wouldn't have answered either if he talked to me like that. Divorce or no divorce.
It would appear so.
Too late, genius. You broke your daughter’s heart...that’ll take decades to mend.
You mean like Stephen's family?
Respect is earned. Baldwin is no longer in a position to demand it via his authority, and evidently he hasn't done anything to merit it.
Sounds a lot like “the woman did give to me of the apple, and I did eat...”
Methinks someone has arrived at the truth of this situation.
And to Jo's prayer, Lord, I would add that You might give brother Stephen an opening to share Your love to his brother who is do deeply in need, and I also pray for this young girl who has been so deeply wounded by her parents, that You would heal her completely in every part of her wounded heart.
In Jesus loving and precious Name!
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