Losing your temper and saying stuff you regret later is one thing, but Baldwin went way, way, way beyond that. He called her a pig, twice, and he threatened her. He couldn't even remember her age in that rant. There was no fatherly love in that message - that was nothing more than a boorish, egotistical sack of dog crap with a grossly exaggerated sense of self worth using his little girl to play dominance games with his (I'm sure) equally sleazy Hollyweird ex-wife. But Kim Basinger's trashiness is a whole other issue, and if he had directed that rant at her, it would be a whole different deal.
If I had an 11 or 12 year-old child, and if any adult had called my home and left that kind of message for him or her, I would have driven over to that son of a bitch's house that night and stomped him into the ground.
Bravo post!
I sent the link of this to my daughter on the other side of the U.S....she listened THEN called me right away to ask what the heck that was. She hadn’t heard it in the media yet. One of the first things she said was that HER dad would NEVER talk like that to her even at 23, let alone 11.
With civility like Baldwin’s version it’s no wonder the custody battle still rages on.