Tell me this...what possible advantage was to be gained on Ireland’s behalf by the public release of this tape?
The answer is none.
Using it in a court where the documents are sealed could certainly have done much to keep Ireland from suffering future abuse from her father.
However, all Kim has done by releasing this to the public has been to inflict more pain on her daughter and it has been done pubicly. Do you not think that Ireland’s friends have now heard what her dad has said to her? She will have to continue living with the public fallout of what her mom did just to make her dad look bad in the media.
Someone should have been protecting that girl. Neither parent has done that.
By the same token, your point of view may therefore not be reckoning with the very different life celebrities and their children lead. It is a fishbowl that is not good for children to begin with, requiring huge efforts by the parents to keep the children out of the limelight — in this case, he just blabbed about his daughter on two television shows and Lord only knows who overheard his loud phone rant, which for all you know may have been recorded by a money-grubbing assistant in his own hotel suite as he delivered it.
While you may think the release of the tape is dastardly, a good case can be made that it is the only thing that can end this endless divorce and put Baldwin in his place, as he is quite obviously abusive, out of control, and wealthy enough to keep the abuse and jerking around of the mother and the daughter going on indefinitely. See post 167.