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.
Well...I will fess up...I am not a Hollywood celebrity! :0)
However, I have lived all over and travel a great deal. IMHO, living in a fish bowl is just more reason for this mother to act selflessly and put aside her own vindictive agenda and place the interest of her child above her own desire to villify her ex-husband. My statement was not so much made from a sense of privacy as from a place of maternal protection
Please know, I am in no way excusing what Alec did and find his “apology” quite offensive. As a mother, I just cannot fathom how Kim could have possibly thought her actions were in any way in Ireland’s best interest.
My prayer is as you said, that despite this painful situation, that somehow it will prove to be a watershed event in the lives of both of these “parents”.