Update: Alec Baldwin is really pissed at his daughter
Update 3 pm: Alec has posted a message on his website, which reads,
Thank you to everyone who has posted messages of support and understanding. Naturally, it is not best for a parent to lose their temper with their child. Everyone who knows me privately knows that I have endured a great deal over the last several years in my custody litigation. Everyone who knows me privately knows that certain people will go to any lengths to embarrass me and to disrupt my relationship with my daughter.
In such public cases, your opponents attempt to take a picture of you on your worst day and insist that this is who you are as a person. Outside the doors of divorce court, I have friends, I have respect from people I work with and I have a normal relationship with my daughter. All of that is threatened whenever one enters a court room.
Although I have been told by numerous people not to worry too much, as all parents lose their patience with their kids, I am most saddened that this was released to the media because of what it does to a child. I’m sorry, as everyone who knows me is aware, for losing my temper with my child. I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand. (Although I hope you never do.) I am sorry for what happened. But I am equally sorry that a court order was violated, which had deliberately been put under seal in this case.
Once my book is published, I’m sure more people will understand the incredible strains created by parental alienation.
In the meantime, I’m sorry to anyone who’s taken offense from this episode.
Click below to read the original post detailing the voicemail and lawyer responses.
Update 8 pm: For those of you doubting the authenticity of the recording, it’s for real. His spokesperson released this statement to Extra,
In the best interest of the child, Alec will do what the mother is pathologically incapable of doing…keeping his mouth shut and obeying the court order. The mother and her lawyer leaked this sealed material in violation of a court order. Although Alec acknowledges that he should have used different language in parenting his child, everyone who knows him privately knows what he has been put through for the past six years.
According to TMZ, Alec called Ireland last week and apologized. In addition, the friend of Alec’s who told TMZ this says that Ireland is the most important thing in the world to Alec and that he is frustrated because over the last six years, Kim has "tried everything" to alienate Ireland from him.
Originally posted April 19th at 5 pm: Alec Baldwin was beyond outraged when he couldn’t reach his and ex-wife Kim Basinger’s daughter Ireland Baldwin, 11, for their scheduled phone call on April 11th. Calling her a "rude thoughtless little pig," he left the following out of control message on her phone’s voicemail…
Hey I want to tell you something, okay, and I want toleave a message for you right now, cos again it’s 10:30 her in New Yorkon a Wednesday and once again, I have made an ass of myself trying toget to a phone to call you at a specific time. When the time comes forme to make the phone call, I stop whatever I’m doing and I go and Imake that phone call at 11 o’clock in the morning in New York and ifyou don’t pick up the phone at 10 o’clock at night and you don’t evenhave that goddamn phone turned on.
I’m tired of playing this game with you. I’m leaving thismessage foryou to tell you that you have insulted me for the last time. You haveinsulted me. You don’t have the brains or the decency as a humanbeing… I don’t give a damnthat you’re 12 years old or 11 years old, or a child, or that yourmother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn’t care about what youdo as far as I’m concerned.
You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone and whenI come out there next week. I’m going to fly out there for the dayjust to straighten you out on this issue. I’m going to let you knowjust how disappointed in you that I am and how angry I am with you thatyou’ve done this to me again.
You made me feel like sh!t and you’ve made me feel like a fool over and over and over again. And this crap youpull on me with this goddamn phone situation that you would never dreamof doing to your mother and you do it to meconstantly and over and over again. I am going to get on a plane and I am going to straighten your ass out when I see you.
Do you understand me? I am going to really make sure you get it.That I’m going to get on a plane and I’m gonna turn around and comehome. So you better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me. So I’mgoing to let you know how I feel, about what a rude little pig youreally are. You are a rude thoughtless little pig. Okay?
A recording of the entire disturbing message is available on TMZ.
The call may cost Alec his visitation rights with Ireland – afterhearing a recording of the call, Los Angeles County Superior Courtcommissioner Maren Nelson temporarily suspended Alec’s visitationrights and set a date for a hearing on May 4th. His visitation orcontact rights might be permanently cancelled.
Even if Alec isn’t legally prohibited from contacting her, Ireland might not want to see him anyway.
Thanks to Oscarwatch’s Sasha.
Do you think this is acceptable behavior for even the most angry and frustrated parent?
