ALEC BALDWIN ISSUES APOLOGY
Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin in better times !
Alec Baldwin issued an apology 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. 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. "You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being - I don't give a damn that you are 12 or 11 or a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care what you do." Baldwin then tells his daughter that he is going to fly to Los Angeles to "straighten" her out. In a statement on his website, alecbaldwin.com, posted today, the actor said he had apologised to his daughter for his actions, suggesting that the stress of legal battles with Basinger had tipped him over the edge. "Naturally, it is not best for a parent to lose their temper with their child," Baldwin said. "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. "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." Baldwin's spokesman said in an earlier statement that "in the best interest of the child" the actor would "do what the mother is pathologically incapable of doing - keeping his mouth shut and obeying the court order." The statement said Basinger and her lawyer leaked the tape in violation of a court order, and that Baldwin regretted the choice of language used. Basinger's lawyers hit back at the spokesman's explanation today. In a statement to TMZ.com, celebrity lawyer Neal Hersh said the actor's response showed he was "out of touch". "I am concerned that Mr Baldwin's recent statement, wherein he attempts to shift responsibility to Kim and her lawyers for his issues with Ireland, shows just how out of touch he is with the reality and gravity of the situation," Hersh told the website. Baldwin and Basinger, the star of LA Confidential, split in 2001 but have been locked in bitter legal wrangling related to Ireland's custody and visitation rights. Basinger was charged with contempt of court last year for violating a 2004 custody arrangement. A Los Angeles court rejected a bid by Basinger's lawyers to have the charges dismissed this week.Labels: ALEC BALDWIN, CELEBRITY DIVORCES, GOSSIP, IRELAND BALDWIN, JAMES EDSTROM, KIM BASINGER
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I don’t know when I have been so upset about the lack of professionalism, common sense, respect, and limits the media will go to for ratings.
The harm of Alec Baldwin’s phone tirade to his daughter is only outdone by his opposition in this nasty, protracted custody battle who released it, and the media who have aired it over and over – every single word of it! It never should have been said. Having been said, making it public was equally wrong and shows the tit-for-tat madness this child is enduring. That it was aired, shows the media’s total disrespect for decency.
None of any of these people, not Baldwin nor Basinger this innocent 11-year-year old’s mother or father…nor the press…has any concern for the child who is being humiliated over and over and over again! The parents involved have their reasons, albeit bad ones, for being so upset. The media is without any redeemable excuse whatsoever to exploit people shamelessly.
Fox’s Inside Edition brought on their “expert” – a psychologist to explain the permanent lifelong damage the phone call will do to this child. How can you air those words while knowingly contributing to, and exacerbating publicly the personal harm already experienced by this child? Replaying it is like repeatedly raping and flagging this vulnerable child in the public square. What happened to not releasing victims’ names??? What happened to any decorum whatsoever? Sweeps week sweeps it all away!
Children should never be subjected to such hate – on the part of either, much less both – of their parents. Both parents, and the media should be found guilty of child abuse!
I don't think you know the Baldwin family that well... There is so much hate, why wonder Kim wants Ireland to stay away from them. Sorry, I disagree with you. And fox does not produce Inside Edition, it is a King World Production owned by CBS. But anyway, keep reading and thanks for your imput !
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