Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter »
Posted by: SarrahA 1 year, 4 months ago173 Comments Report this Story
An enraged Alec Baldwin unleashed a volcanic tirade of threats and insults on his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig," and bashing her mother Kim Basinger -- and TMZ has obtained the whole thing unfiltered and raw. And, we've learned, the tape could cost Baldwin his visitation rights.
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angelfal21 year, 4 months ago
It sounded to me that he was specially planning a trip to kick her a$$. Would any one want to be that 11 year old when today came? Can you imagine the kind of damage it does for an 11 year old hear her father call her a pig?
While I do agree there is a huge invasion of privacy, Im sure the little girl is thanking her lucky stars that she didnt have to face Alec today so he could take his issues with Kim out on her. Judging from the recording, im guessing it would have been just a wee bit violent.
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Buggzter1 year, 4 months ago
Why do you have to bring politics into this? Yes, Alec Baldwin is an ass, but what does that have to do with being a "liberal?" I mean, look at Bill O'Reilly. He's a complete jackass and so full of himself. Also, he claims that he's a true Independent...BS! (However, we all know he's totally conservative).
Put the politics aside for a moment and just see this situation for what it is: ALEC BALDWIN is an ASS and a horrible father! Simple.
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johnkamis641 year, 4 months ago
I'm a liberal VETERAN...If this jagoff was in my sights I would not hesitate.
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philogical1 year, 4 months ago
Look the facts are simple and if you think that this story will get legs and walk then you do not know the left as well as you think you do. This story is a 2 hour story at best and no one really cares. Yes the man appears to have mental problems, but he is an idle to the left because of his big garbage spewing mouth, so why think that anyone but the right would worry about him and what he might do to those that he once said he loved.
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easeup471 year, 4 months ago
First of all, its idol not idle...second, I've never seen anything to suggest that Baldwin is a hero to the left. Considering yourself "on the left" does not automatically make you a hero to the left. He's just one crazy guy to me. It's nice to know we can count on netscapers to politicize the hell out of everything though.
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ramblingwreck1 year, 4 months ago
Baldwin and the media have politicized his out bursts by broadcasting them every time he attacks a conservative (particularly Bush). He is what he is and it is disingenuous for the liberal side to attempt to disown him now because he chose to speak to his 11 year old daughter in the same manner.
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coreyspring1 year, 4 months ago
If you look back Baldwin and Basinger have had a pretty nasty history with each other, especially over their daughter.
I'm not by ANY means defending him for berating his daughter with profanity or anything, but honestly I think this is the sort of thing that really isn't any of the public's damn business... just like it's none of my damn business to know all the tawdry little details of your own family's drama. There's something to be said for Basinger's own childishness for leaking this and in effect trying to tell the word Baldwin is a bad daddy.
I don't know, coming from a divorced home, I just loathe seeing parents using their kids to pull power moves, ya know what I mean?
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skeek1 year, 4 months ago
corey.spring
I agree. The guy flipped out, he shouldn't have, it would be better if he hadn't, and he's apologised regardless. It happens. Anyone who has kids can understand this. Anyone who has kids living with the pressures of divorce can understand this.
How and why this recording, on the other hand, finds its way off voicemail and into the public domain suggests the truly sinister intent. That takes some real understanding.
It's nobody's business but their own.
As for jabby, you're a jerk.
You either don't have kids or, if you do, I pity them. I can't imagine you'd fair any better under such circumstances, judging by your infantile and malicious posts. Seek help.
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Meimei531 year, 4 months ago
The mother released the message. Nothing sinister or "real understanding" needed there.
My kids adore me, yet I've gotten upset when they've hung the dishtowels so sloppily they fall onto the floor immediately after - 2 years this went on. Eventually, I really gave them hell, used some pretty rough words. They are in their late teens. Then I caught our chihuahua tugging them from the rack when he thought he was alone. I apologized to my kids and they thought it was a hoot. Yelling at your kids isn't necessarily the worst thing, not if other things are good. Alec just went off. And his ex is lousy to release a personal message. She could've given it to a judge if she wanted to get tough w/custody. Maybe she's afraid he'll hit the kid. Altho I think every kid should be smacked once in their life just to know what it's like so they will restraint themselves with their own children. But then, Joan Crawford is my idol.
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zaph221 year, 4 months ago
It probably isn't a good thing that that message got released, but I think Baldwin forgot one thing, if you call someone and leave a message, it's out of your control, and they have every right to let anyone they'd like to listen to it. Voicemail and answering machine messages belong the one the message is left for. He wasn't thinking right when he left the message or he never would have attacked his own child that way, and he would have remembered that his daughter, or her mother, could do just what they did with the message, whether it was a good idea or not.
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ramblingwreck1 year, 4 months ago
This reeks of "do as we say, not as we do". How many "conservatives" have apologized to no avail? How many times did Imus apologize to no avail? Come on, quit trying to have it both ways.
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vidman041 year, 4 months ago
"Why is this crap a "top story" on Nutscape?"
This your first time here on Nutscape? This is NOTHING compared to all the 9-11 truther crap and whatever Rosie O'Donkey chooses to rant about! Those stories are ALWAYS Top stories......Oh, I forgot about all the bash Bush stories, (which is EVERY story submitted on Nutscape)....
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architekker1 year, 4 months ago
jabby must be cho #2, what's next? You're silence finally broken? You hate the rich? what else? Your nickname ishmal knife?
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Sabretooth1 year, 4 months ago
Wow, it never fails to amaze me how Americans will politicize anything and everything to belittle their countrymen, very sad indeed. That would be like saying all Republicans support recruiting and training terrorists in Iraq. You might try leaving the party politics for articles that actually involve them.
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traveler20001 year, 4 months ago
This whole story is a PRIVATE matter and should not be made public (in that way). I don't see the need to make this "news". Don't the newspapers and TVnews have more important things to tell?
More importantly, we don't know the whole story or what happened before (or after).
Because of that we can NOT judge.
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traveler20001 year, 4 months ago
I know. That doesn't make it "newsworthy". Or did she put it in as a payed "ad"?
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Hamlet1 year, 4 months ago
Having been to hell and back with a terror like
Baldwin, including 11 custody cases up to highest court levels in two countries over 9 years, I have an idea that this guy has been playing out an incredible drama on this little girl. It does not matter that it was made public (altho private, it is really him & truly vicious) what matters is that the judge made a correct call on stopping the abuse. If that is how AB talks to a child he wants to love him, imagine what the marriage was like - also for the child having to personally deal with assualts like this. The claim by an abusive parent that the other parent is trying to alienate the child is a common tactic.
The best thing that ever happened for my kid was to finally be removed from the reach of the abuser - a right she chose to continue when of age to make own contact.
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Meimei531 year, 4 months ago
It sort of bewilders me how what started as marriage, willingly entered into and children conceived because the couple wanted children could degenerate into such a mess as you've described in your life. Not to blame you, but were you really young and dumb when you married? Abusive people show their tendencies fairly early in a relationship. I know, I've dated that kind, and they were out of my life as soon as the signs showed. What kind of a person did you marry that would put you and your children through such a terrible course of custody battles? Or does he truly believe he has reason? I feel for you. Me and my husband have an agreement: whoever wants out of the marriage has to take the kids. That way, no one goes anywhere.
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angelruse1 year, 4 months ago
With all due respect, when did taking the children become a punishment? My aunt just got out of a marriage from Hell and all she's wanted since getting out of it was to take the kids. She loves her kids and wants them out of a bad relationship (a father that has said over the phone things like "I can hurt these kids.") But because he's an engineer at Ford and makes a good deal of money, he can pay for the lawyers that can lie for him and make him look good.
I just find your statement a bit odd, I guess, and the person that agrees with you, because I don't understand where the "threat" or "penalty" is. Don't people WANT their children?
I certainly have no kids, don't want any, but if I chose to enter into a responsibility like that (which I wouldn't do lightly) you can bet your booties I'd want to "take the kids" if I left.
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eviln3d1 year, 4 months ago
Give me a break. That wasn't child abuse. Maybe not the best way to handle a situation but get real. You have only one part of the situation, for all we know the little girl had called him 50 times before an then hung up on him. The fact is you've got a parent yelling at his kid. He ain't hitting her with a coat hanger, putting cigars out on her or breaking her arms.
Claiming that yelling at your kid is child abuse does nothing but belittle actual abuse and increase the chances that parents will raise more little killer Chos because yet another method of correcting bad behavior is being taken away.
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angelruse1 year, 4 months ago
Actually, making threats and calling names is technically considered "emotional abuse", and if proven, can be used in a courtroom.
Yelling is one thing, I agree, but there's a difference between yelling, "Why do you do these things?" and calling a child a name or making threats that go beyond disciplinary actions. Kids SHOULD be corrected, not psychologically battered.
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kiki57111 year, 4 months ago
I've said worse to my kids when they've annoyed the hell out of me.
big deal with baldwin!!!! and pretty scummy of the mother to have it go public.
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Meimei531 year, 4 months ago
I can agree with kiki's point. Baldwin sounds rather immature, the kid is only 11, but we don't know the full story. The mom has probably been playing a telephone game with him, he's overly sensitive to a kid's inconsideration, and it seems like he had his feelings hurt tremendously. He should dig up a little more maturity and just call his daughter again. Getting angry won't make the kid call him, and the mom has custody, the kid's probably seen Alec be verbally if not physically rough on his ex, the kid probably holds a grudge. But it was a personal message and the fact that the mother made it public shows that she isn't much, either. If I was in that position and my kid, who I loved a lot, kept dissing my phone calls, I'd be hurt, but I wouldn't be so stupid as to leave that kind of message, esp if I was a celebrity. And I don't like Alec Baldwin, so I'm not prejudiced in his favor.
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ntuitive11 year, 4 months ago
I'm not defending him but I think his wife is probably doing more harm to the child by making the tape public than his comments.
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Meimei531 year, 4 months ago
Those statements will haunt her her entire life? Oh please, what is she, a hot house orchid? Everyone's parents get angry, justified or not, and most kids grow up fine. In my experience, the parents who never say anything but sweetness and light to their kids, those are the ones that grow up nuttier than fruitcakes. They grow up expecting everyone to give them a pass on everything they do. It WAS inconsiderate of Ireland not to have her phone turned on. Her dad had his feelings hurt. We don't know how good a father he is. Yelling does not necessarily a bad father make. And I don't like Alec Baldwin. But really, this is not news, just gossip.
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Commodore11 year, 4 months ago
It looks to like Baldwin hates everyone. What an icehole. But that's a nazi liberal 4 U. It's their do as I say and not as I do attitude and also their "I could care less" attitude toward children. At least the judge did something about it. Some of your more "prominent" liberals will probably blame the child for this and say Baldwin was justified. Then they will probably take action against the judge for doing something. No, nazi liberals aren't predictable. Hee! Hee!
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amazed1 year, 4 months ago
((The friend added 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.))
Doesn't seem like Kim really needs his help to alienate the kid. He's doing that well enough on his own.
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Meimei531 year, 4 months ago
I think Alec is immature and can't control himself very well. He sounded to me more hurt than anything and he expressed it through anger. He did sound rather threatening to the child, but then, it also sounded rather hollow to me. I don't know, tho. I DO know that I liked Danny Baldwin in last week's Sopranos.
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Rodkev1 year, 4 months ago
I thought the sissy baldwin was leaving the country after bush was elected
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easeup471 year, 4 months ago
He is not a lib spokesman. He's a celebrity who happens to be liberal and runs his mouth a lot. He wasnt nominated. I've never seen anything suggesting he is an idol to liberals. I am a liberal and I read liberal publications and I've never seen a "what did alec say this week" column. its the equivalent of saying that Mel Gibson, after his drunk driving/anti-semitic tirade, is a conservative spokesman. Its ridiculous.
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madmaxine1 year, 4 months ago
Maybe not but you can read his blog on the most liberal site
I know of that is so popular it has been on the national news.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/
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spikecwc1 year, 4 months ago
Considering the thoughtless crap he says on his blog, it's no wonder his daughter is acting that way.
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mscsrrrcom1 year, 4 months ago
I have always thought of Alec Baldwin as the good guy and enjoyed watching his movies as well as those of his brothers, not because they are from New York but for the fact that they are great actors.
It is obvious that when parents divorce they often take out their anger on their children.
I believe that this must be what Alec had done when he called his daughter Ireland a pig.
Using such a word to admonish an 11 yr old kid is very harsh and can be considered verbal abuse and can get Alec in serious trouble, so I hope he changes his ways.
The divorce between Alec and Kim was one of the most terrible Hollywood's marriage tragedies because they were so perfect together as husband and wife.
I was never happy about that divorce!
Instead of continuing their legal battles, I wish they forgive one another, kiss, make up and get back together.
Ikey Benney, New York City
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Teaselle1 year, 4 months ago
I agree with you to some degree. I thought they were a good couple as well. They constantly battle (remember, The Marrying Man) and have no thought for how this is affecting their daughter. His tirade was uncalled for. He didn't know what she was doing and to berate her like that was sinful. However, Basinger allowing the tape to be released to show how Baldwin acts, according to her, is worse. She put her family's laundry out there for everyone to hear. She had no more consideration for Ireland than Baldwin did during his tirade. If I were a judge I would emancipate that child from the two of them and allow her to live with anyone but the two of them. If I were Ireland, I would in Barrymore's footsteps in Irreconcible Differences, and divorce both of them, ask for support and find a kinder family to live with.
Both of them need parenting classes and should be fined severely and the money give to Ireland in a trust fund. She may need some serious therapy when she grows up.
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jumpmaster1 year, 4 months ago
Just wait until the Canadian authorities get a hold of him.
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kriicket1 year, 4 months ago
I heard this on the news this morning!! What a piece of work !
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saneman1 year, 4 months ago
I sure hope a protective order is issued against Baldwin. When it comes to one's own kids, this is totally unacceptable behavior. I don't care what that person's political affiliation is when it comes to kids. Calling your own kid names and telling the kid that you are going to starighten her out is totally unacceptable. Talk about a narcissist. The sun doesn't revolve around you, Baldwin.
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