Celebrity Justice
Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter

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, a family law judge was so alarmed after hearing the tape, she has temporarily barred Baldwin from having any contact with his child.
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After Ireland failed to answer her father's scheduled phone call from New York on April 11, Alec went berserk on her voice mail, saying "Once again, I have made an ass of myself trying to get to a phone," adding, "you have insulted me for the last time."

Switching his train of thought, Baldwin then exercised his incredible parenting skills and took a shot at his ex-wife, declaring, "I don't give a damn that you're 12-years-old or 11-years-old, or a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do." The irate Baldwin went on to say, "You've made me feel like s**t" and threatened to "straighten your ass out."

"This crap you pull on me with this goddamn phone situation that you would never dream of doing to your mother," screamed Baldwin, "and you do it to me constantly over and over again."

Before hanging up, Baldwin warned the child, "You better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me." That's tomorrow.

We've learned that on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner Maren Nelson heard the tape and temporarily suspended Baldwin's visitation rights. A hearing is set for May 4, where the judge could permanently deny Baldwin visitation or contact with Ireland.

Calls to Basinger's attorneys, celebrity lawyers Neal Hersh and Judy Bogen, were not returned.

Baldwin's lawyer, Vicki Greene, told TMZ, "Whatever happened yesterday was sealed and confidential. What you're telling me you've got you shouldn't have."


UPDATE: Basinger's publicist, Annette Wolfe, told TMZ: "The voicemail speaks for itself."


UPDATE: A friend of Alec Baldwin's just contacted TMZ to say that the actor called Ireland last week and apologized for his outburst. 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.


UPDATE: Alec Baldwin's spokesperson released the following statement to the TV show "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."



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5446. People should understand Parental Alienation before they judge Alec Baldwin. Alec did not handle this properly. He needs to understand parental alienation better. The mother is the one doing the mental damage to the child. Listen to the childs response to this call and see if that informaion did not come from the mother.

I've lived with parental alienation as a target father and I understand the pain Alec is experiencing. The mother is using the child as a weapon and has damaged this child.

Use Google and read up on "Parental Alienation" or "Parental Alienation Syndrome" before being to hard on Alec Baldwin. Research shows the best chance for the child to recover from her mental damage is for Alec to have custody. The mother is the bad parent and you will understand this if you really do your own research.

Posted at 9:45PM on Dec 11th 2007 by Parental Alienation

5447. He was 100% wrong talking to his daughter like that no matter how angry he was.
His anger should be towards the mother not her.
I have an 11 year old daughter and I would never talk to her like that but our visits were taking away because of well paid lying professionals in court and her mom knows I did nothing wrong to deserve my visits stopped.
I never talked bad about her mom to my daughter but she talks bad about me to her so I assume that's what this mom does. It's called Parent Alienation.
I think he should be kept away from his daughter for now and the parents get help for the sake of there daughter.
I wish my former wife would do it for the sake of our daughter but it will never happen it's all about her hate for me......

Posted at 9:53AM on Apr 12th 2008 by Ed Fulmer Sr.

5448. Maybe the kid ahould answer the phone

Posted at 1:43PM on Jun 30th 2008 by pat

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