Alec Responds: "I've Been Driven to the Edge"

Posted Apr 20th 2007 4:55PM by TMZ Staff

Alec Alec Baldwin swung back at wife Kim Basinger, slamming "certain people" who he says, "will go to any lengths to embarass [sic] me and to disrupt my relationship with my daughter."

In a statement on his website alecbaldwin.com, Baldwin apologizes for "losing my temper" but is "equally sorry that a court order was violated," and maintains that despite his now-public tirade he has friends and "respect from people I work with," and what he claims to be "a normal relationship" with daughter Ireland. Here's the statement in full:

Thank you to everyone who has posted messages of suppport 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 embarass 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.

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16. What a moron and a whiner. He is trying to say that Kim Bassinger's breaking a court order is more serious than his tirade against his innocent daughter. This goes to show how removed from reality this man is.

He is a coward who is not fit to be a parent. If someone had a gun to my head and told me to call my daughter a "pig" I would take the bullet every day of the week regardless of what my wife did to me.

This man is a disgraceful piece of garbage. I have no idea how is ex-wife is, but I don't care. Next I guess we will have to hear him whine that he beat his daughter up because her mom didn't answer the phone.

David

Posted at 5:23PM on Apr 20th 2007 by David L. Burt

17. What not to give him for Father's Day. Gun Permit. Get it? Please don't tell Alec that I wrote this, hokay? It wasn't my fault. It was that WITCH Kim.
So there!

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Just Say No

18. HE'S RIGHT.

"I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand."

I have experienced the same sort of alienation attempts, false abuse allegations, and even been attacked by my ex. And worse.

I can't tell you how many times i have opened up a bit to those who have not experienced similar...more or less they don't get it. At the same time those that have experienced the same types of situations can finish each other's sentences.

It is too often very hard for Dad's to get a fair shake in Family Court. Baldwin is right, and an out of context illegally released phone message is understandable.

To "fix" messages like that you don't shoot the messenger, you look to the root cause. If he is able to follow his tiny visitation and contact schedule...such messages would not occur. This means that MOM needs to stop blocking, discouraging contact and to start encouraging and allowing contact.

Stan

Stan

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 20th 2007 by stan

19. 4. Good for you! Be the bigger person. Kids are smart - they will automatically go towards the parent who has their best interests at heart. On the other hand, if one parent is malicious towards the other parent the kids will close themselves off to that parent for fear they will be treated in like manner. While this might take time, eventually Ireland will choose for herself.

Posted at 5:16PM on Apr 20th 2007 by SP

I think she already has.

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 20th 2007 by RU Kidding Me

20. What kind of an idiot are you. I heard the telephone call to your daughter! How dare you call her a pig! YOU ARE THE PIG YOU WIFE BEATER! I will never see another movie with you in it. You have proved what a low life you are. You told your daughter to be ready on the 20th as you were coming out there and straighen her out - how by a slap in the face! I hope you never see her again - you need help.

Oh and #1 YOU ARE NUTS.

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 20th 2007 by OH BITE ME!

21. 12. YOU ARE A MORON AND A FOOL IF YOU THINK THIS MAN IS A BAD DAD .. i AM A MOM AND I KNOW FATHERS SUFFER OFTEN FROM MOTHER'S BAD INTENT CAUSING CHILDREN TO TURN AGAINST THEIR DADS.... THIS IS ONE INSTANCE OF EXACTLY THAT .. ALEC BALDWIN IS A DEVOTED LOVING FATHER. AND IF IT WERE YOU OR ME, WE WOULD BE MORE ANGRY AT THE ACTS OF ANYONE LIKE KIM BASSENGER WHO HAS DONE EVERY MEAN THING SHE CAN TO CAUSE TROUBLE WITH THIS KID. SHE IS A ROARING B!TCH AND THIS CHILD IS HER TOOL. And, I am not a fan of Alec Baldwin because he is far left and I am right on Reptublican but politics is not the issue... this Alec Baldwin is a hurt and damaged dad who loves his child unconditionally and reacted no less than I .. or anyone else who is a good father .. ALEC IS A GREAT DAD AND KIM IS A MENTALLY UNSTABLE EVIL MOTHER WHO USES HER CHILD AS A PLOY AND DENIES HIM THE FEW RIGHTS HE'S BEEN ABLE TO KEEP. Stop pretending you'd be good .. you'd be worse than he ..and I would too .. count on it !!!

Posted at 5:20PM on Apr 20th 2007 by VAL

You've already been called out Alec, get off the blog and start scripting an apology to Ireland. You rude, thoughtless little oinker you!

Posted at 5:25PM on Apr 20th 2007 by ImaVictim=Baldwin

22. Waaa! He was busted on that tape, that is who he is. Not just a one time "lost it" .. Shame on you people that believe him and feel sorry for him. Get a clue! His abusive personality has has been brought up before.

Posted at 5:26PM on Apr 20th 2007 by JR

23. how pathetic that he is "sorry for what happened, but equally sorry that a court order was violated". sorry he was an ass, and just as sorry that the world, once again, sees how big of an ass he really is. what a wonderful father.

Posted at 5:26PM on Apr 20th 2007 by lisa

24. I dont care how bad it is between you and your ex wife! How could you talk to your child like that? It is so uncalled for. The problem that people have is that they do not know how to keep the child out of the relationship. You should be ashamed of yourself. Leave your daughter out of it!

Posted at 5:27PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Shana

25. This is a person who has repeatedly had public outbursts of rage and outrageous behavior, with his family, co-workers and strangers!

Insttead of blaming everyone else (pulling a Britney?) why doesn't he
take an anger management class before he ends up in hand-cuffs.

The Baldwins are completely whacked-out

Posted at 5:28PM on Apr 20th 2007 by J9

26. like you all are so close to this situation and know it intimately. he was VERY wrong and should be punished. imagine the hurt that his tirade caused ireland. he should have thought about that before unleashing his anger at her. i don't know who's fault it is that he is like this (though i would suspect his own) but it was sure as hell not ireland's. if he's mad at kim or anyone else he should grow a pair and confront them not go off on his impressionable daughter.

Posted at 5:28PM on Apr 20th 2007 by dmbasses

27. Hm!
Is thia Alec(smart) Baldwin who left this country 6 years ago becouse Bush was elected President?
Well now he does not have any thing to do (politycaly speaking),and screams and badmouth his litle girl.
Shame on you Smart Alec.

Posted at 5:28PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Shvantze

28. Alec...I believe you are a good man who loves his child. But your verbal abuse to her is inexcusable. No one talks to a child the way you talked to her. And I must wonder if this is a one time only incident...I doubt it. Calling Ireland a pig and alluding that she was stupid is no different than punching her in the stomach with your fist. I have always enjoyed your work from the beginning. I don't know the history of your relationship with your ex but this child should not pay the price for for the problems that exist between two adults. Both of you get your act together whatever it takes for the sake of Ireland. You two adults are not what's important here. Ireland is. All the best...Debbie (CASA) in Colorado

Posted at 5:29PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Debbie

29.

I CAN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THAT HE TOOK THE TIME TO MENTION HIS BOOK...

ISN'T HE IN ENOUGH HOT WATER??

Posted at 5:29PM on Apr 20th 2007 by pookie

30. Poor Ireland- she is stuck between two bitter parents. I think Alec's rage was towards Kim not to Ireland. It is a mother's OBLIGATION to make sure that her daughter speaks to the father on the SCHEDUELED TIME AND DATE. I think Kim is a bitter woman who is not aware how much damage she is doing to her own blood. I think Alec is a good dad, for God's sake, I wonder how many calls he had to make and not find her daughter picking up the phone, to get this desperate. Poor guy, really

Posted at 5:29PM on Apr 20th 2007 by SupportAlec

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