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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31. OKAY GEES.........

YOU PEOPLE ARE SO JUDGEMENTAL.... THIS MATTER IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS... ITS NOT MINE EITHER, BUT I'M SO SICK OF YOU "PERFECT" PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO NEVER MAKE A MISTAKE, COMING ON HERE AND JUDGING ALEC. YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF THE SITUATION THATS GOING ON.

I BET YOU PEOPLE HAVE LOST YOUR TEMPER A TIME OR TWO? OH WAIT, I FORGOT, YOUR ALL PERFECT...! (note the sarcasm)

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

32. TO: Juliet Bosch FROM; Stan

Ms Bosch...had the Dad's phone calls been allowed to occur routinely, there would not have been an inappropriate message like that.

Think of what the child is being told about the Dad by the Mom. How the child knows when phone time is yet Mom takes her somewhere...or does not ensure that she is available, etc.

Things like that eliminate Dads. Most divorced Dads don't abandon children, they love them but are blocked.

I am in CT and in this state at least...not once have endless visitation obstruction, phone issues, false allegations, etc ever lead to any issue for my son's Mom. She is allowed to do as she pleases with zero accountability. That leads to missing Dad's and high stress for the Dad's trying to be Dad. Like Baldwin.

He's right.

Posted at 5:30PM on Apr 20th 2007 by stan

33. There is NO excuse whatsoever for this type of behavior. None.

Get therapy, Alec. You need it.

Posted at 5:30PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Me

34. QUIT blaming Kim she is not the saying those things to her own child. All he is doing is blaming everone else for his failure as a father. U cant call him a Dad because a Dad would not to his little girl like that . Why dont U soend some money on Anger Management U need it very very bad!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 5:31PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Hunkycam06

35. Sorry Alex there is NO excuse for YOUR verbal abuse of your daughter as she is a pawn in the middle of your wifes & your fighting. She as a child acts like one and when she is being manipulated by either side is going to act accordingly right or wrong. Its so sad that your child has to be the middle of this and for the sake of your daughter start acting like loving parents instead of two hate filled people wanting your own way and putting your daughter in the middle having her pick sides. For the sake of your daughter you both either have to learn to put the past behind or you will see what you BOTH by your actions have done to your daughter as children live what they learn and SEE as she will be the brunt of your fighting of it and LIVE IT OUT later in her life. Stop now for her sake.

Posted at 5:32PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Shoshanah S.

36. It's no ones business what Alec B and his daughter conversed about. It is ever worse that his wife and lawyer leaked this private matter that they were discussing.
I feel for the young girl and what she has to endure with both of her parents. She will suffer the most in the end.....the kids always do.
I hope both of them will look at what they did and think of what they are doing to this child.
Letting the whole world hear this makes me wonder how much her mother loves her.
Was she using her daughter as a pawn to get back at Alec Baldwin.....it makes one wonder!

Posted at 5:32PM on Apr 20th 2007 by #7

37. She'll probably end up like I have--fearful of commitment, and never wanting to take a chance
on marriage/family. That's what comes from having an abusive father. I was always
afraid I'd end up with an s.o.b. who will be just as bad as my father, if not worse.

Posted at 5:32PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Diane

38. OMG! How are you going to say things like that to your child??? You should have been saying those things to the mother who has the control over your daughter...And what makes you think Ireland would want to come see you after you threatened her like that, That is what it sounded like.. a threat! YOu should have a conversation with your daughter and apologize a dozen times........

wr

Posted at 5:32PM on Apr 20th 2007 by wr

39. Frightening! The worst is that he says he is coming out next week, friday the 20th, to "STRAIGHTEN YOUR ASS OUT". Make sure you are there. Rude little pig.

That would terrify any 11 year old.

Now he is going to trash the mother and daughter in a BOOK? This guy is nuts. He rants about the "trouble" it is to find a phone to call her. CELL PHONES! Get one.

And this is only what WE have heard. Imagine what goes on when he has that poor child alone.

Posted at 5:33PM on Apr 20th 2007 by alec is a rude little pig

40. If you are on the edge, maybe you should take a break for a while. In the mental hospital!

Posted at 5:34PM on Apr 20th 2007 by areu144k@hotmail.com

41. Read this man's statement. He thinks the worst part of this episode is that 1. the whole world heard it, 2. because Kim violated a court order.

No you fat disgrace of a man, the worst part is that you attacked your child in this manner. I guess if Kim hadn't released it you could have kept up your victimhood status and cried on Larry King's shoulder.

You cowardly piece of garbage. You just don't get it do you? Your career is over bud. Your daughter may be all that you have left so I wouldn't destroy that too.

David

Posted at 5:35PM on Apr 20th 2007 by David L. Burt

42. Mr. Baldwin: Speak with your daughter about it and give her a big hug and a kiss and tell her how much you love her and didn't mean a word of it. Tell HER how sorry you are. A "normal" relationship goes both ways. Your daughter has rights also and is entitled to be treated with respect.

Posted at 5:36PM on Apr 20th 2007 by sharon

43. I think he should be fired from NBC!!!! The man is off his rocker>

Posted at 5:36PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Sally

44. If you call your daughter a pig or a bitch, that will stay in her mind her entire life long. An apology won't fix it. It might appear to fix it, but in her mind, the damage is done. A father is the person who shapes a daughter's life and who sets up all her future male relationships.

She will either look for abusive, violent men or will avoid men for fear they will turn out that way.

Now Alec and daughter have to head off for longterm counseling, for the sake of the child, in hopes of mitigating this lifelong damage he has inflicted.

Moms cannot influence children this much. Children make up their own minds very early and usually stand up for themselves if they need to. There are children who simply resent their fathers, hate them, hate the living arrangements they have set up and drag the child into. Children are independent people, not just bits of their mothers.

Posted at 5:37PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Knows

45. A corrupt kangaroo court, a.k.a. family court, with all members of the Bar; Judges and Divorce Lawyers will always take your money. They have no finacial incentive to resolve any disputes.

They divide and destroy families for profit. Then the mental health system starts making the money.

Custodial parents routinely manipluate children and drive non-custodial parents kooky. Escpecially if they love their children. If they didn't they would walk away.

The parent that holds custody, has control over the X.

Family Court Reform Now! Equal Rights for Parents is staistically better for children.

Posted at 5:38PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Alan DiCicco

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