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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46. You called your daughter a pig. That's more than anger about an unanswered phone call. Your hate for kim consumes you. And i think you spoke to an 11 yr. old as if she were a woman. God, i hope both of you lose her.

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

47. You are an adult. You should know better than to speak to a child
like this! I used to be a fan of yours but I have no respect what-so-ever
for a supposed "man" who can call a child - especially their own
flesh and blood - such names!

Posted at 5:38PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Linda Reynolds

48. NBC has been getting rid of the reponses critical of Alec Baldwin. Not to mention the Va Tech video. What do they have against children? If he had called her a "stringy-headed ho" they may have had to fire him.

Posted at 5:39PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Save The Children

49. Umm...his book is not specifically about his ex and his child. It's more or less about the Family Court situation, how it does not work, how it encourages situations like this one.

They have had SIX YEARS of this pattern. Dad gets blocked. Mom is not held accountable in any real way. His contact with his daughter is already heavily restricted. He can only call her at certain times. He can only see her in a very limited manner. How many of you go through that? This is very common for a divorced man. Strangely enough..when a man wants and receives priamry custody..somehow things go better as far as schedules and the like go. Many other things too.

Posted at 5:39PM on Apr 20th 2007 by stan

50. Alec--you seem very adept at mind games. Your friends said "not to worry too much, all parents lose patience with their kids?" Are you (-------) kidding me? This wasn't losing patience--yes ALL parents lose patience. This was abuse and bullying. You frightened your child to death. You are shameful. Do not compare what crap you pulled here to loving parents losing their patience. It isn't going to work for you this time to blame others. Doesn't matter what happened in the past, or who did what---you screwed up BIG time and need BIG help. My prayers are with Ireland.

Posted at 5:39PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Janet

51. What a complete and total COWARD. Poor Alec. Maybe his custody wouldn't be in such a condition of disrepair if he was a responsible and NON-ABUSIVE father. This narcissistic loser should never be allowed to spend "un-supervised" time alone with his daughter again. Further, his contract with NBC should be cancelled. This poor girl deserves much much more....

Posted at 5:40PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Stephen D'Andrea

52. He just wants to be a good father...he should've taken out on his ex-wife but his daughter's a teenager. I'm sure she's "at that age."

How did a voicemail from her phone leak out to the media anyway? Little brat Ireland.

Posted at 5:41PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Vanessa

53. This man is in serious need of addiction treatment. He is a classic alcoholic/addict, blaming everyone else for his problems and taking it out on the people closest to him. He probably doesn't even know how much damage he has done to his daughter by abusing her in this manner. He needs help or to be kept away from her immediately.

Posted at 5:41PM on Apr 20th 2007 by an addiction counselor with 40 years of experience

54. parental alienation: bull crap. I'm reading this phrase a lot. It usually means one of the parents is abusive and the other is trying to protect the child from being abused. Nice try.

Posted at 5:41PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Boycott Alec Committee

55. NO EXCUSE. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for talking to a child like that.

Posted at 5:42PM on Apr 20th 2007 by dbp

56. The rock has been turned over, Dawg. OMG, it's nasty under there! Get some help. Please!

Posted at 5:42PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Get Therapy

57. I don't think I'll be buying his book.......... And yes, I do smell rehab next. This is a man who is more concerned with being "right" in the eyes of the public than in being a good father to his daughter. Shame on you Alec.

Posted at 5:43PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Maryannp

58. He is just a punk and a bully. He has a history of violence and has no class or self control. Anyone who condones his outburst to his little 11 year old daughter is a bully as well. I don't care what issues he has with his ex wife you do not take it out on your child! Abusive behavior should never be tolerated whether verbal or physical. He needs to go directly to anger management to deal with his demons.

Posted at 5:44PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Concerned

59. This has no place in the media. Yes the tape should have been presented to the judge but not the media.

There is a real problem with the custody rights in this country. Fathers are alienated, frustrated, pushed aside and many give up then are critized for that ,but he should have left his message on Kim's phone not the childs.

I wouldn't blame him if he just quit trying. Send the check and tell the child to call him when she wants to talk. If the mother is turning her against him there is nothing he can do. He is in a no win situation along with millions of other men.

Posted at 5:44PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Two men and a baby

60. He's busted, you vile pig!
Squirm piggy, squirm!

Posted at 5:46PM on Apr 20th 2007 by MBA -MSBADASS

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