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April 20, 2007

Alec Baldwin to Daughter: ‘I’m Tired of Playing this Game With You’

“Extra” spotted Alec Baldwin just hours after his explosive telephone tantrum to his 11-year-old daughter Ireland was heard from coast to coast.

“I am going to get on a plane, and I’m going to come out there for the day, and I am going to straighten you’re a** out,” he threatened his only daughter with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

However, when Alec appeared on Letterman the same day he left the voicemail, he gushed about Ireland.

When Letterman asked how she was doing, he replied, “She’s great.”

On Friday, Harvey Levin, managing editor of TMZ.com, which broke the story, told “Extra” what may have led to this father’s fury.

“He called, she didn’t answer. He called again the next day, she didn’t answer. The third day, the tape that we have, is the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Levin dished.

And this just in to “Extra”: we’ve learned that Alec filed a motion in L.A. on Friday for a hearing to find out how the tape got out!

On his website late Friday, he told his fans, “I am most saddened that this was released to the media because of what it does to a child.”

Meanwhile, “Extra” is first with the news that since this message was left, Alec has spoken to Ireland.

Baldwin’s spokesman tells us, “He apologized to Ireland a week ago; he knows he was wrong.”

Alec was supposed to visit Ireland in Los Angeles Friday, but because of the voicemail leaked to the press, an L.A. judge has temporarily suspended Alec’s visitation rights.

What’s more, Alec has spent a cool $1.25 million in legal fees over the past six years and is currently writing a book about divorce.

He also recently told “Extra” how painful the legal process has been: “A real ugly, very filthy situation, which is not my favorite place to be.”

“This is the nastiest divorce I’ve ever seen,” Levin told us. “This is the war of the roses on steroids.”

“Extra” obtained a picture of Ireland and Kim just two days after Alec’s rant, and Basinger recently confided to “Extra” how Ireland is coping, saying, “She’s done amazing; she’s just an amazing person.”

While Alec longs to get his daughter’s attention, “Extra” has learned that the fate of his visitation rights are now up in the air; another hearing is set for May 4th.
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- Pat Lawson
Posted 04/22/07 06:43 PM
 

From all accounts we have only seen bad things about Alec in the press because Kim has some mental issues with public appearances. Do we have to wonder how a voice mail to HIS daughter ended up in the tabloid press hands? Come on people use your heads.

Kim herself admitted she has serious mental issues with being in public. To the point of major break down anxiety attacks. Alec calling her psycho during the divorce may have been extreme but he appears to put things out there in the correct context-of course the press never points out that he was right later on as they want this hot head image to stick. It seems he was forced to live in a cave the whole time he was with Kim because of her mental fears of everything around her.

Most people know that kids of wealth like this are already a hand FULL. Much less kids like this who are on the power trip of being able to pit parent against parent after a divorce that only makes them turn into more of a brat while the parents lose the formative years to straighten them out and lead them on a good path.

We have seen how “brilliantly” these kids who come from wealth have turned out thus far…Paris Hilton, Nicole Richey, etc, etc. Looks like they all need-ed a strong parent and so far anytime a parent who has a backbone tries to do a thing with their kid the press eagerly jumps in to stop them and calls it abuse with only one side of the story. That same press will be first in line to show what a screwed up young adult these kids turn out to be from not having a real adult in their life during their childhood.

Alec does NOT owe his kid an apology. The fact that she demanded his only communication in between visits were on the phone on HER terms, and on HER time, speaks volumns for why the man probably lost his cool. He is the parent after all and if Kim is that messed up in the head then this kid needs some serious direction from a real adult in her life because she is not getting it from her Mom.

Mark my word…. Alec may be painted as the “hot head abusive Father”- which I think shows more proof he is not a hollywood phony- but if this kid doesn’t get some serious parenting she will be out there in a few years with the loser rich brats who are pissing their lives away and making fools of themselves.

Let’s hope all these people screaming to make her father lose his parental rights remember this and they had better show no pity for the brat gone wild later because she was left with a mother who appears she couldn’t even tend to her own mental issues much less set healthy boundaries for a kid. besides that a tongue lashing should not make him lose his brat kid. If the courts are throwing kids back into the arms of sexually abusive parents and drug abusers we had better not be seeing this man lose his kid because he dared to talk with her when he was ticked. I heard not one cuss word. I heard a parent who was fed up with the mind games of his EX and fed up with a child setting the rules instead of the adults.

Karma baby….what comes around goes around and the dirty press tricks will come back to haunt Kim. When these kids become adults they turn on the passive loser parent who let them do whatever they wanted without boundaries and they turn to the parent who demanded respect and took the time to lead them and guide them. If the child stays with Kim later she will pay for years for her inaction to take charge as the kids parent. She will hear about it for years. As her kid loses job after job, refuses to get an education, refuses to support herself and plants herself on her couch, her kid will ask her, “What was wrong with you? why didn’t you stop me? why did you let me do all those things? Didn’t you care about me? I needed an adult in my life and instead I got a mess for a parent and you drove away the only parent I had who could have helped me make better choices.” Then she will get to take care of that newly created adult mess of a child for the rest of her life until she finally GETS it that all kids need parents, real ADULT parents and she had the chance to give her kid TWO parents who could have equally shared in the parenting to guide her on the right path but instead watsed much energy trying to shove the only hope her child had out the door.


- Anonymous
Posted 04/22/07 03:13 PM
 

Give me a break! Everyone is jumping on the “holier than thou” train, aren’t they? I mean, he was wrong to call his daughter a pig, but we can’t condemn the man for this one phone call. He may be horrible, his ex may be horrible, his child may be a brat, for all we know, The fact is that we shouldn’t even be privy to a personal call that he made. Who are we to judge people from this one message? Who hasn’t gotten mad at their child and said too much? He apologized to his daughter.
I think that it’s unfair for people’s personal family conversations to be made public. How would you all like your messages or conversations to your children to be out there for the world to hear and interpret? It’s not fair to him and especially the child. I think whoever leaked is the real culprit. This should have been handled in private by people that really know the circumstances.


- diana
Posted 04/22/07 12:47 PM
 

Those who have perpetual foot-in-mouth disease on a regular basis need to join the group called Foot In Mouth Anonymous, so that they can talk with each other without, ahem, disturbing everyone else with their bad timing.
Mr. Baldwin, tsk, tsk, tsk.
Next time, partner, think before you speak, even while going through a difficult period in your life, which, apparently, is still ongoing. Ouch.


- Anonymous
Posted 04/21/07 09:37 PM
 

Alec Baldwin is a poor excuse as a father and an actor. He blames his ex-wife for all the issues in their marriage — I think I remember him calling her “psycho”. Hum.. unfortunately the truth always surfaces. What kind of parent pulls this type of emotional abuse on an 11 year old daughter? The sooner the courts get him out of Ireland’s life — the better off she will be. The whole divorce, that has lasted way too many years, is only doing emotional damage to that child. I pray that she will be okay.


- Lily
Posted 04/21/07 08:09 PM
 

ALEC BALDWIN HAS A PROBLEM BECAUSE HE CAN NOT HANDLE THE FACT HE IS NOT THE BIG SOUGHT AFTER MOIVE STAR. I LOST ALL RESPECT FOR HIM LONG AGO REGARDING SOME OF HIS OTHER RANTING. YOU CAN BET THE RANCH THAT KIM HAS ENDURED A LOT OF HIS RAGES. HE ALWAYS TRIES TO BLAME EVERYONE BUT HIMSELF. THANK YOU TMZ FOR SHOWING WHAT A COMPLETE JERK HE IS. AT SOME POINT IRELAND CAN TELL HIM TO GET LOST FOREVER. THE SOONER THE BETTER. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IF HE WANTS TO BE A FATHER, GO OUT THERE AND FIND ANOTHER WOMAN TO HAVE CHILDREN WITH. NO, HE WANTS TO BLAME KIM, AND PLEASE FEEL SORRY, FOR POOR ALEC. GIVE IT UP. WE DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR YOU. AT THIS POINT I DON’T KNOW ANY ONE THAT EVER WANTS TO SEE HIS FACE. SO MOVE ON.


- taylor
Posted 04/21/07 06:29 PM
 

Here we go again with another celebrity shoving his foot down his thoat.
Celebrity guys, no more of that garbage, please!
What’s up with celebrities callously having bad cases of perpetual foot-in0mout disease, anyway?
I’ve heard of attentiuon-getters, but this is the worst kind of attention-getters when they do racial slurs, insult their own kids or do badly timed racist rants during comedy routines.
Folks, this is a low kind of narcissism in the worst way.
Alec Baldwin and the others mentioned should join a group called Foot in Mouth Anonymous.
I don’t want to know who will be the next member of this dubious celebrity support group at all…..


- Anonymous
Posted 04/21/07 05:37 PM
 

Now can you just imagine what this child
witness in her home between the parents

Who every leaked it great job because
now the Judge will be force to see what
Kim was saying all alone.

What would he have done to the daughter
if she was in his present say about
15 minutes after the phone call.

Wake up courts Child Abuse is real stop
him before he do to her what he did to
the mother


- Jan
Posted 04/21/07 02:23 PM
 

When I heard this taped message for the first time, my stomach turned. I felt sick for his little girl. I can’t imagine being her and listening to that voicemail for the first time…all 11 years of her. It’s amazing how quickly Mr. Baldwin tries to distract people to what the real issue is - his out of control temper. If this is how he speaks to his child who he loves, I sure wouldn’t want to hear how he speaks to people he loathes! I think that the only reason that he is sorry for this whole thing is, because now people can hear what a monster he can turn into when he’s angry. Anger and frustration are normal emotions…what I heard on that tape is anything but a normal response to a frustrating situation. That poor girl should only have to see him under strict, supervised conditions. Alec…get help…if not for you, then for the lives of those people you will ruin with your verbal abuse. If it was Ms. Bassinger who leaked the tape…so be it. Maybe this will put some light on an otherwise overlooked situation. You do what you have to do to protect or save your child.


- Robin
Posted 04/20/07 11:58 PM
 

Having these things said to me my entire childhood from my own mother people must know that this will devastate & effect her FOREVER!!! This is clearly emotional abuse & I hope that the courts decision reflects this truth & his daughter is protected from this pathetic excuse for a father or man!!!!!


- Tabitha
Posted 04/20/07 07:57 PM
 

What a creep. I have 4 children (one troubled teen , one 11 year old, and two toddlers.) I cant imagine speaking to any of them like that, for any reason. He has anger issues!


- Tracy
Posted 04/20/07 05:26 PM
 

I do not agree with the way Alec spoke to his daughter, he made himself look like an A**. But, I dont think that anyone had a right to release this to the media. Even though he is in the wrong by saying these terrible things, whomever leaked this to the media should also be held responsible. And we all know that this has be one of the worst divorces of all time, all in the public eye. It seems to me that Kim has also done her share of bad, but dosent get judged near as much. If she is trying to turn their daughter against her dad that is as low as one can go in my opinion. There is two sides to every story and in this case we only here what gets the most reactions. We all need to remember that we all make mistakes no one is perfect and would we all want the worst thing we have ever done or said to be put out there for everyone to pick apart. I dont think so!!!


- Karla
Posted 04/20/07 04:55 PM
 

I find the message that Alec left his daughter reprehensible. I used to be on Kim’s side because I was married many years ago to a man with a short fuse like Alec Baldwin. However, I have now lost alot of respect for Kim Basinger. The only possible way this message could have gotten out is if she released it. She has probably spent the past 3 years turning their daughter against him because she hates him so much. I don’t think either of them should have custody of their daughter under these circumstances. What happens between parents should not be foisted on a child especially not under these circumstances and definitely not publicly. The kids feel guilty enough as it is. A child should always be encouraged to have a relationship with both parents and should always know that both parents love them equally. I know from watching friends that in the end, the parent who pitted the child against the other parent is the one who loses ultimately when the child becomes an adult.


- Jasmine
Posted 04/20/07 04:46 PM
 

I heard the message this morning while I was taking my son to school. I was glad he had gotten out of the car before it aired. As a person, and human being, I am disgusted. No one should speak to another person in that manner, let alone their own child. And for him to say his ‘friends’ told him not to worry only shows his friends also need parenting classes. If this is what Kim endured while being married to him, I say good riddance!! If I were the mother, he wouldn’t get within ten feet of my child until he received anger management and parenting classes. This man has some serious issues that were there lonnnnng before his daughter started missing his phone calls. Maybe this is why she misses them.


- Lynnette
Posted 04/20/07 03:07 PM

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