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September 19, 2008

Baldwin Admits Thoughts of Suicide

Posted on September 19, 2008

Superstar Alec Baldwin has fame, fortune and a successful career -- yet he contemplated taking his own life. Baldwin and his "30 Rock" one-liners make fans laugh, but behind the humor, he suffered from suicidal thoughts.

The star revealed to Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America," "I would pray to God and say please don't let me wake up in the morning. A lengthy custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger, and last summer's fuming voicemail media spectacle made Baldwin think his life wasn't worth living, but Alec did not want give up on his only daughter, Ireland. "When I'm with her, I'm happy," he said. "It's one of the only times in my life that I'm happy."

Baldwin believes he suffers from parental alienation syndrome. "There are women who get divorced in order to punish, out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands... they turn their children against them."

Alec's memoir, "A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce" will be in bookstores this Tuesday.


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I think Alec is the pig, and what he said to his daughter was not only wrong but very cruel.No wonder his daughter does not want to talk to him. You will not find any sympathy here.


- London
Posted 09/19/08 04:26 PM
 
 

Alec has walk a mile in many men’s shoes. Watching what he was dealing with with his divorce and trying to maintain a parental relationship with his daughter brought back some difficult memories for me. The only thing that saves a sane man from suicide or murder is the fact that your child(ren) need you more than you need to eliminate either side of the problem,(suicide or murder). The only thing that saved my wife’s life is that she was the mother of my children, they were conceived out of love and that they needed their mother. There is a fine line between love and hate. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you a better man. Alec, you are a better man and a brother of sorts.


- David Zofko
Posted 09/19/08 04:21 PM
 
 

True, everyone makes mistakes as parents, and it is also true that some parents are NOT man enough to own up to them! But none the less, two wrongs do not make a right and judging him would make me just as wrong as he is. God bless him and especially his daughter who has to put up with him.


- Elijah
Posted 09/19/08 02:24 PM
 
 

i think he made a huge mistake n it’s something dat he n his daughter have 2 work through, not him n everybody else


- debbie
Posted 09/19/08 02:06 PM
 
 

Everyone makes mistakes as parents. Unfortunately for Alec, his comments were aired in public. I feel sorry for him. His family, friends and fans should forgive & forget. It’s time to move on!


- Gina
Posted 09/19/08 02:06 PM
 

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