Alec Baldwin being slammed on his own website.
Alec Baldwin’s voicemail rant to his 11-year-old daughter has provoked a torrent of criticism – on his own Web site.
Writes “Wendy”: “Never call your daughter a pig or brainless. She will carry this in her heart forever. Words are like toothpaste; once they come out there’s no putting them back where they came from.”
Seconds “Kayla”: “Grow up and think of that CHILD. Be a man for once. There is no way on EARTH you can justify calling your child a pig. NONE.”
In the voicemail, which appeared on TMZ.com last week, Baldwin, 49, calls Ireland, his daughter with Kim Basinger, a “rude little pig” and threatens to “straighten your ass out.”
His rep later said in a statement that Baldwin “acknowledges that he should have used different language in parenting his child” but that “everyone who knows him privately knows what he has been put through for the past six years.”
Baldwin himself blamed his outburst – and its leak to the press – on Basinger, writing on his Web site on Friday: “I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. … Everyone who knows me privately knows that certain people will go to any lengths to embarrass me and to disrupt my relationship with my daughter.”
Some visitors to Baldwin’s site take him to task for blaming Basinger. Writes “Sandi”: “Alec, even though Kim was wrong leaking your tape, you had no right leaving a message like that for your daughter. She is the innocent one in your very public and messy divorce.”
But many of the messages are supportive. “Alec,” writes “Kelly,” “I am sorry that the public feels they have a right to judge your situation. Stay strong, love your children, take the high road and don’t look down. You are a father and a man first.”
Adds “Sandy”: “Alec, stay strong! Until someone is put in your shoes they have no idea the pain you are going through, I had to watch it first hand with my son. It is devastating. I never used my son as a pawn. A child needs both parents. Good luck & god Bless.”
However, Baldwin was not treated as sympathetically in the press. On Saturday, in an article about the actor’s online expression of remorse, the The New York Post ran the headline: ” ‘Pig’ Baldwin Oinks Up an Apology.’ ” And on Sunday, the New York Daily News reported that fans were turning against Baldwin because of the tirade.
Baldwin has reportedly been barred from seeing Ireland until a May 4 court date. The actor’s rep, Matthew Hiltzik, told the Post that the actor will follow the judge’s orders, and said: “Alec truly cares about the best interests of his daughter.”
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
this gets my vote for what should be Ireland Baldwin’s response… nice and simple:The Voicemail Solution for Alec Baldwin’s Daughter
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Trust me they are scared and intimidated by him, as he has no real friends but cronnies he pays and works with, and we know what that custom of turn the other cheek to make money is like in Hollywood.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
As a mum of 2 I understand his frustration. I love both my children very much but have at times told them not to be such little shits. It’s not going to destroy them. Kids do shitty things sometimes and sometimes you call em on it. Really, everyone should back up and take a breath. It’s not like he calls her that everyday, right?
April 24th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
“Baldwin is a Man with a Broken Heart. He’s Lost His Child, the Person He Loves the Most’”
Dear martha,
Alec is a lucky man. He has only lost his daughter.
Every day thousands of good men (and now many women) are falsely accused of things that are just not true via of the divorce industry for financial or custodial gain.
Good parents who support their spouse and children for years and never committed a crime in their life find themselves behind bars and facing a court of subjective accusation based on feminist juris prudence.
Its accuse and punish. No jury, no trial, no due process. Its literally and accusation without proof and the parent is convicted and labled for life.
This goes on every day in America in the divorce industry.
These tactics are responsible for the high suiside rates for men falsely accused. Good men, hard working, tax paying Americans who are dying from this treatment and not one word of compassion is ever written.
Good parents loose their children, all their assets, criminalized and put into a system that enslaves them, deamonized by politically correct courts. They have no hope of ever recovering their careers or ability to fight back through the legal system.
Remember, Alec still has a roof over his head and food on the table, he doesn’t have sheriff officers dragging him to jail because he owes 500 dollars in child support or has been summended to court so many times falsely that he can’t hold a job.
Alec doesn’t have letters going to his only source of work telling them he is a deadbeat and must have his wadges garnished.
He doesn’t have a court order telling him to pay 600 dollasrs a week in child support and his paycheck is only 400 per week. While he worries when the next arrest will take place.
He wasn’t falsely accused of domestic violence yet, or sexual assault on his daughter yet, or have to face a a court ordered phycholigist telling him he is abusive because he wants to have a relationship with his daughter. He isn’t in a supervised visitation center with armed guards and cameras yet.
Good families are destroyed at the whim of the “professionals” that surround the divorce industry. Our own tax dollars are used to promote such a system.
Where was Alec Baldwin while his career and movie gigs were skyrocketing, money pouring in for the asking all while great Americans were being destroyed on a daily basis.
Now, he is expected to get compassion after his documented display of ignorance on a call to his daughter?
Well Martha, people do have compassion for him, but not the Alec Baldwin of the past, not the pompus actor that has not one ounce of compassion for his fellow man, children or the families that watch his movies.
Alec must humble himself to the fact that he is a victim of this system as is Kim and their daughter. The more
he continues to play in this system the more his daughter will be hurt. Its not about Alec Baldwin, it’s about his child and the millions of other children who are suffering needlessly today.
Alec must use every bit of the influence and fame he has as an actor to bring these issues to the attention or our legislative body for recognition and changes in the law that are so desprately needed. Not based on his case, but the cases that are effecting millions of Americans.
Its time Alec contact the people who are supporting families and children and learn all the facts.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I knew that guy was a douchebag from the start……
Now he’s UltraMegaDouchebag2000
April 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Just saw Baldwin on the view. What a jerk.