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 [sic] 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.
–Alec Baldwin, responding on his website to the questions, concerns raised by his bizarre voicemail rant to his daughter.
Dear Alec,
I feel very sorry and understand the frustration you must feel after all the roadblocks that are constantly thrown in your path. It is hard enough being a parent without having the other parent (a mother's influence in the strongest influence a child can have) repeatedly undermining and poisoning the mind of your daughter. I feel for you and I know that anyone can lose their temper. It should never, I repeat, never been made public. That only proves your point that your ex-wife will go to any lengths to insure the break between you and your daughter. Maybe you will have to back out for awhile with Ireland until she begins to understand that there are two sides to every story. At some point she may resent her mother for causing this but that realization won't happen for awhile if ever. I am very sorry for your struggle.
I enjoy you so much on 30 rock. You are an amazing comic actor as well as a dramatic one.
I have 2 grown sons of my ownLuckily, my ex-husband and I tried to never say anything bad about each other and tried to always maintain a friendship that we have till this day but I've watched this sort of behaviour from my 2nd and 3rd husband's ex-wives. It is frustrating to watch let alone be a part of. I can't think of any mother being more selfish with less concern for their child's welfare than the kind that engages in this sort of bitterness.
I have lost my temper with my sons and said a lot worse. Of course I am not proud of that but my boys have turned out to be fine young men and wonderful fathers. Keep the faith and try to step away from this if you can. Forcing any issue at this point may be an effort in futility.
Take care,
Paulette Queler
Everyone without sin please go ahead and cast a stone.
Everyone without sin please go ahead and cast a stone.
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Anyone who has experienced this type of verbal abuse as a child understands the damage it causes. Does anyone honestly believe this is the first time he ever talked like this to his daughter? It is just the first time it was exposed.
He has a history of anger problems. Yes, he has stress, we all have stress in one way or another. Is that the excuse?
there is clearly a reason why he has been subjected to parental "alientation"…..he has an anger management problem…..there is NO excuse for his behaviour…he is more worried about "who" leaked the tape than his verbal abuse of his child…….seek help Alec
I can hear the frustration coming out in his voice. If you have ever had to battle anyone for custody, then you know it is really hard to focas anger where it should be. I am sure Kim Bassinger (really dirty to release conversation-how is Daughter supposed to feel when she see's how use her to get at Alec) has made it a point to have Alec jump through all kinds of hoops for him to see/talk to his kid. I hope the media will be as forgiving of Alec as they have been to Bill and Hilary Clinton.