This does NOT sound like someone who is fighting for SOLE custody of his child - sounds more like he DOESN'T want custody. If Alec didn't want this to get out, he shouldn't have said it! There has been NOTHING private about his divorce & custody battle!! I hope the judge revokes his visitation permanently, as well as his parental rights - and still make him pay child support!

This does NOT sound like someone who is fighting for SOLE custody of his child - sounds more like he DOESN'T want custody. If Alec didn't want this to get out, he shouldn't have said it! There has been NOTHING private about his divorce & custody battle!! I hope the judge revokes his visitation permanently, as well as his parental rights - and still make him pay child support! ---------------------------------------------------------- Um, on what grounds? That's a pretty ridiculous statement to make.

I find it amusing that this "accidentally" was leaked just days before Alec was to pick up Ireland. I hope you are lucky enough to never have to live with a vindictive ex as I have. The lies, games and manipulations to make the other parent look bad all at the expense of the children. Do I think he should've spewed this on a voicemail? Never. Haven't we all done something we later regretted? Just because the court is involved doesn't mean a hateful spouse won't deceive the judge. Manipulating the system to be pitied is what they are after, regardless of what damage it does to the non-custodial's relationship with his or her children. No one should have parental rights taken away over saying something in haste... that seems a bit drastic.

The verbiage and tone of Baldwin's message to his daughter came across as demeaning and threatening, and certainly not the way one would expect a parent to talk to a child over which they were so fiercely fighting for custody. And chiding the child for getting along better with the other parent is not only petty jealousy, it undermines the child's capacity to respect any of it's elders. (If he really believes that his ex-wife is undermining his relationship with their daughter, he certainly is showing a lack of maturity and understanding by rebuking the child for it.) Baldwin's verbal attack is so lengthy, there was more than sufficient time for him to cool down and explain how important the call was to him. (After all, only one of them is 11.) But, he didn't do that, he just kept on restating his hostilities. I can't help but continue to wonder why he so desperately wants custody of this child, if that is truly the way he feels about her. On the surface, it sounds more like possession than love.

In haste? It went on and on and it was quite threatening in tone. He was the adult, if what you say is true and he believed Kim was behind his daughter not answering the phone, why did he verbally abuse the child and threaten her? The child is in the middle. Baldwin wasn't expressing anger at Kim he was clearly angry with Ireland.In this case he was the hateful father and this by the sounds of the voicemail wasn't his first verbal assault.

So what you are saying is that "The Bi--- MADE HIM DO IT"?? Please... As much as I agree that custody battles bring out the worst in people, there is no excuse for what Baldwin said to his child. He wasn't even cursing much at his ex-wife, he was chewing out his only child and it was way over the top. Simply put, he has now validated any and all allegations that he does have a serious problem with his temper. Period. No one wins in this.

I completely agree, everyone is a critic but no one wants to admit their mistakes. You know some kids would give anything to have a parent around even just to yell at them. I've heard bits and pieces of this divorce and battle and I have to say that yeah, I'm disappointed in both Alec and Kim as parents, especially since she doesn't seem to think he deserves to have a part in his daughters life. So here is my question for everyone that is simply bashing him, what is so wrong with a parent yelling at his child when they don't do as they are supposed to do? Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie have a show in which they do nothing but disrespect people all the time and we call it entertainment, Alec Baldwin tries to make a COURT assigned phone call to his daughter and she disrespects him by not answering, yet he gets grief because he yelled at her. Does that mean I should sue my parents for yelling at me when I grew up? What about Kim if she in fact kept her daughter from answering the phone? Will these same people bash her for not allowing her daughter to have a relationship with her father? If Ireland is even acting half like her mother Kim, it sounds to me like a little discipline is what she needs in her life. I fought with my parents just like everyone else did growing up, and at 30, I can admit that when I was the same age as Ireland, I could act like a little brat too and deserved any yelling at I got.

Has anyone determined why she didn't answered the phone when he was scheduled to call? She's eleven...sheesh!! If she was disrespectful, yes, she deserves to be verbally disciplined. However, he went completely overboard. He was ranting like a lunatic at his daughter. There's absolutely NO EXCUSE for saying the things that he said to her....even if he felt disrespected by her. No excuse at all!!

...Amusing? More like pathetic! While I have ALL KINDS of opinions on how this may or may not have gotten out...the bottom line is that no one knows what prompted the hostility coming from Alec ...there are TWO sides to every story! (and quite possibly 3 in this case)so for those of us who know NOTHING about what truly happen, the more we talk, the more stupid we sound!!! Get over it and pay attention to your own lives...clearly someone chose to use the public's own ignorance to help make Alec look like an ass...

Alec Baldwin was an abusive husband, so, of course, he's going to be an abusive father. There are films around (i.e. their going to save the elephants and they're on a plane) of Alec talking DOWN to his wife at the time. He likes to brow-beat women and anyone else who will stand for it. Kim Basinger is a easy going southern girl (Athens, GA) and she made a mistake marrying Baldwin. She does, however, have Ireland so that makes the past mistake worthwhile. It's time to sever the ties with him. Any judge should see his abuse. Archives of all sorts of films of them will show his true nature. I wish Kim would come on back to Georgia. It's not that far to LAX to ATL in time standards now. Can I say "jerk-a**" here?? In the south, only "sissy-boys", "girley-guys" push women around. ABC, thanks for the space here!

Have I been that mad when I couldn't speak to my daughter? Sure, and was I as mad as Alec?.. You bet, but I never vented on her like that. It was her mom... He isn't the only one to point a finger at. My Ex would do/say anything to piss me off, which in turn looks good in court, she's not innocent by any means. As for Stossles article talking about deadbeat dad's, I have for the last 14 years complied with the courts and the CSA and I continue to get the short, slipery end of the stick, when a father complies it's a free for all to screw him. My support ends next month, the Fed's took my tax return for what I owed for being out of work, no problem I have a $0 balance, but the state took all of my return too, and the CSA will continue to take from my paycheck until they get the $ from the feds, that takes 6-8 weeks, same for the state, the money I do get back I will not see for 8 weeks, screwed again.... for being compliant... for the last time... I hope.

I didn't realize Kim was here to speak for herself!  Seems you know the ins and outs of this relationship well enough to speak for the parties involved.  The problem here is Alec went off on Ireland's voicemail when he shouldn't have.  You can't vent your anger at the custodial parent because that will all get turned around on you in court.  Hey, I have an idea.  Let these people sort out their private life, oh I don't know... privately?  Realistically, who are we to judge?

His ex is nothing but another woman who knows how to work the system !!! she knows that he is not perfect just as she is not perfect . This is a woman with no morals and i guess the same could be said for him too because they both are putting their child through their HELL and not thinking of her mental outcome from their stupidity!
How she and the COURTS could even think that she is the poster child for good mothers is a mystery to me????
I fee the until the COURTS can send both parents to some type of THERAPY and fix their warped minds than both should get supervised visitations until they are BOTH or One is found to be stable enough to care for this fragile person who does not seem to have an opinion on anything.
I WISH LUCK TO ALL OF THEM AND I PRAY THAT THEY ALL GET THE HELP THEY NEED BECAUSE IF THE JUDGE DOES NOT PUT A STOP TO THIS MESS HE WILL BE SEEING THEIR DAUGHTER IN COURT FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE AFTER SHE HAS BEEN REBELLING AGAINST THE CRAP SHE HAS GONE THROUGH.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL