Alec Baldwin Issues Apology but not to Daughter Ireland

Alec Baldwin verbally attacked his 11 year-old daughter Ireland yesterday after she didn’t answer his expected phone call. Today via his website Baldwin issued an apology. In the apology he outlines his plight as a victim of a court system that is anti-father, but he also points out that his first concern is for himself. No where in his apology does Baldwin take responsibility, nor does he appear to realize, that the first person he needs to apologize to is his daughter. (Listen to the voice mail here.)

Here’s Alec Baldwin’s message from his website:

Thank you to everyone who has posted messages of support and understanding. Naturally, it is not best for a parent to lose their temper with their child. 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 embarrass 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.

Although I have been told by numerous people not to worry too much, as all parents lose their patience with their kids, I am most saddened that this was released to the media because of what it does to a child. I’m sorry, as everyone who knows me is aware, for losing my temper with my child. I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand. ( Although I hope you never do.) I am sorry for what happened. But I am equally sorry that a court order was violated, which had deliberately been put under seal in this case.

Once my book is published, I’m sure more people will understand the incredible strains created by parental alienation.

In the meantime, I’m sorry to anyone who’s taken offense from this episode.