Whoa...Ouch...Alec Baldwin

[weaktwos]

MSNBC is reporting that Alec Baldwin lost some custody opportunities with his daughter since he left an angry voicemail on his 11 year old daughter's phone.

First of all, it's rather humorous that he says, "...you have insulted me for the last time." Of course, he was so very wrong, because Kim Basinger made it public.

So, what do you think, gentle reader? I'm thinking that everyone's parent has lost it on occasion. I shutter to think how all parents if all their comments were recorded. In this case, we get one angry phone call. I mean, hasn't everyone's parent blown their stack at least once when the child is being disrespectful and/or mean?

It's a shame that it was made public like this. If Baldwin has a trend of being a lousy parent, that's for the courts to decide. Playing this out in the public eye seems quite petty.


So, parents: don't leave angry tirades on voicemail, okay?

Comments

[hotcoffeems.livejournal.com]

THe "rotten little pig" and "ungrateful pig" thing was wholly over the line (my boss had some channel on that played it). Clearly his level of anger was...inappropriate. This was verbally abusive.

I dunno: I don't think the way they've made this a public spectacle serves anyone, but OTOH, the fact that there's this fool who thinks he can bully people -- and be verbally abusive to his 11-year-old? -- maybe people who act like this need to be pointed out as the ugly bullies they are.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's no doubt those comments were hurtful, and it was definitely stupid. And fortunately he's well off enough for therapy. But still, I don't think it should have been made public.