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Alec Baldwin Bullies His Child - Is He All Bad?

By Laurie Sue Brockway

Remember back to the day when Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger were the most beautiful couple in Hollywood?

Way before Brad and Jen, Brangelina, Bennifer and the parade of power couples that have come since, there was golden girl Texas-born Bassinger with the dark, slighty brooding Baldwin from Long Island.

They met on a movie set at a time when he was the hot and handomebad boy that every woman desired. She was the beautiful blond people just loved to watch on screen. They were both huge stars. Columnist Liz Smith once said of their match that they are so beautiful and talented, how could they not love each other?

Back then, Bassinger had severe stage fright -- she later went public as having an anxiety disorder -- and Baldwin seemed to be her knight in shinning armor. He even stood by her and held on to her (seemed to be holding her up) when she hosted Saturday Night Live years ago.

His outgoing nature and her nervousness seemed a perfect match. When they had their child, Ireland, back in the day when only a few paparrazi were sitting outside the house waiting for the return from the hospital, Baldwin made the headlines for almost sacking a photographer for coming too close to his wife and daughter.

Over the years he was known as someone with a short temper, and she was known for being shy.

I think she has gotten over her shyness.

How do things go so awry between two people? How do the kids get caught in between. The Baldwin-Bassinger union is just one public example of how nasty it can become when two people, once in love, fall off love's pedastal into the darkness of a nasty break-up.

Some people say Bassinger released the recent ranting phone message Bladwin left for their daughter, Ireland.

We all agree that regardless of the situation with the mother, or father, it is hideous when a frustrated parent lets lose on a child with threats, name calling, insults. Worse, it becomes public and brings even more shame to the child.

Sadly, this family dynamic has already been exposed. But what can we all learn from it?

No one summed this story up better than my friend Dr. Judy Kuriansky, a columnist for the NY Daily News. She's the shrink, so I wanted to share her insights with readers. Check out her column.

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Comments

Al Sharpton demands Alec Baldwin be fired!

Here I am across the pond in dear old merry England and yet still I can see with eyes so clear the self seeking publicist at work again. For indeed why else would Al Sharpton pop up as if like a bee on a honey pot whenever there is sucker to be found? What’s even more interesting is that this guy is a Reverent and as such is supposedly in the image of God. Yet where is the compassion where indeed is the understanding and more importantly where is the Christ like forgiveness as he engages in yet another fellow human beings business? I say this to the Rev Sharpton as I do to the religious or dare I say pious bigots who spoke out against Alec Baldwin in the enclosed article:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/us.christian.leaders.alarmed.over.hollywood.actors.threat.to.daughter/10468.htm

If you have been through the anguish and pain of parental alienation as both Alec Baldwin and I have and continue to do so, in my case for some 8 years then I'm quite sure that both the Rev Patrick J Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defence Coalition, and the Rev Rob Schenck, President of the National Clergy Council in Washington DC should be well able to find scripture that leads to Gods understanding and forgiveness in such matters and not preach retribution, Colossians chapter 3: verse 13-14 springs aptly to mind.

What also must be born in mind in this case is the intense emotional and psychological pressure placed on an estranged father. One only has to read the works of your fellow American Dr Richard Gardener on Parental Alienation and the devastation it causes not only to the child being alienated but also the one it’s being alienated from to see the mental torture it creates within its victims. So yes Alec snapped and yes his daughter and pawn in the middle took the brunt but as I know only to well from my own experience there comes a point when rational, momentary though it may prove to be is overtaken by the intensity of such pressure and this I must emphasize incorporates a father’s love denied invariably by an acrimonious force whose intent may be all to clear and as such can cause one to falter. I for my part can only but empathise with Mr Baldwin having both experienced this destructive force and studied its format under the heading of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) which incidentally is classed as psychological abuse when used on a child; such is the gravity and nature of the beast employed.

Hence with empathy in mind for both father and daughter I have no reason to doubt that Alec is mortified by his actions and as such will with every support and endeavour seek to make amends by prioritizing his inner emotions in favour of his daughter Ireland’s best interest.

It’s for the above reasons and given the tirade of thoughtless publicity of late that I make the enclosed response, for who am I or indeed anyone else to cast the first stone at Alec Baldwin?

no matter what strain and torment alec baldwin was going through the mesasge he left was cruel and thoughtless. why does he want custody so baldly?
the job of a parent is to be a loving, caring role model, not a bully.

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