8 Insane Outbursts That Got Celebrities In Serious Trouble

8. Alec Baldwin's Furious Voicemail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0-ZatDHug In 2007, Alec Baldwin left an angry voicemail message for his daughter, Ireland, in which he called her a "rude, thoughtless little pig" because she hadn't been there to answer his scheduled call from New York while she was in Los Angeles. Ireland was 11 at the time (a fact that Baldwin muddled by accidentally saying she was 12 before self-correcting), but the 30 Rock star gave her no quarter, questioning her human decency and calling Ireland's mother Kim Basinger a "thoughtless pain in the ass". Needless to say, eventually the phone call was leaked to the public and Baldwin was forced to do the media apology rounds to make amends. He seemed truly humiliated and later told Playboy that he had briefly entertained thoughts of suicide, but that doing that would mean Basinger's side would win - something he wouldn't allow. He even tried to get out of his 30 Rock contract with NBC so that his colleague's wouldn't be burdened with the fallout of the call. After this incident he made a concerted effort to improve his relationship with Ireland and even wrote a book about parenting and his difficult experiences being one, A Promise To Ourselves. So...being an angry dad gets you a book deal in the end?
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