- Alec Baldwin on Divorce, Children and Reconciliation - Part 2
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Actor Says Many Divorce Judges and Lawyers are 'Corrupt, Inefficient, Lazy, Stupid'
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Baldwin's clashed with Basinger for nearly eight years: there are hundreds of documents, 91 court proceedings so far, and about $3 million in legal costs.
But it didn't start out like that.
'All Dissent Was Abuse'
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger at the Sony Theaters Lincoln Center in New York City.
Baldwin told Sawyer that he and Basinger came into marriage much like anyone else, except that they were two of Hollywood's biggest stars when they met on the set of "The Marrying Man" in 1990. "I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married."
Not long after they met, Basinger told ABC News that she thought Baldwin was "something else" and hoped that he was nuts about her.
Two years after their 1993 marriage ceremony, their daughter was born.
But by the time Ireland was 5, the marriage was unraveling.
"I'm sure she [Basinger] would tell you ad nauseam, she might even be more chatty about the warning signals she saw in me, you know," said Baldwin. "The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive. And getting into the details doesn't matter 'cause it's not good for me legally to do that and it's not good for my daughter."
Ireland is unquestionably the love of Baldwin's life. He won joint legal and physical custody of her in 2004 and has racked up tens of thousands of frequent flier miles traveling between New York and Los Angeles to satisfy his custody visitation schedule. He sees himself as a good father and says he has met every court requirement that Basinger's side has thrown at him, including anger management classes.
"When I'm with her, I'm happy," he said. "It's one of the only times in my life that I'm happy."
In some ways, though, Baldwin believes that the separation with his daughter began before she was born.
"I think when my daughter becomes an adult, she'll be fully cognizant of the fact that she's estranged," he said.
At the time this story was published neither Kim Basinger nor her representative could be reached for comment.
Continued from Page 1Baldwin's clashed with Basinger for nearly eight years: there are hundreds of documents, 91 court proceedings so far, and about $3 million in legal costs.
But it didn't start out like that.
'All Dissent Was Abuse'
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger at the Sony Theaters Lincoln Center in New York City.Baldwin told Sawyer that he and Basinger came into marriage much like anyone else, except that they were two of Hollywood's biggest stars when they met on the set of "The Marrying Man" in 1990. "I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married."
Not long after they met, Basinger told ABC News that she thought Baldwin was "something else" and hoped that he was nuts about her.
Two years after their 1993 marriage ceremony, their daughter was born.
But by the time Ireland was 5, the marriage was unraveling.
"I'm sure she [Basinger] would tell you ad nauseam, she might even be more chatty about the warning signals she saw in me, you know," said Baldwin. "The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive. And getting into the details doesn't matter 'cause it's not good for me legally to do that and it's not good for my daughter."
Ireland is unquestionably the love of Baldwin's life. He won joint legal and physical custody of her in 2004 and has racked up tens of thousands of frequent flier miles traveling between New York and Los Angeles to satisfy his custody visitation schedule. He sees himself as a good father and says he has met every court requirement that Basinger's side has thrown at him, including anger management classes.
"When I'm with her, I'm happy," he said. "It's one of the only times in my life that I'm happy."
In some ways, though, Baldwin believes that the separation with his daughter began before she was born.
"I think when my daughter becomes an adult, she'll be fully cognizant of the fact that she's estranged," he said.
At the time this story was published neither Kim Basinger nor her representative could be reached for comment.
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