Alec Baldwin’s daughter Ireland has talked for the first time about his infamous 2007 voice mail in which he called her “a rude, thoughtless, little pig” — saying he often speaks like that “because he’s frustrated.”
Ireland, the 16-year-old daughter of Baldwin and Kim Basinger, thinks the incident — which created a viral scandal and prompted Baldwin to temporarily lose visitation rights — was blown wildly out of proportion.
“The only problem with that voice mail was that people made it out to be a way bigger deal than it was,” she tells Page Six Magazine, out today. “He’s said stuff like that before just because he’s frustrated.
“For me it was like, ‘OK, whatever.’ I called him back I was like, ‘Sorry Dad, I didn’t have my phone.’ That was it.”
Ireland adds that she and the “30 Rock” star laugh about the incident and nearly used it as inspiration for a comedy sketch. “We almost did something funny on YouTube, of me calling him and yelling at him.”
IRELAND BALDWIN DISCUSSES HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER FATHER
In the candid interview, Ireland also says she understands her father’s contentious relationship with the paparazzi.
“My dad has been going through it for so long, I can see how he gets frustrated,” she muses, addressing her own career by adding, “If acting or modeling takes off, and I make a name for myself, I can see how I might get pretty frustrated.”
Ireland, who lives in California but regularly visits her dad in New York, also says his new wife Hilaria Thomas, 28, has become like a “big sister,” though she does jokingly call her “Mom.”
“Hilaria and I are really close,” Ireland says. “She’s like a big sister to me, but I feel like I haven’t spent enough time with her yet.” She adds, “We joke around, and I call her ‘Mom.’ But I respect her, it’s not like I’m ‘Parent Trap’-ping her, setting up booby traps in her room.”
The teen, who admits to having had a drink, says she’s never used drugs and has chosen to save sex for marriage: “I just believe that sex is important and worth waiting for.”