“You are a rude, thoughtless little pig.” “You don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being.” And “I don’t give a damn that you’re 12 years old or 11 years old or that you’re a child.” Actor Alec Baldwin said all this several years ago a voicemail left for his daughter. Incidentally, Mr. Baldwin, she was 11 at the time, in sixth grade. He and his equally famous spouse were divorcing, and the young girl had become an inconvenience for the wealthy celebrity. After much public pressure, he asserted that he was sorry, but added, “I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand. (Although I hope you never do).” It seems that child abuse is justifiable to Baldwin.

Equally well-known in his own lifetime was English

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