In 2007, Alec Baldwin made headlines after calling his daughter, who was just 11 years old at the time, a “rude, thoughtless, little pig.” After the shocking voicemail he left his young daughter was leaked to the public, Alec apologized for “losing [his] temper with [his] child.” He also claimed he had “a normal relationship” with his daughter Ireland, but had “been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years.”
Ireland, who is now 29 years old, clearly has not forgotten about her dad’s angry voicemail. During a recent interview with the New York Times, Alec revealed that Ireland gave him a Father’s Day gift that was inspired by the hurtful message: a Traeger Lil’ Pig free-standing pellet grill.
Alec told the publication that his daughter gave him the gift a few years ago, but he kept it hidden. “My daughter, Ireland, has a great sense of humor, and she sent me that to commemorate some unusual moment we had together,” Alec explained. Unfortunately for Alec, his wife, Hilaria, seemingly found the gift amusing too, prompting the family to take the grill out when Ireland visited.
“A couple of weeks ago, Ireland, her husband, and her daughter came to visit,” Alec explained. “Hilaria and Ireland have a similar sense of humor, which is at my expense pretty uniformly. So, we brought it out and cooked on it.”
On his family’s TLC show, The Baldwins, Alec touched on his relationship with his eldest daughter. “My relationship with my daughter Ireland was so negatively impacted by my divorce from her mother,” he said. “One of my most regrettable things about the whole thing was how it affected Ireland.”
Now, Alec is dad to seven other children, whom he shares with Hilaria. He said he wants to do better this time around. His second oldest daughter, Carmen, is the same age Ireland was when he left the hurtful voicemail. “I want to have a good relationship with Carmen because I have a girl all over again,” Alec said.
