Sideshow | Baldwin leaves a nasty voice mail

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2007 | by Tirdad Derakhshani Inquirer Staff Writer

The sometimes hideous custody battle between  Alec Baldwin  and  Kim Basinger  just got more uglified, with the release of a remarkable phone message left by Alec for his 11-year-old daughter,  Ireland .

"You are a rude, thoughtless little pig," Alec tells the girl, who raised his ire by missing a scheduled phone call from him. "You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being," says Alec, before adding, "I don't give a damn that you're 12 years old, or 11 years old."

First posted by TMZ.com on Thursday, the voice mail had been beamed from here to Pluto and back, raising an outcry that threatened to bubble over by yesterday afternoon and had Alec making a dramatic statement of distress: "I'm sorry, as...