Extracts from Alex Baldwin's new book reveals all

There was standing room only at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Sunday night as New Yorkers packed the 2,100-seat theatre to indulge their heartfelt disdain for Donald Trump. Baldwin earned notoriety as a bullet-headed scrapper: fighting drug and drink addiction, challenging studio bosses who ‘failed’ to appreciate his brilliance, battling with actress ex-wife Kim Basinger in their ugly divorce, tussling with the media and even becoming involved in a public row over nasty comments he made to his 11-year-old daughter Crawling across the floor of his hotel room, he managed to phone a friend who drove him to hospital. One studio hand said: ‘Their actions were vile, deplorable, despicable.’ Baldwin never commented on the reports at the time, while Basinger admitted making the film was ‘the worst situation anyone could imagine — ever’. One studio hand said: ‘Their actions were vile, deplorable, despicable.’ Baldwin never commented on the reports at the time, while Basinger admitted making the film was ‘the worst situation anyone could imagine — ever’ ‘It was heartbreaking’, says Baldwin, apparently sincerely. After seven years of legal fighting, Baldwin — frustrated that Basinger was getting her own way — left an angry voicemail message for their daughter in which he called her ‘a rude, thoughtless little pig’ for avoiding his phone calls Proving self-pity runs in the family, Baldwin likes to recall how his father told him that ‘parenting is a competition between two people where the dad always wins the bronze medal’.