September saw the publication of his first book, “A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey through Fatherhood and Divorce.” Strictly embargoed prior to publication, the book is an exhaustive and harrowing tale of Baldwin’s experience in divorcing Kim Basinger, and subsequently petitioning for joint custody of his daughter Ireland. Though he has laid his experience bare on the page, he has kept press to a minimum – the only print interviews he has granted have been to the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times, while he will also appear on The View and 20/20 to promote the book. Indeed, gaining an audience with Mr. Baldwin to talk about this work required three months of steady requests, the signing of a confidentiality agreement, and the vetting of this reporter’s past work by Baldwin’s office.

Finally, an hour was agreed to in the midst of Baldwin’s busy schedule, on the set of the television show that has changed his professional fortunes and catapulted him to Emmy nominations and a previously unrealized talent for comedy.

Baldwin tossed the ball far and it bounced off a truck’s door. He motioned to the sidewalk in front of the hotel, grabbed two folding canvas chairs, setting them up facing the traffic and fixed this reporter with a smile.

He responded to an initial compliment about the heartbreaking nature of his book.

“Thank you,” he allowed. “Hopefully this book will lead to something positive, whether or not it leads to an examination of the family law system is another matter. But I wouldn’t say the book is harrowing, though everyone in my life who knows me thinks that the book is very fair,” he trailed off with a quiet chuckle.

Trucks roared by on the thoroughfare a few feet from where he sat. An assistant came up to him holding a suit jacket. “You have ten minutes,” she said. “You want me to touch you up in there or on set?” Baldwin shrugged. “That’s what I thought,” she said, lingering. “Hey, I gotta work on my passing skills,” she announced.

After she walked away, Baldwin turned back and said, “What was the question?”

It is mentioned that while his book is careful never to insult his ex-wife, it certainly does read as an indictment of the legal profession as it relates to family law, though ironically, in the second chapter of the book, Baldwin turned away two pit-bull lawyers who could have changed the outcome of his experience dramatically.

“It’s arguable,” he allowed. “It might have been a better strategy to have a visceral lawyer in a high conflict divorce. But I was seeking a lawyer who I thought could mediate the case and resolve the conflict. Little did I know the other side wanted to keep the conflict going forever. I mean, they fired the mediator, they threw us into open court. The most damning thing I can say about the other side is that they have never once recognized my rights as a father. They have sought to deny my visitations regularly. The courtroom was paradise to them. They couldn’t wait to get back in there.”

But given that the custody case is ongoing, and given the gag order on the case, was there ever a concern that writing a book about the case might cause an adverse reaction?

“I don’t expect them to acknowledge or agree with anything I’ve said,” he said.

“They will say these are the reflections of a bitter man. When these things don’t go well they just think you’re a sore loser. They will say, ‘well you married her.’ The lawyers and the judges, they look at all litigants and they hate them and despise them and think you have no one but yourself to blame.”

But surely, given that the custody of Ireland is at stake, wasn’t Baldwin concerned that the book could have repercussions in his own case?

“I don’t really care,” he said. “I’m sure individual people like Hersh [Kim Basinger’s lawyer] will seize on anything he can, but most people in the Beverly Hills family law system see Hersh for what he is. I’m not the first person to call him . . .”

It is suggested that Baldwin might be the first to call him a cross between Gabe Kaplan and Chuck Norris.

He laughed out loud. “I do like that visual,” he said. “But you know, there is a demand for what he does. If you are in a divorce and conflict resolution is not in your interest and you just want to make the life of your ex as miserable as possible, then Hersh is the man to have on your speed dial. He exists to make divorce a form of torture.”

There was a long pause, where it appeared that Baldwin had more to say on the subject, but he remained quiet, staring at the steady stream of traffic. He was asked if the circumstances of the divorce and the custody of his daughter was now as resolved as it would ever be.

“Nooooooo!” he said very suddenly. “No! Never! But I am forbidden by the court to discuss the current situation.”

Even though he discussed the particulars of the case in minutiae in the book?

“I don’t talk about any court orders,” he asserted. “I can describe testimony given in Judge Roy Paul’s courtroom, I’m allowed to describe events, but I can’t quote from the transcript and I can’t quote what the rulings were.”

The cumulative effect of the book’s catalogue of court appearances, mandated counseling sessions and ceaseless frustrations is so all consuming that it is surprising that Baldwin has managed to continue a career at all.

“I haven’t been able to turn my full attention to anything but this case,” he said plainly. “I’ve been able to pursue what I normally pursue, but I haven’t been able to do it well. I haven’t had my best effort in my work for years. I have been completely overwhelmed and derailed by this. And it’s still the case today. Its like a tumor, I’ve just never been able to get away from it. I am in court all the time. I am in court constantly for the enforcement of existing orders.”

But surely there is an end in sight. His daughter will turn thirteen later this year, so in five years time it will all be a moot point.

Baldwin continued to smile, but he drew in his breath to make an explanation that he articulates with great forcefulness in his book. “There is your time with a child for your enjoyment for the love and the joy and warmth and the happiness of having a family,” he said with studied patience. “And then there is the relationship you have to parent a child to teach them and mold them — that’s part of your job and that’s true for everyone and those two components are the things that you lose, that’s the battle ground you fight over.”

There was a pause, and then he continued.

“And then they get older, during college and after, and what are the ramifications? What are the long-term effects? Statistically children raised without fathers, particularly women, become more inclined to drug abuse, alcoholism, sexually transmitted diseases, promiscuous sexual relationships, teenage pregnancy, and divorce themselves. When they grow up its not over.”

Will his daughter read the book?

“Maybe an edited version,” he laughed. “Maybe only the bad parts. You know, anything that will turn her against me. I don’t know. I don’t know what goes on in that mansion. I have no idea. I really have no idea how my daughter is raised. I have no relationship with my ex-wife, which doesn’t really matter to me. But there is an authority, and that authority’s job is to protect the child. And none of this is now done in the best interest of the child.

“What you have to do now to get a judge to force a mother to go into therapy to get her to stop alienating a child against her other parent, they just don’t want to do that. Men’s behavior is examined to a fare thee well in the California system and women just skate.”

An assistant hurried up to him. “Two minutes,” she said.

“What else?” Baldwin said.

He is asked about three moments in the book where he breaks down and cries, the third time being after the infamous phone message he left for his daughter last year.

An assistant walked by with his suit jacket. “Two minutes,” she said.

“No, no, I’ll put in on in there,” he said.

“What?” He said, turning back to the reporter.

The question was repeated.

“Like I have said many times,” he said, “If what you did on your worst day was recorded by someone privately . . . “ He trailed off for a moment. “The interesting thing about Hersh, and my ex-wife and Levin [Harvey Levin, of TMZ, who aired the tape] is that the electronic or digital property of the minor child is the property of her parents or guardians. They had to have my permission to release that recording. So that was another contempt charge against my ex-wife. They have numerous, numerous contempt charges against them at this point which we could prosecute and we don’t.

“Listen,” he said, standing up, and putting his hands on the arm rests of his canvas chair, pushing his weight into the chair. “We have a set of orders, they violate those orders constantly. We choose not to prosecute to make things better and it gains us no ground. The other side is angrier than I will ever be, that’s for sure. And when what you do on your worst day is broadcast by these people . . . Listen: I think it embarrassed my ex-wife, it made her look like a fool to do something like that, it hurt me obviously, but most of all it hurt my daughter. This is something that someone should have gone to a judge and said, ‘I would prefer that he not leave messages like that.’ It could have been done. The world now is so fuelled by mockery and you just get really sad when it’s your turn to be taken for a spin. It’s really hard.”

But it is clear he has bounced back, no?

“To an extent. But I am changed. I’m very changed from the experience.”

He let those words hang in there and was about to add to the thought when a crewmember walked by with a tray of Starbucks coffees. Baldwin took an iced mochachino and an extra shot of espresso. He handed the crewmember a $50 bill, which was refused.

He turned back to the reporter and said: “What else?”

“Alec, they’re ready for you,” said another assistant.

“It does change you!” he said emphatically just as a stranger walked up and asked for his autograph. He signed it then looked at the reporter again.

Had Mr. Baldwin ever heard the expression, ‘is it better to be happy or to be right?’

“Yes,” he said, with a look of mild deflation. “I’ve learned it.”

“They’re ready for you Alec,” said another assistant, the one who had been playing football with him fifteen minutes previously.

“I’ve heard that over and over,” he said. “The first phrase I make in the book is, “I never wanted to write this book.” If you go back and think about it, to have any psychic engagement with my ex-wife or her lawyers is just anathema to me. But I do feel like who is going to help other people? To see that nutty, vicious, ex-spouse work you over that way in court – it is agonizing for everybody, there is a lot, a lot, of collateral damage.

Baldwin shrugged and took his arms off the canvas chair, straightening himself. “But what I’ve learned is I have to promote the book. If you asked me the truth I wouldn’t even be sitting here talking to you,” he said warmly enough. “I wouldn’t do any press for the book. I have no interest in doing this. When my obligatory press turn for the book is over on September 23d, you’ll never hear me talk about this again. Ever.

He fixed me with his steady gaze, and looked around at the bustling crew on the sidewalk outside the Marriott Hotel in the middle of Queens.

“We good?”

A much shorter version of this interview of Alec Baldwin by William Georgiades ran in the Los Angeles Times. The Unspiked Files represent Gawker's repository of newspaper and magazine articles which through no fault of their own didn't make it fully into print. Submissions to unspiked@gawker.com.

• Alec Baldwin hates TMZ's Harvey Levin, who made famous Baldwin's abusive voice mail to his 11-year-old daughter and who, Baldwin writes, "seemed to be that breed of tabloid creature that realized an almost sexual level of pleasure from ruining other people's lives." Previously, the voice mail had been the fault of the daughter, then the media, then the entire family court system. Oh, also, his ex-wife, who "reaches an almost sexual level of satisfaction when she's in a room full of high-priced lawyers." Sounds familiar!
• Anne Hathaway's handlers don't want you to know that she smokes. [R&M]
• Paris Hilton is probably already jealous of Nicole Richie's screaming matches with Joel Madden. [Star]
• Britney Spears' record label will make her insane again or grow fabulously wealthy trying. [Scoop]
• Miley Cyrus, 16, insists the 20-year-old underwear model who flew into town for a visit is "just a friend." [Hollyscoop]
• An entrepreneurial LA airport cop created a fake Jamie-Lynn Spears to distract the paparazzi and now he's in trouble for it because he gets paid to make the lives of ordinary people miserable. [E!]

Ha ha, just kidding. We didn't make up this part, though: "Kaitlin Silva, who acted as the duck in the story, said she enjoyed Mr. Baldwin’s visit."

• Anne Hathaway broke up with Rafaello Follieri by speakerphone, saying, "you were the love of my life." Then he was arrested while she went to promote her movie in Mexico. Seeya, let's stay friends 'k?! [Us, Vanity Fair]
• Wait, Ivanka Trump is friends with Google co-founder Sergey Brin? [P6]
• OK! got to work buttering up Sarah Palin with the "gossip" that the Republican VP candidate's daughter Bristol is engaged. Eat your heart out, Us Weekly. [OK!]
• Do not cut off Alec Baldwin with your limo, inconsiderate rich person! [P6]
• Mary-Kate Olsen demanded to sit between two Gossip Girl stars at a fashion show. [R&M]
• Jennifer Aniston's awkward drink with Brad Pitt? She was originally planning an even-more-awkward dinner! Now she's consoling herself with Scottish actor Gerald Butler.
• Jay-Z invites reporters to event, forbids note-taking or tape recording. This way he can credibly claim to have been misquoted! [P6]
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson plan to get married in the next six months but, contrary to other reports, are not planning to have a baby.
• Kirsten Dunst isn't dating Justin Long and never was. Officially. [Us]

"If you choose to attack me again may I suggest something witty about me creating the show Yes Dear or just simply a joke about the fact that I’m bald. Both true.

"As far as you being psychotic, anyone who thinks NBC wouldn’t do everything they could to promote a great show like 30 Rock, which they own, over a show like My Name is Earl, which they don’t, is a tad nutty.

"Good luck with the Emmys and don’t forget to tune in for the one hour season premiere of My Name is Earl September 25th."

I asked Garcia how it was so many blogs had decided he was a Scientologist. "It started with a story in [the London] Mirror," he said, which had pronounced him a Scientologist because several Earl cast members are Scientologists. "It amused me and, since then, it's just become common knowledge. But I am in fact born and raised Catholic."

• Lindsay Lohan is "not going the [New York] magazine road again," the star's rep reportedly told Playboy, by way of rejecting a $700,000 offer to be photographed topless. Because what's the fun in getting paid for it? [Post]
• Anna Wintour tried to indulge her crush on Roger Federer by heading to one of his tennis matches at 3 p.m. on Thursday — but ended up having to run back to the office within an hour. The end of summer can be so depressing. [Observer]
• Alec Baldwin told In Touch he contemplated suicide after the release of the voice mail in which he called his then-11-year-old daughter a "thoughtless little pig." [Showbiz Spy]
• Republicans don't like tell-all books about the seedy underbelly of political fundraising being hawked in the city where they're trying to do a lot of political fundraising. [R&M]

They always remember names and stuff? Well that's easy enough to fake. They just have their assistants look up whatever journalist they're meeting with that day, print out a picture, and make a little flashcard. Simple as that! Of course these people are friendly to the press. They're at work. Though I'm sure myriad waiters and Starbucks baristas and parking valets and hotel concierges would agree with the choices, right? Right?

"Parental alienation is about people who narcissistically project their whole reality onto a child: 'I don't need you, so the child doesn't need you.' The goal of the alienating parent is to kill contiguous time. People need reliability. They need regularity. And I've been the victim of a campaign to kill all that. You wind up being more an uncle than a father."

He also says that when he and Basinger first split up, she thought he was trying to murder her. They were looking at a house for him to rent near a cliff, Baldwin recalls, when Basinger wigged out. "[I said,] 'You've got to come over here and look at this!' She said, 'No, no, come back, we've got to go. We're late.' And then I thought, 'She thinks I'm going to throw her off this cliff!' " [P6]

• Dark Knight star Christian Bale is accused of assaulting his own mother and sister. Police apparently waited to question Bale about the incident because "it would have been wrong to have wrecked the premiere." Yes, one wouldn't want to interrupt the celebration of a fictional vigilante crime fighter with an awkward attempt to, you know, fight crime. [Sun]
• Alec Baldwin's book A Promise To Ourselves is about how the screwed up divorce and family court system made him very angry, resulting in the famously abusive voice mail he left his daughter. You know what else makes Baldwin very angry? Being rescheduled four times for an interview with Diane Sawyer about the book, just because her husband went into heart surgery or whatever. [R&M]
• Sarah Jessica Parker has an art competition show, and it's headed for Bravo. The creators of Project Runway are involved. [P6]
• Harvey Weinstein's Weinstein Co. is expanding with a full 11,000-square-foot floor in a TriBeCa building. Their credit is still good! Or at least it is with their old landlord. [Post]
• Britney Spears looks good in a bikini again, thanks to the magic of cool, refreshing cigarettes. [Egotastic]
• Madonna is taking time off from her tour under doctor's orders. Supposedly, the pop star fired two dancers and her tour manager was on the verge of walking out. "One of her closest pals says she has never seen Madonna so low." [Sun]
• Alex Rodriguez is negotiating with his wife Cynthia in New York this week to "quickly settle their divorce" and "avoid a public 'slugfest.'" Oh, good. Because one can only imagine the salacious gossip that might emerge from such a situation. [Post]
• Al Reynolds was spotted at Miami Fashion Week with a woman "who was the spitting image" of Star Jones, complete with four-inch stilettos. [Post]
• Larry Mendte, the Philadelphia TV news co-anchor of cop-puncher Alycia Lane, was charged by the feds with reading Lane's email, including during breaks from the 11 o'clock news, and presumably for also forwarding her email to various tabloids, because if low-grade email snooping alone is a federal crime this guy is one unlucky bastard. [P6]
• Miley Cyrus is interested in taking the movie role of "a lovable, lost suburban girl who descends into a life of reckless partying and promiscuity." How does Vanity Fair continue to manipulate her this way?? [Scoop]
• Fashion line Guess wants its lead model to look like Amy Winehouse. On purpose. [P6]
• Paris Hilton is maybe tired of boyfriend Benji Madden, even though she recently wanted to marry him and have his babies, according to rumor and so forth. [E!]

• Alec Baldwin lashes out at the family court system in his book, not his ex-wife Kim Basinger. He takes care of her at live party appearances: "My ex-wife reaches an almost sexual level of satisfaction when she's in a room full of high-priced lawyers." [Showbiz Spy]
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had their big house-de-thetaning party in Beverly Hills, and a helicopter or tree-climber showed up to take pictures. In the first shot, you can see Cruise trying to crash the photographer with his Scientology mind powers. Guests included Victoria Beckham, whose terrified husband stayed home so he couldn't be kidnapped again; Oprah Winfrey, who brought her very close personal friend Gail King; Jennifer Lopez, who likely left the babies at home with their security detail; Tobey Maguire; and fellow crazy Scientologists Kimora Lee and Kirstie Alley.
• Leven Rambin: "I have come to an understanding that soap fans are unlike any other; dedicated, passionate, and loving." Actually, all fans are dedicated, passionate and loving. That's the definition of "fan." [Oh No They Didn't]
• John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston continue to hang out. [Faded Youth]
• Diddy and Cameron Diaz held hands. She said he "must" try her "bread pudding," and spoon fed it to him. Then they snuck off into Prince's basement together. They're of course "just friends." [Rush & Molloy]
• Wesley Snipes is confident he isn't going to jail for the tax evasion thing. He is out on bail and plans an appeal. [P6]
• Sulu from Star Trek getting married to his gay partner, has a sense of humor: "He got down on one knee. I said, ‘What are you doing down there?'" [R&M]
• About one-third of Kurt Cobain's ashes were stolen from wife Courtney Love, who kept them in "a pink teddy-bear-shaped bag" that she used to take "everywhere." She said she was suicidal. [News of the World]
• Rapper M.I.A., who was going to have to leave the country, is marrying a media mogul's son right before her work papers expire. So if they catch her at the border, she really will have visas in her name. [Oh No They Didn't]
• Charlie Sheen has remarried, which means he has a new person to apologize to. [Hollyscoop]
• Hugh Grant, the film star once busted for prostitution, was very interested in taking home a "leggy brunette" from a club until he realized photographers were present. [Showbiz Spy]
• Angelina Jolie keeps guns at home, knows how to use them. [Showbiz Spy]
• Awkward: Harrison Ford had to explicitly deny widespread rumors that he will finally marry Calista Flockhart. [Showbiz Spy]

First I was aghast at the call and thought Baldwin was an awful person, despite having loved a lot of his work hosting SNL (Bill Brasky sketch! Canteen Boy's scout master!). Then after the subject came up with friends a few times I decided I was probably being too judgmental, since divorces can be emotionally torturous and since Baldwin seemed remorseful. Then I saw 30 Rock and was officially a fan.

But this clip kind of takes some of the luster off the guy again for me. Why can't he just say "it's totally wrong" to berate your 11-year-old daughter that way and then leave it at that? He talks about how terrible the divorce and custody fight was, how terrible it was that the tape leaked, how all these other smart people he knows lose their tempers with their kids, and how the media made things so much worse. And then he said a key lesson in the whole thing is to be nicer to his daughter on voicemail.

Baldwin's behavior, in this one case, was appalling. By pointing fingers and sounding less than entirely repentant he makes it harder to laugh along with his often-incredible moments as an actor.

bettycrocker's new line beats the original, Alec Eyes Pins, Prepares To Toss Unsuspecting Woman

Earlier: Alec Baldwin Says The Upper West Side Is The Dirtiest Neighborhood In Town

There are two stages of life in which the always-fragile celebrity ego is most vulnerable to a complete loss of its proverbial shit. The more photogenic of these stages occurs in the female during her late teens and early 20s. The photos and drunken ramblings of young, lady celebrities in various amusing stages of meltdown/undress are not exactly hard to come by these days. The second stage is, arguably, not as well documented. Probably because it occurs in the aging male celebrity and, though our nation clearly has a few issues, we haven't yet reached the level of complete societal breakdown indicated by a yearning for photos of old-man privates. But hey, it's only June. Unfortunately, the above sighting seems to indicate that Alec Baldwin is teetering on the edge of a stage-two crisis.

Granted, his nonsensical appearance on "The View" back in April didn't rise to Cruiseian couch-jumping levels. But it was kind of weird. And no, he hasn't gotten bombed and called anyone sugar tits yet, but honestly, can't you picture that happening fairly soon? Let's be clear. Alec Baldwin is hilarious. And that hilarity has kept him in the public's good graces through countless instances of douchebaggery. And though calling his teenage daughter a pig offended the inner, chubby bulimic teen in every woman I know, no one wants to see a video of him trying to eat a cheeseburger off the floor shirtless.

This is a dreadfully important time in Alec's rebuilding before the public. And much of it must happen in private. Nearly anything he does wrong now could turn all of America against him. Is this something he is too churlish and petty to understand? Does he not enjoy his celebrity status at all? Does he want to be forced to be removed permanently to Ronkonkoma to live in a 2-bedroom and do nothing all day?

Maybe the whole thing was Basinger's fault, but regardless, Alec needs to watch himself. He has a family history. And let's face it, as funny as the guy is on 30 Rock, he's only one Hawaiian shirt and a bad hair day away from being a total Nolte.

Previously: Dead Larry King Deserves His 'Privileges'

Older siblings really are know-it-alls, study finds [Boston Globe]

With their intensely personal moments made public, the celebrities represent oversize versions of the threats to privacy we all face at a time when the use of e-mail, camera-phones and other technologies has grown faster than common sense about them. If such betrayals can happen to stars, they can happen to us (with humiliation on a smaller scale). And the leaks themselves are the product of a celebrity culture as out of control as the stars in these uncontrolled moments.

But [Hasselhoff's] book becomes accidentally illuminating about the lure and pitfalls of fame when he describes meeting Princess Diana.... The [recordings are] not even like the embarrassing leak of Prince Charles's phone call to his then-girlfriend Camilla saying that he wished to be her tampon; he's the man who will be king... The media spectacle surrounding the Hasselhoff video and Alec Baldwin's leaked phone rant to his 11-year-old daughter have obscured some profound social issues.

Life imitates TV
Alec Baldwin and Jeff Zucker talk TV [Fortune]

[Director Marc] Klein and some of the cast took the stage after the screening for a Q&A, and a question got thrown to actor James Naughton, who plays Gellar's father. "I want to say, I love Sarah," Naughton told the crowd after he answered, "And I also love Alec." The audience once again burst into applause, causing him to add of the affection, "I hope he comes back and sees all this."

The only specific vocalization of Baldwin's recent scandal occurred when another audience member stood and sarcastically started to ask Klein, "Did Alec tell you he was going to yell at his daughter..." But before he could finish the question, the protective crowd had booed him silent, scared him back into his seat, and Klein moved on.

All About Baldwin at Suburban Girl [HuffPo]

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Okay, I've seen your new post about this. You might have done the classy thing, or at least the adult thing (speaking of adults), and managed to print my statement without having to make snide remarks about me—one that confuses decency with paternalism, another that repeats an old insult levelled by one or two out of the many hundreds of students I've taught, many of whom will tell you that I'm one of the favorite professors they've ever had—but I suppose that if you started doing the classy thing, or even the adult thing, you'd have to take down the entire site. Or even the legal thing, come to think of it: I also notice that you still haven't said anything about how the original post violates the copyright of the two student-authors in question.

Now how about posting this?

"Zero accountability and responsibility taken on your part, Alec. Your stint on The View made you look worse then if you had said nothing. I feel so sorry for your daughter. Two parents who put themselves first. You are not a victim, Alec. Nice try." "When you stated your situation it reminded me of my dad's story. His divorce with my mom was simular to yours . I am 28 now and live down the street from daddy and I survived your daughter will too." Also! "Enough said, I just wanted to say goodbye. It is silly of me to dream like this... What was I thinking? I'm not and never have been married, no children, no boyfriend, not many friends... But I have a lot of potential, so they say..." Hmm, that last one maybe indicates some transference issues. —Emily

Forum [AlecBaldwin.com]

While we feel that Prof. Deresiewicz should have been more concerned with the quality of his students' writing, he was upset that we'd inadvertently caused grief for all girls on the Yale campus named Audrey, or at least one. Turns out his student had changed the girl's name and it wasn't "Audrey" at all! Since he apparently thinks in loco parentis somehow extends to adult students, he wrote to us:

I'm the teacher of the class for which the pieces you posted were written. Now I understand that a woman named Audrey in the class is being hounded by media people and others asking for her story. In fact, the writer of the piece changed the name of the woman in question; it isn't Audrey at all. In the interests of sparing this innocent young woman further trouble, could you please post a note to that effect on your site?

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People in the tabloid media are themselves people who are abused and are people who are living with shameful secrets. They make it their career to humiliate you and expose your secrets. You find out that everybody who works in tabloid media are people who are filled with self-hatred and shame, and the way they manage those feelings, they destroy the lives of other people and reveal your secrets.

Baldwin: 'I Apologize to My Daughter' [ABC News]