By SUSANNAH CAHALAN
May 31, 2008
Alec Baldwin - notorious for calling his daughter a "thoughtless little pig" on a voicemail - is now penning a book ironically aimed at educating parents and children going through divorce.
In the tome, "A Promise to Ourselves," he calls himself the "helpless" victim of a bitter divorce battle with actress Kim Basinger, the mother of his daughter, Ireland.
He says the book won't trash his ex-wife but admits that "it might have been in everyone's best interest if we never married."
Baldwin hopes the book, to be published by St. Martin's Press in September, will serve as a how-to divorce guide with instructions on pre-nups, custody rights and co-parenting strategies.
In his expletive-laced phone message released in April 2007, Baldwin was heard ranting at Ireland, saying her "mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do! You've made me feel like s- -t!"
In print, Baldwin unleashes his attack on the legal system, which he claims destroys reputations. Divorce is like "being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel road," he pens in the book's introduction.
The "30 Rock" star split with Basinger in 2000 but has spent years battling over custody rights to Ireland, 12.
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