Ireland Baldwin and Mom Kim Basinger Share Their ‘Challenges’ With Alec Baldwin on ‘Red Table Talk’

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Family matters. Ireland Baldwin and mom Kim Basinger opened up about the “challenges” they’ve had with Alec Baldwin over the years.“You know we’re all fine, we all get along, whatever.

But he’s a challenge. We’ve had our challenges,” the L.A. Confidential star, 68, said during a conversation with Jada Pinkett Smith on the Wednesday, April 27, episode of Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk while discussing her 26-year-old daughter’s battle with her mental health. “I don’t think Alec was emotionally or mentally available for that kind of talk.

Alec you know operates in a very different way in his life.”While Ireland explained that she believes her father also deals with anxiety, in her mind, Alec, 64, is “someone who grew up in a family that would suppress that as well or tell him he’s weak for feeling that way.”She continued: “There’s things I would go to my father for, but if I ever even try to have this conversation in any way with him, I don’t think he would be able to really absorb any of it.”The 30 Rock alum and Basinger, who married in 1992 and welcomed Ireland three years later, had a contentious custody battle when they split in 2002. “Divorce is hard on a kid,” the Oscar winner told The Edit in April 2016. “Ours was very public and nasty.

So I brought up Ireland in a very unconventional way. I just wanted her to be free. If she wanted to have her friends over and write over the walls with pen, that was fine.