The tension between actor Alec Baldwin and his ex-wife Basinger has erupted again when an angry phone message from Baldwin to his daughter was made public.
On the recording, Baldwin can be heard calling his 11-year-old, daughter Ireland a, "thoughtless little pig."
"You don't have the brains or the decency of a human being," he says, apparently upset that she did not answer her phone for a planned call.
"I don't give a damn that you're 12 years old, or 11 years old, or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned. You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone."
He goes on to say that he plans to fly from New York to Los Angeles "for the day just to straighten you out on this issue."
The recording was published on Thursday by US celebrity news site TMZ.com.
A spokesman for Baldwin says Basinger and her lawyer leaked the recording "in violation of a court order." The spokesman adding that Baldwin "should have used different language in parenting his child."
Basinger's spokeswoman says simply: "The voice mail speaks for itself."
Baldwin and Basinger, 53, were married in 1993. They have been involved in prolonged legal disputes over custody and other issues since she filed for divorce in 2001, which was granted in 2002. The couple's differences have been aired several times in public.
