Moments in bad Hollywood parenting
Alec Baldwin
The “30 Rock” star shocked the public when he left a profane, vitriolic voice mail for his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, calling her a “rude, thoughtless little pig” for missing a scheduled phone call with him. “I don’t care that you’re 12 or 11 or whatever,” he railed, “I’m a good father, and you’re a pig.” He later apologized on “The View.” (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)
Woody Allen
During her custody battle with the Manhattan auteur, actress and former girlfriend Mia Farrow alleged that Allen sexually molested their 7-year-old adopted daughter Malone, a charge that the presiding judge later concluded was inconclusive. This said, the judge declared Allen’s relationship with Farrow’s then-22-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn “inappropriate.” (The Farrow-Allen relationship had fallen apart when Farrow discovered naked photos Allen had taken of the young woman.)
Farrow ultimately won the custody battle, and the judge in the case deemed Allen “self-absorbed, untrustworthy and insensitive” and wrote that the filmmaker “demonstrated no parenting skills that would qualify him as an adequate custodian.”
Still, the three-time Academy Award winner remained unrepentant about the incident with Soon-Yi, whom he later married, telling Vanity Fair in 2002, that Farrow finding the incriminating photographs was “just one of the fortuitous events, one of the great pieces of luck in my life. . . . It was a turning point for the better.” (Franco Origlia / Getty Images)
Courtney Love
The Hole frontwoman and actress has lost custody of her daughter with Kurt Cobain, not once but twice. The first time came just weeks after Frances Bean’s birth in 1992, sparked by allegations run in Vanity Fair, that Love had admitted using heroin during her pregnancy. Love has said that she didn’t know she was pregnant at the time. After an investigation by child protective authorities, the baby was returned to Love.
In 2003, Love was rushed to the hospital after she overdosed on painkillers, and eight days later, Bean -- who was in the house when her mom OD’d, was removed again by child services and placed with Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor. Love got Frances Bean back in 2005 after completing state-mandated rehab. (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images)