An Oscar Winner Who Made Her Boyfriend Get Rid Of His Cats, And 16 More Celebrity Relationship Ultimatums (And How They Turned Out)

One actor said, “It was my intention not to tell anybody because I knew in my gut it wasn’t right.”

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His ex-wife Kim Basinger's spokesperson told CBS News, "The voice mail speaks for itself."

Alec's lawyer told the outlet that she'd filed a court order "to determine how the tape got leaked and to determine whether actions should be taken [against] Kim Basinger, or her attorneys, or Harvey Levin (who runs TMZ.com) and anybody else associated with the leaking of the tape and the violation of the court orders to keep the proceedings closed."

Alec made a public apology on his website, writing, "Although I have been told by numerous people not to worry too much, as all parents lose their patience with their kids, I am most saddened that this was released to the media because of what it does to a child. I'm sorry, as everyone who knows me is aware, for losing my temper with my child. I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand. (Although I hope you never do.) I am sorry for what happened. But I am equally sorry that a court order was violated, which had deliberately been put under seal in this case."

"In such public cases, your opponents attempt to take a picture of you on your worst day and insist that this is who you are as a person," Baldwin wrote. "Outside the doors of divorce court, I have friends, I have respect from people I work with and I have a normal relationship with my daughter. All of that is threatened whenever one enters a courtroom."

Hilaria and Alec have seven kids together.

"And I go, 'But why? 'Cause you didn't marry me, and they're in my body.' And he's like, 'Alright, hang on a minute.' And I said, 'I just feel like, if what's holding you back — "it's a piece of paper" — if it means nothing, and it's just that, then let's do it.' ... I said, 'It's been five years,'" she said.

"Once that clicked with me and I didn't have to intellectualize my way into it, I started to feel the excitement. I was having my own definition of the freedom I wanted thrown right back at me, in possibly a much greater way," he said.