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Actor Alec Baldwin tried to threaten daughter with taking sleeping pills
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By JAMIE SCHRAM and CLEMENTE LISI
Last Updated: 7:28 PM, February 11, 2010
Posted: 8:10 AM, February 11, 2010
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Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin was taken to a Manhattan hospital early today when his teenage daughter frantically called 911, claiming he had threatened to take pills after they got into a heated fight, sources said.
While the 12:10 a.m. call came in as a possible alcohol or drug overdose, sources told The Post that Baldwin never swallowed sleeping pills and had only threatened to do so.
The 30 Rock actor, who lives on Central Park West, was released from Lenox Hill Hospital shortly after 1 a.m., according to sources.
This was a misunderstanding on one persons part. Alec was quickly released from the hospital; hes completely fine and will be at work today, said Baldwin's spokesman Matthew Hiltzik.
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It remains unclear what the arguement was about, although this is not the first time Baldwin and his daughter, 14-year-old Ireland, have sparred.
In 2007, Baldwin blamed a bitter custody battle with ex-wife, actress Kim Basinger, in part for the anger he was feeling when he berated their daughter in a phone message later leaked to reporters.
In the voicemail, Baldwin called Ireland, who was 11 at the time, a rude, thoughtless little pig.
Baldwin left the message after Ireland had failed to pick up the phone.
He later apologized to his daughter, saying the message had "horrified him.
In his book, A Promise to Ourselves, Baldwin blasted the California family court system and offered dad advice based on his own experience with divorce litigation.
Baldwin, 51, who is currently co-starring with Meryl Streep and Steve Martin in the movie "It's Complicated," is slated to co-host the Academy Awards with Martin next month.
Baldwin, who split with Basinger in 2000, won his second straight Emmy Award as lead actor in a comedy for 30 Rock last year.
Last month, he and co-star Tina Fey won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best acting in a comedy series. He was also awarded a Golden Globe Award for best actor in a TV series, comedy or musical for his role in the popular NBC sit-com.
Baldwin, a no-show at last month's Golden Globes in Los Angeles, was instead in Canada helping his favorite environmental charity, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Waterkeeper Alliance, to help raise funds.
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