Baldwin 'suicidal' over answerphone rant

Alec Baldwin has revealed that he had suicidal thoughts after an answerphone message of him criticising his 11-year-old daughter leaked online.

The 30 Rock actor claimed in his autobiography A Promise To Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce and Family Law that he wanted to throw himself from the window of his New York apartment when the message, in which he calls daughter Ireland a "thoughtless little pig", was posted on the internet.

"Driving up the Taconic Parkway, heading to an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, I began to think about what little town I would repair to in order to commit suicide," he wrote.

"The thought of jumping out the window of my apartment was with me every night for weeks."

Baldwin issued a public apology to Ireland when the answerphone message leaked last year.