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Ireland Baldwin and her famously combative father, Alec, came at the issue of sexual abuse from two starkly different positions on social media Sunday.

Ireland Baldwin, 26, used her sizable TikTok platform to open up about being raped as a teenager and her later decision to have an abortion, as a way to express her “love and support for other women” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In contrast to Ireland Baldwin’s timely and compassionate TikTok video, Alec Baldwin, 64  took to Instagram a few hours later to declare “I love you Woody” and to defiantly announce that he’s interviewing the controversial director, Woody Allen. The interview with Allen, accused of sexual assaulting his 7-year-old daughter, is scheduled for Instagram Live on Tuesday.

Soon-Yi Previn and her husband, actor/filmmaker Woody Allen, Robert Kennedy, Jr.  daughter Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, and actor Billy Baldwin attend Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas’ wedding ceremony at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on June 30, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) 

While Ireland Baldwin’s traumatic experience with sexual assault has nothing to do with Allen, or with her father’s support of the 86-year-old director, it’s hard to ignore the juxtaposition of these father-daughter announcements Sunday.

It’s also hard to ignore Alec Baldwin’s ongoing desire to defend a famous male friend whose career was torpedoed because of allegations of sexual assault. Baldwin’s defense of Allen also is noteworthy as his own career has been jeopardized over his role in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film, “Rust.” Baldwin remains under criminal investigation and he faces multiple wrongful-death lawsuits as a producer for “Rust” and as the handler of the gun that killed Hutchins.

If nothing else, the sentiments expressed by Ireland Baldwin feel much more in step with the mood of the country over the weekend. The Supreme Court’s split decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in a decision announced Friday, immediately led to near or total bans on abortion in half the U.S. states. Millions of women suddenly woke up to the reality that they had lost a legal right that had been guaranteed for nearly half a century.

Allen has become persona non grata in the film industry because of renewed focus in recent years on 1992 sexual abuse allegations made against him by his adopted stepdaughter, Dylan Farrow. People commenting on Baldwin’s post said, “That’s a big no,” and “I’ve supported u 100% thru everything. But Woody Allen? Bye.”

Ireland Baldwn’s TikTok video, captioned “I’m here for you,” was far more positively received. She told her 177,000 followers that she didn’t think women should feel it’s their responsibility to share their stories about having abortions in the wake of Roe being overturned, but the model and influencer said, “I am only now sharing my story because I want other women to feel supported and loved whether they want to share their own [experience] or not.”

Ireland Baldwin received thousands of likes and praise for first sharing that she was raped while “completely unconscious” as a teenager.  While Baldwin did not become pregnant from the assault, she said the incident “changed the course of the rest of my life.” She didn’t tell anyone it happened for years, except for a nurse that treated her.

“I didn’t even tell my own boyfriend at the time, not my parents, no one,” said Baldwin, whose mother is Kim Basinger.

Ireland Baldwin said the assault brought her so much pain and guilt that she “lost control of her life.” She said, “I drank a lot more, I partied a lot more, I self-medicated. I was in other abusive and toxic relationships and friendships.”

Seeing so many “brave” women discuss their own stories of unwanted pregnancies made Baldwin consider what would have happened if she had become pregnant as a result of the rape.

“It would have simply been traumatizing and impossible,” Baldwin said. She acknowledged that she has “medical resources, money and support that a lot of women do not have access to.”

As for the abortion, Ireland Baldwin said it happened when she was in a relationship. “At that point in time, I would say we were very unhappy together, and he made it clear that he never wanted kids or marriage,” Ireland Baldwin said. “He barely wanted to be in a serious relationship.

Baldwin said she could have perhaps put the baby up for adoption. She knew she definitely wasn’t ready to rear a child without her own financial security and “without a loving and supportive partner.

“That wasn’t going to work for me,” Ireland Baldwin added. “I chose me, and I would choose me again. It’s your life, it’s your choice.”

Another reason Ireland Baldwin said she chose to get an abortion is because she knows “exactly what it felt like to be born between two people that hated each other.” She appears to be referring to being a child caught in the middle of her parent’s high-profile divorce and custody battle in the 2000s.

During that extremely bitter battle, Alec Baldwin notoriously called Ireland a “thoughtless little pig” when she was 11 years old, in a seething 2007 voicemail he left for her when she missed a scheduled phone call. The voicemail was leaked to TMZ.

The “30 Rock” star apologized for the voice mail, and he and Ireland Baldwin have said they got through some rocky times and have had a good relationship. However, Ireland Baldwin recently admitted in a Red Table Talk interview that her father has never been able to engage in difficult emotional conversations.

On Sunday, Alec Baldwin showed some of that resistance to difficult emotional conversations by immediately dismissing anyone who wanted to challenge him for his support of Allen.

In a caption accompanying his video announcing his interview, Alec Baldwin said, “I have ZERO INTEREST in anyone’s judgments and sanctimonious posts here.”

In the video, Baldwin was defiant in other ways. He smiled playfully as he held up the cover of “Zero Gravity,” Allen’s collection of humorous writing to announce that he would be his Instagram Live guest. Baldwin also smiled, covered his mouth winsomely, then whispered Allen’s name, before also whispering, “I love you Woody.”

Alec Baldwin has been fiercely supportive of Allen in his time of turmoil.  When Dylan Farrow first came forward about the alleged abuse in 1992, Allen, who denies any wrongdoing, was able to easily brush off the allegations and to continue making movies, including two starring Baldwin, “Blue Jasmine” and “To Rome With Love.”

The #MeToo movement gave Farrow’s allegations new resonance. She and her brother, New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow, who helped break the first #MeToo stories, stepped up their calls for Allen to be held accountable. They also renewed their criticism of Allen starting an affair with their older sister, Soon-Yi Previn, while she was still a teenager and while he was in a relationship with their mother, Mia Farrow.

Amazon canceled a four-movie deal with Allen and some movie stars publicly vowed to never work with him again, but Baldwin stayed loyal. He has publicly defended Allen over the years on social media, calling the  criticism “unfair” and essentially saying that Allen is innocent until proven guilty.

In 2020, Baldwin severed his long relationship relationship with WNYC to produce his podcast, “Here’s the Thing,” because the producers expected him to ask Allen about the abuse allegations when interviewing him for the show.

Also that year, Baldwin blasted HBO for its explosive four-part documentary, “Allen v. Farrow,” which featured interviews with Dylan, Mia and Ronan Farrow on the sexual abuse allegations. Baldwin tweeted that the film’s revelations were “gossip not justice” and said, “If Dylan stands by her charges, then stop the gossiping.”




Ireland Baldwin and her famously combative father, Alec, came at the issue of sexual abuse from two starkly different positions on social media Sunday.

Ireland Baldwin, 26, used her sizable TikTok platform to open up about being raped as a teenager and her later decision to have an abortion, as a way to express her “love and support for other women” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In contrast to Ireland Baldwin’s timely and compassionate TikTok video, Alec Baldwin, 64  took to Instagram a few hours later to declare “I love you Woody” and to defiantly announce that he’s interviewing the controversial director, Woody Allen. The interview with Allen, accused of sexual assaulting his 7-year-old daughter, is scheduled for Instagram Live on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 30: (L-R Center Row) Soon-Yi Previn and her husband, Actor/filmmaker Woody Allen, (Back Row) Robert Kennedy, Jr. and daughter Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, and (Center Row R) actor Billy Baldwin attend Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas' wedding ceremony at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral on June 30, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Soon-Yi Previn and her husband, actor/filmmaker Woody Allen, Robert Kennedy, Jr.  daughter Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, and actor Billy Baldwin attend Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas’ wedding ceremony at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on June 30, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) 

While Ireland Baldwin’s traumatic experience with sexual assault has nothing to do with Allen, or with her father’s support of the 86-year-old director, it’s hard to ignore the juxtaposition of these father-daughter announcements Sunday.

It’s also hard to ignore Alec Baldwin’s ongoing desire to defend a famous male friend whose career was torpedoed because of allegations of sexual assault. Baldwin’s defense of Allen also is noteworthy as his own career has been jeopardized over his role in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film, “Rust.” Baldwin remains under criminal investigation and he faces multiple wrongful-death lawsuits as a producer for “Rust” and as the handler of the gun that killed Hutchins.

If nothing else, the sentiments expressed by Ireland Baldwin feel much more in step with the mood of the country over the weekend. The Supreme Court’s split decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in a decision announced Friday, immediately led to near or total bans on abortion in half the U.S. states. Millions of women suddenly woke up to the reality that they had lost a legal right that had been guaranteed for nearly half a century.

Allen has become persona non grata in the film industry because of renewed focus in recent years on 1992 sexual abuse allegations made against him by his adopted stepdaughter, Dylan Farrow. People commenting on Baldwin’s post said, “That’s a big no,” and “I’ve supported u 100% thru everything. But Woody Allen? Bye.”

Ireland Baldwn’s TikTok video, captioned “I’m here for you,” was far more positively received. She told her 177,000 followers that she didn’t think women should feel it’s their responsibility to share their stories about having abortions in the wake of Roe being overturned, but the model and influencer said, “I am only now sharing my story because I want other women to feel supported and loved whether they want to share their own [experience] or not.”

Ireland Baldwin received thousands of likes and praise for first sharing that she was raped while “completely unconscious” as a teenager.  While Baldwin did not become pregnant from the assault, she said the incident “changed the course of the rest of my life.” She didn’t tell anyone it happened for years, except for a nurse that treated her.

“I didn’t even tell my own boyfriend at the time, not my parents, no one,” said Baldwin, whose mother is Kim Basinger.

Ireland Baldwin said the assault brought her so much pain and guilt that she “lost control of her life.” She said, “I drank a lot more, I partied a lot more, I self-medicated. I was in other abusive and toxic relationships and friendships.”

Seeing so many “brave” women discuss their own stories of unwanted pregnancies made Baldwin consider what would have happened if she had become pregnant as a result of the rape.

“It would have simply been traumatizing and impossible,” Baldwin said. She acknowledged that she has “medical resources, money and support that a lot of women do not have access to.”

As for the abortion, Ireland Baldwin said it happened when she was in a relationship. “At that point in time, I would say we were very unhappy together, and he made it clear that he never wanted kids or marriage,” Ireland Baldwin said. “He barely wanted to be in a serious relationship.

Baldwin said she could have perhaps put the baby up for adoption. She knew she definitely wasn’t ready to rear a child without her own financial security and “without a loving and supportive partner.

“That wasn’t going to work for me,” Ireland Baldwin added. “I chose me, and I would choose me again. It’s your life, it’s your choice.”

Another reason Ireland Baldwin said she chose to get an abortion is because she knows “exactly what it felt like to be born between two people that hated each other.” She appears to be referring to being a child caught in the middle of her parent’s high-profile divorce and custody battle in the 2000s.

During that extremely bitter battle, Alec Baldwin notoriously called Ireland a “thoughtless little pig” when she was 11 years old, in a seething 2007 voicemail he left for her when she missed a scheduled phone call. The voicemail was leaked to TMZ.

The “30 Rock” star apologized for the voice mail, and he and Ireland Baldwin have said they got through some rocky times and have had a good relationship. However, Ireland Baldwin recently admitted in a Red Table Talk interview that her father has never been able to engage in difficult emotional conversations.

On Sunday, Alec Baldwin showed some of that resistance to difficult emotional conversations by immediately dismissing anyone who wanted to challenge him for his support of Allen.

In a caption accompanying his video announcing his interview, Alec Baldwin said, “I have ZERO INTEREST in anyone’s judgments and sanctimonious posts here.”

In the video, Baldwin was defiant in other ways. He smiled playfully as he held up the cover of “Zero Gravity,” Allen’s collection of humorous writing to announce that he would be his Instagram Live guest. Baldwin also smiled, covered his mouth winsomely, then whispered Allen’s name, before also whispering, “I love you Woody.”

Alec Baldwin has been fiercely supportive of Allen in his time of turmoil.  When Dylan Farrow first came forward about the alleged abuse in 1992, Allen, who denies any wrongdoing, was able to easily brush off the allegations and to continue making movies, including two starring Baldwin, “Blue Jasmine” and “To Rome With Love.”

The #MeToo movement gave Farrow’s allegations new resonance. She and her brother, New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow, who helped break the first #MeToo stories, stepped up their calls for Allen to be held accountable. They also renewed their criticism of Allen starting an affair with their older sister, Soon-Yi Previn, while she was still a teenager and while he was in a relationship with their mother, Mia Farrow.

Amazon canceled a four-movie deal with Allen and some movie stars publicly vowed to never work with him again, but Baldwin stayed loyal. He has publicly defended Allen over the years on social media, calling the  criticism “unfair” and essentially saying that Allen is innocent until proven guilty.

In 2020, Baldwin severed his long relationship relationship with WNYC to produce his podcast, “Here’s the Thing,” because the producers expected him to ask Allen about the abuse allegations when interviewing him for the show.

Also that year, Baldwin blasted HBO for its explosive four-part documentary, “Allen v. Farrow,” which featured interviews with Dylan, Mia and Ronan Farrow on the sexual abuse allegations. Baldwin tweeted that the film’s revelations were “gossip not justice” and said, “If Dylan stands by her charges, then stop the gossiping.”

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