Ireland Baldwin is opening up about her experiences with abusive relationships and “unknowingly” herself perpetuating abusive behavior.
Baldwin, the daughter of actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, appeared on Facebook Watch on Wednesday’s episode of “Red Table Talk” with her mother to discuss the mental health issues they’ve both navigated, including anxiety, panic Including dealing with attacks and fear.
The 26-year-old model told co-host Willow Smith that at one point, she was in a “really abusive relationship” and has been the victim of other forms of abuse. “And I went to a treatment center,” Baldwin shared. “I’ve gone through a lot of abuse.”
Baldwin shared that she was hesitant to acknowledge and label her experiences of abuse.
“Like I didn’t want to call my anxiety anxiety,” she explained.
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Part of Baldwin’s healing journey includes recognizing the ways in which she has been abusive to the people in her life, she told Smith, which was complicated by her substance abuse at the time.
“I was unknowingly mistreating people, ‘Because I’m not hitting them or getting physical,’ Baldwin said. “I had a lot to learn and a lot of acceptance of, ‘Okay wait, that was abusive behavior: I was about to abuse someone else.’ But at that point, I totally hit breaking point, and I was self-medicating with Xanax, and I was drinking, and there’s a lot of alcohol and drug addiction in my family.
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Baldwin also talked about her struggle with cardiophobia, a cardiac anxiety disorder, according to the National Library of Medicine. “When[my heartbeat]starts getting really fast when I’m nervous, even a little nervous, or if I do exercise or anything, I start to panic to the point where I’m sure goes, no matter what one says, that I’m about to have a heart attack, and I had to go to the hospital,” she shared, adding that she’s made more than 20 hospital visits for the condition.
Baldwin continued, “The same paramedics have come to my house several times, and they say, ‘Here we go again with the girl with the fake heart attack.’ “It’s so crippling because everyone looks like, ‘You’re young and fit and healthy. You’re fine. You’re fine.’ … I want, like, decking people in the face who tell me I’m okay, you know? or to breathe.”
Basinger discusses her experience with agoraphobia, “a type of anxiety disorder in which you fear and avoid places or situations that may make you panic and leave you feeling trapped, helpless, or embarrassed,” of the Mayo Clinic. According to, such as “using public transport, being in open or closed spaces, standing in line, or in a crowd.”
After having an anxiety attack inside a health food store, Basinger said he didn’t drive for about seven months.
“I won’t leave the house,” Basinger told co-host Jada Pinkett Smith. “I wouldn’t go to dinner anymore. I couldn’t even have people over for dinner. We tried it, and it’s really awful to realize that it’s actually as (it) during those years.” had lived and didn’t know what it was. It’s like something completely shuts down inside you, and you have to re-learn everything.”
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When it comes to her support system, Baldwin said her cousin Alia Baldwin, model Hailey Bieber’s sister, was there for her during one of the darkest moments of her life.
“Hailee is like my sister too, but Alaya, she was the one who booked the ticket from New York, came to L.A. to see me,” Baldwin recalled. “She was like, ‘Something is happening. You know, I sense something.’ And he saved my life.”
She said: “I think I would have committed suicide or I would have died. Sure enough, I was very close. I could feel it, getting to that point, and it saved my life. He got me out of it.”
Basinger said that her ex-husband was not “emotionally or mentally available” to deal with Alec Baldwin’s issues of concern, especially in the midst of their “heavy duty, too loud” divorce. “Alec, you know, acts very differently in his life,” she said.
“But she’s someone who grew up in a family that would suppress her too, or tell her she’s too weak to feel that way,” Baldwin said, adding that her father also suffered “a lot” from anxiety.
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This isn’t the first time Baldwin has been sensitive about her personal life.
In April 2020, Baldwin hosted an Instagram Live series where he chatted with friends and strangers about his mental health. She said that she was inspired to start a social media chain because of her struggles.
“I know everyone is so sick and tired of Instagram Live by now, but I’m doing it because I have a severe anxiety disorder,” Baldwin said at the time. “I’ve noticed that over the past few nights my anxiety is actually getting worse at night, and it hit me last night.”
She continued: “I thought it would be really cool if we all came together and discussed these issues that we all deal with, and maybe something that works for one person might work for another. is.”
Baldwin’s parents Alec and Kim were married from 1993 to 2002.
In 2012, Alec married Hilaria Baldwin, and the two have six children. In March, the couple announced that they were expecting their seventh child together.
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Contribution: Charles Trepany
