30 Rock star Alec Baldwin was joking around recently on The Late Show with David Letterman about getting himself a mail-order bride from the Philippines. His flip comedic statement might have been a mistake. In fact, he has angered a Phillipine Senator, who is hitting back hard with a prediction that the actor may face violence if he ever visits.
The actor is no stranger to controversy. The public divorce between Baldwin and actress Kim Bassinger became a ‘he said, she said’ war of words that played out on the world stage. It even caused a heated controversy involving his 13 year old daughter Ireland, when a taped conversation that the actor left on her cell phone hit the internet. In the audio tirade, he unleased a firestorm of rage on his daughter, calling her a thoughtless little pig.
Baldwin told Letterman that he would love to have more children. He explained to the talk show host that he is “thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point…or a Russian one.”
Philippine Sen. Ramon Revilla called Baldwin arrogant and labeled his remarks insensitive, uncalled for and an insult to millions of Filipinos. Revilla went on to say that it is against the law to buy a “mail-order” bride. In what sounded very much like a threat, he said, “Let him try to come here to the Philippines and he’ll see mayhem.”
Check out the Letterman Baldwin video below.