Alec Baldwin fought with his 14-year-old daughter, taunting, “I’m going to take some pills. I’m going to end this” — and then got furious when the panicked teen called 911, police and sources said.
The “30 Rock” star later blamed the teen’s mom — his ex, Kim Basinger — for yesterday’s bizarre chain of events.
Sources said Baldwin, 51, first got into a fight with daughter Ireland over the phone at around midnight — and made the girl nervous when he allegedly told her: “I’m tired of this. I’m going to take some pills. I’m going to end this.” Then he hung up.
Ireland tried calling her dad back a short time later, but he didn’t pick up the phone. Panicked, she called police.
Sources said the call came in as a “possible alcohol or drug overdose.”
Cops rushed to Baldwin’s Central Park West home at about 12:15 a.m. and took him to Lenox Hill Hospital.
Baldwin was looked at for about 45 minutes and released.
It turns out he hadn’t taken an overdose — just an Ambien pill to get some sleep, sources said.
But if he was agitated at being hauled off to the hospital, it was nothing compared to his anger toward Basinger — whom he allegedly accused of prompting the kid to call 911.
At one point, Baldwin “was heard complaining that his daughter was put up to do this by Kim Basinger to embarrass him,” a source said.
Another source close to the actor said pals think that Basinger made sure the incident became a media firestorm — and that the timing was suspicious.
“It’s strange that this would happen so close to the Oscars,” which Baldwin will host March 7, the source said.
The couple had a messy split in 2000 and a bitter custody battle. Basinger’s reps did not respond to a request for comment.
Baldwin “was agitated” over yesterday’s incident, a source said.
“He believed his wife was behind the call, that she convinced daughter that he could be suicidal and she should call the police,” the source said.
His spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, said: “This was a misunderstanding on one person’s part. Alec was quickly released from the hospital. He’s completely fine and is at work today.”
Hiltzik scoffed at the idea that the actor was suicidal or that he had done something to harm himself.
“He wouldn’t have been released in less than an hour if there was any real problem and concern,” Hiltzik said.
Baldwin was seen returning to his home at about 2 a.m. He declined to comment.
Later in the day, he returned to work shooting “30 Rock.”
Yesterday, a spokesperson for the Oscars said that the incident has had no effect on Baldwin’s standing and that that he would still be co-hosting the show with Steve Martin.
This wasn’t the first time that a telephone call from Baldwin to his daughter has gotten him in trouble.
In 2007, he berated the then-11-year-old in a voice mail that was leaked to the media.
In the message, he called the child a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”
He later said the message “horrified” him, and he apologized to his daughter.
When asked last year by Men’s Journal about the harsh words to Ireland in the message, he said, “I feel the consequences of that every day.”
In his 2008 book, “A Promise to Ourselves,” Baldwin said he considered suicide after news of the voice mail broke.
“The thought of jumping out the window of my apartment was with me every night for weeks,” he wrote.
He won his second straight Emmy Award as a lead actor for “30 Rock” last year, and recently co-starred with Meryl Streep and Martin in “It’s Complicated.” The big-screen comedy, coincidentally, is about a man who rekindles his relationship with his ex-wife.
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram, Perry Chiaramonte and Erin Calabrese