As the name of actor Alec Baldwin is all over the magazines and the social media due to the fatal shooting which took place on the set of the movie Rust which he both produced and played in, we go back to his life prior to the tragic incident and recall what made his relationship with his daughter Ireland Baldwin a hot topic back in the day, and how things are going between them nowadays.

Baldwin met his first wife, beautiful Kim Basinger, on the set of The Marrying Manback in 1990. According to Entertainment Weekly, director Jesse Reese recalled that Basinger saw photos of her and Baldwin placed next to each other at his office and said, “We are going to make a terrific couple.” Not long after that, the true started a relationship and married, welcoming daughter Ireland in their lives in 1995.

“He kissed me and then asked me if I wanted kids,” Basinger said an interview with People. She told him he was “psychotic” and that he should concentrate on the movie. He, on the other hand, called his friends and told them Kim was “driving me crazy” and that he would marry her.

Speaking to Variety in 2000, The Cooler star said, “The reason I fell in love with Kim is that she’s so odd. With that kind of beauty, this is a woman who could have married the head of a studio or a big director or a movie star who gets $20 million a movie.

“She could have everyone shining her ass 24 hours a day. She could have played ball. But she’s a very odd woman. I’ve done plays by Tennessee Williams; he was really able to enunciate certain southern characters. I’m from Long Island—I never really knew they existed. But my wife is one of those people—an absolutely maddeningly peculiar, exotic, lovely person.”

Their marriage seemed picture-perfect, but then in 2001, she filed for divorce. This came as a shock to the couple’s fans, but her father, Don Basinger, said this decision didn’t come out of the blue. “I’ve known for a year and a half that she was thinking about this,” he told People. “I love Alec, he’s the most kind and generous man I’ve ever known in my life, and he’s overcome some very difficult things. All but one: his anger,” he added. “This has happened publicly. But it’s when it started happening in front of Ireland that Kim finally said, ‘Well, I’m not going to put up with that.’”

At the time of their divorce, their daughter Ireland was only five. Sadly, she found herself in the middle of her parents’ nightmare custody battle which lasted for years. After racking up over $3 million in legal costs, they agreed on joint custody.