Ireland Baldwin dealt with tragedy in her younger years, but she isn't staying quiet about the subject. Opening up about her childhood in a Substack post titled "30, Flirty, and Surviving," the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger explained how she no longer stays in touch with some of her toxic relatives, who she called (via the Daily Mail ) "my narcissistic, unreliable, addict family members who I thought I needed in my life."

Ireland said she endured a "lonely childhood," without siblings or a two-parent household — Alec and Basinger divorced in 2002, when their daughter was 7 years old. Thus, she grew up feeling like she needed to go out of her way to please the people in her family. "For whatever reason, their validation and praise was meaningful to me," wrote Ireland, who

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