Bad moments in celeb parenting
In 2002, the star held his struggling 9-month-old son, Prince Michael II, over his hotel balcony during a stay in Berlin. Jackson held his son with just one arm around the his waist over a metal railing.
In a statement, Jackson said through his lawyer that the incident was a "terrible mistake." The statement read, "I offer no excuses for what happened. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children."
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Courtney Love
Rocker and sometime actress Courtney Love has made outrageous behavior into a career.A 1992 article in Vanity Fair alleged Love used heroin while she was pregnant with her daughter, Francis Bean. Love initially denied the report, but in an interview with British Elle magazine published in 2008, she reportedly said, "My daughter knows I did drugs in my first trimester of pregnancy. She weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces when she was born and she was healthy."
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen divorced Mia Farrow and married her adopted daughter (his stepdaughter), Soon-Yi Previn. The affair was revealed when Farrow discovered nude photos of her daughter in Allen's apartment.Woody Allen is seen here with wife Soon-Yi Previn on the red carpet at the premiere of his film "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," on Aug. 24, 2010 in the northern Spanish city of Aviles.
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She's seen here arriving at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on Aug. 9, 2009, in Universal City, Calif.
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Baldwin later apologized, saying he'd lost his temper, and cited stress from his ongoing custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger as the real issue.
Alec Baldwin is seen here in New York, Dec. 9, 2009.
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In this image from video released by RadarOnline.com, Charlie Sheen holds one of his 23-month-old twins before they are removed from his Hollywood Hills home late Tuesday, March 1, 2011, in Los Angeles. At the time, Sheen had been living with two women, one reportedly a nanny and model, the other, a porn star.
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David Hasselhoff
Actor David Hasselhoff and daughter Hayley Amber Hasselhoff arrive for the "American Idol" Season 6 finale May 23, 2007, in Hollywood, Calif.On May 18, a judge restored Hasselhoff's right to visit his two teenage daughters after access was suspended over a videotape showing the recovering alcoholic apparently intoxicated.
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