Ireland Baldwin says she would have been 'dead for sure' had her cousin not stepped in

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Ireland Baldwin believes she would have been 'dead for sure' had her cousin Alaia Baldwin not stepped in during her darkest hours.Baldwin opened up about her painful past, including entering rehab after an abusive relationship and struggling with substance use, during a wide-ranging interview on Red Table Talk.She also discussed her relationship with her father Alec Baldwin and admitted he was not the ideal person to turn to when it came to her anxiety. 'She saved my life': Ireland Baldwin believes she would have been 'dead for sure' had her cousin Alaia Baldwin not stepped in during her darkest hours'I've been through so much before I really got help,' Ireland told Willow Smith. 'I was in a really abusive relationship and I did go to a treatment center.

So I've been through a lot of different kinds of abuse, I have been in physical abusive relationships, and for so long I didn't want to call, just like I didn't want to call my anxiety anxiety, I didn't want to call the forms of abuse I had been through in a lot of ways.''I had been abusive to people.

Unknowingly, because I'm not hitting them or I'm not getting physical, but there was a lot of learning I had to do and a lot of acceptance of "Okay wait, that was abusive behavior." I was an abuser towards someone else.

But, at that time, I just hit a total breaking point,' Ireland said. 'And I was self-medicating with Xanax and I was drinking, and I have a lot of alcoholism anddrug addiction in my family,' Ireland explained. 'I had a night where I went way too far with the drinking and taking pills 'cause I couldn't even go to bed at night, I was so afraid of this relationship,' she said.'When I went into this drug and alcohol treatment center, I learned that I didn't have.