Emmy-winning actor and reputed hothead Alec Baldwin is putting his actions into words. A memoir about his life, the ups and downs of his career and his struggles with addiction is due out next year, publisher HarperCollins said on Friday.

The book, entitled Nevertheless, is scheduled for launch in the autumn of 2016.

"Alec Baldwin is a larger-than-life talent with an astonishing range. And his life up to now has been far from dull," Jonathan Burnham, senior vice-president and publisher of Harper, said in a statement.

The star of the TV show 30 Rock will pen the book himself and include stories about his childhood in New York, his early career as a soap-opera star, his marriage and acrimonious divorce from actress Kim Basinger, and his second marriage, to yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, in 2012.

Last year Baldwin, 56, said he had considered leaving New York, partly because of how he has been depicted in the press.

After a series of headline-grabbing incidents, the actor was portrayed as a hotheaded bigot. His short-lived cable TV talk show Up Late with Alec Baldwin was canceled in 2013 after he made what a gay-rights group called a "homophobic" comment to a New York photographer. Baldwin issued an apology, but the network MSNBC dropped his show.

Reuters

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