Alec and Kim met on the set of The Marrying Man in 1990 and, coincidentally, got married three years later. They starred together in The Getaway in 1994. Their only child, daughter Ireland, was born in 1995. Kim and Alec announced their separation in 2000 and were divorced a couple of months later. In 2008, Alec wrote a book, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce, detailing his heated custody battle with Kim over their then 13-year-old daughter.