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Actor Daniel Baldwin’s wife, Joanne Baldwin, promised a judge on Wednesday that she would begin Alcoholics Anonymous meetings just after she finishes a 10-day sentence for violating probation on a drunken driving conviction.

“Obviously, alcohol has not been your friend,” Judge Bruce Shepley told Joanne Baldwin, who was jailed July 13 after her husband reported that she became violent after drinking and had threatened to kill him.

“I’ve been quite broken of late,” she said at a 20-minute hearing in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego. “I’m going to try to fix myself.”

Baldwin revealed she has used alcohol to medicate herself from “internal pain.”

The judge ordered her to wear an alcohol-monitoring device until he decides she no longer needs it, and said he would jail her again if the device alerted any alcohol use.

Daniel Baldwin was not present at the hearing and has filed for divorce and was granted a restraining order against her, saying his wife broke her probation “hundreds of times” after a second drunken driving conviction in June 2010.

Daniel Baldwin, 50, said police told him to take their two children out of the couple’s house on July 10, where he said the children witnessed his wife punching him in the face and threatening to kill him after watching a documentary on women who killed their husbands.

Baldwin said that statement that his children later asked him: “Is Mommy going to kill us?”