My exah did something similar to my then 4 year old daughter my informing her that he was not really her dad......in a drunken walk around the yard.....what a jerk he was that day......your story reminded me of that day in my life so very long ago as today my little girl a 25......
some of the crap they pull stays with us for years and years and years.
Alcoholism/Addiction is such a selfish disease......