Alec Baldwin says he doesn’t feel any guilt for the killing of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in a fatal shooting on the set of Rust in New Mexico.
In a sit-down interview with ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos, Alec Baldwin talked about the tragedy for the first time.
In the unedited, emotional interview, Alec described what occurred on the set in which Halyna and director Joel Souza were wounded, claiming that he “didn’t shoot them.”
Alec said he was “not to blame” for the tragedy, which has helped him get through “the most devastating period” of his existence.
During a marking rehearsal, in which Halyna guided him through how and where she wanted him to hold the gun for the scene they were about to shoot, he assumed he was being given a “cold weapon:”
George asked, “Do you feel guilt?” Alec responded: “I felt shock, anger, and sadness. Do you think I’m to blame?”
“No, no, I believe that there is… Someone is to blame for what occurred, and I can’t point a finger at anybody,” he stated.
“Honest to God, I may have committed suicide if I thought I was responsible. And I’m not speaking lightly when I say it.”
“I was over her for 60 seconds as the crew attempted to absorb what had happened,” he recalled after the accident.
“She goes down,” I reported. “I thought to myself, ‘Did she faint?'” “I never thought there was a live round in that gun until quite possibly 45 minutes to an hour later.”
“Neither the nurse nor the doctor was able to figure out,” he said. “Did she have a heart attack?” they all wondered.
“I was there for 60 seconds and she just laid there in shock.”
During a press conference, he said that he had been cooperating with detectives as part of a police investigation into the matter.
Alec expressed himself in a social media statement a few days after the occurrence of the fatal incident. His words expressed his sheer sadness.
“There are no words to express my shock and sorrow at the tragedy that claimed Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother, and highly respected coworker of ours,” he wrote on Twitter after learning about the accident.