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Alec Baldwin erases Twitter account after ‘Rust’ interview | Alec Baldwin erases Twitter account after ‘Rust’ interview |
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Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has deleted his Twitter account after he claimed in an interview he hadn’t pulled the trigger of a gun that killed a cinematographer and therefore felt no responsibility for the incident. | |
The account @AlecBaldwin – which was used by both Baldwin personally and the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation – disappeared this week, shortly after ABC News aired the first interview the actor had given since fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie ‘Rust’. | |
The account had more than a million followers before it was removed, but attempts to view it now return a notice saying, “This account doesn’t exist.” | |
Another account owned by Baldwin, @AlecBaldwln____, remains online, with nearly 300,000 followers, but has not been updated since the shooting. | |
Baldwin killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the set of the Western movie on October 21, after a prop gun he was holding discharged a live round. According to a lawsuit filed against him, the actor had not been scripted to fire the gun. | |
In the controversial interview, which aired on ABC News last week, Baldwin insisted he had not fired the gun. | |
“The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” he said. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.” | |
Baldwin also told ABC News he didn’t feel responsible for Hutchins’ death, commenting, “I feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it isn’t me. I might have killed myself if I thought I was responsible, and I don’t say that lightly.” | |
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