Hollywood actor, Alec Baldwin has deleted his main Twitter account days after his first sit-down interview since the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Gatekeepers News reports that Baldwin, who had two verified Twitter accounts, deleted the account @AlecBaldwin which he is always active on.
He had in November changed the account’s settings to ‘private’ before deleting it entirely, leaving only the second account, @AlecBaldwln__, where his most recent tweet is from October 19th.
Although, it is not clear why the actor decided to delete his account but the timing coincides with last week’s sit down TV interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos where he narrated what happened on October 21 on the New Mexico movie set of Rust.
In the interview which aired Thursday night, Baldwin noted that he did not pull the trigger that caused the gun to fire. He instead explained how he was rehearsing the scene with Hutchins which required him to pull the hammer back on the weapon. It was at that point, the gun went off.
‘I let go of the hammer, bang. The gun goes off. Everyone is horrified. They’re shocked. It’s loud,’ he said.
The actor who broke down in tears frequently said he was devastated by the shooting but he insisted he bore no responsibility for Hutchins’s death, because he did not bring live ammunition on to set, and so he did not feel any guilt.
He stated that moments after the shooting, he did not realize Hutchins had been hit, saying he originally thought she had fainted or had a heart attack, and it did not occur to him until around 45 minutes later that it could have been live ammunition put in the antique prop gun for their Western film, Rust.
“They kept saying, she’s stable – just as you disbelieve there was a live round in the gun, you disbelieve it’s going to be a fatal accident,” Baldwin told Stephanopoulos.
“At the end of my interview with the sheriff’s department, they told me ‘we regret to inform you she didn’t make it’ they told me then and there.”
He added: “Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who it is, but it’s not me.
“Honest to God, if I thought I was responsible I might have killed myself. And I don’t say that lightly.”
Dave Halls, the assistant director who was watching, confirmed Baldwin’s account, through his lawyer.
